Course Overview

• Languages are built on common
  • Paradigms
  • Building blocks
• Can easily learn languages with these patterns
• Gaining fluency in Python
• Proficiency in Haskell and Prolog
• Exam evaluation:
  • Understanding key programming concepts
  • Analyze never-seen-before languages
  • Ability to write correct code in focus languages

Roadmap

1. FP w/ Haskell
2. Deep dive into Python
3. Data Structures, Types
4. Functions
5. OOP
6. Control Structures
7. Logic w/ Prolog

What is a Programming Language?

• An abstraction layer to communicate with a computer.
• A set of symbols to communicate with a Turing Machine
• Many others…

First high-level:

• Shortcode