# NPRG014

Supplementary materials for the course of "Concepts of Modern Programming Languages" (NPRG014).

Lessons

Lesson 1 - 29th September 2024

Agenda

• Language dynamism - typing, casting, object construction, method invocation
• Functional programming in OO languages
• Scripting

Preparation

• Bring your laptop to the lecture with the listed software pre-installed
• Grab Groovy 4.0.x or later from the groovy download page (http://groovy-lang.org/download.html). Make sure the "groovyConsole" command-line tool can be started.
• Install Java JDK 11 or higher (if you don't have it installed) from the Java download site
• Checkout this repository to get the source code of the examples and homework assignment that will be used during the lecture

Resources

• Exercises to work with during the lesson are located in the “lecture0929/exercises” folder
• The homework is to be found at “lecture0929/homework”
• The “lecture0929/slides” holds the slides for the lecture

Lesson 2 - 6th October 2024

Agenda

• Dynamic meta-programming
• Intro into Domain Specific Languages
• Domain specific languages
• Builders

Preparation

• Same as for Lesson 1
• Do a fresh checkout of this repository to get updated source code for examples and homework assignments

Resources

• Exercises to work with during the lesson are located in the “lecture1006/exercises” folder
• The homework is to be found at “lecture1006/homework”
• The “lecture1006/slides” holds the slides for the lecture

Lesson 3 - 13th October 2024

Agenda

• Static meta-programming
• AST transformations

Preparation

• Same as for Lesson 1
• Do a fresh checkout of this repository to get updated source code for examples and homework assignments

Resources

• Exercises to work with during the lesson are located in the “lecture1013/exercises” folder
• The homework is to be found at “lecture1013/homework”
• The “lecture1013/slides” holds the slides for the lecture

Lesson 4 - 20th October 2024

Agenda

• Bytecode
• Statically-typed languages (Scala) - Part I

Preparation

• Grab and install SBT (http://www.scala-sbt.org/)
• Install Java JDK (if you don't have it installed) from the Java download site
• Checkout this repository to get all examples
• Go to lecture-scala/exercises-homework and run "sbt compile" to download all necessary packages (Scala and related libraries)

Resources

• Exercises to work with during the lesson and the homework are located in the lecture-scala/exercises-homework” folder
• The “lecture-scala/slides” holds the slides for the lecture

Lesson 5 - 27th October 2024

Agenda

• Statically-typed languages (Scala) - Part II

Preparation

• Same as for Lesson 4

Lesson 6 - 3rd November 2024

Agenda

• Statically-typed languages (Scala) - Part III

Preparation

• Same as for Lesson 4

Lesson 7 - 10th November 2024

Agenda

• Statically-typed languages (Scala) - Part IV

Preparation

• Same as for Lesson 4

Lesson 8 - 24th November 2024

Agenda

• Concurrency abstractions in modern languages ** Dataflow ** Fork-join ** Actors ** Parallel collections ** Agents

Preparation

• Same as for Lesson 1 (Groovy, JDK)
• Do a fresh checkout of this repository to get updated source code for examples and homework assignments

Resources

• Exercises to work with during the lesson are located in the “lecture1124/exercises” folder
• The homework is to be found at “lecture1124/homework”
• The “lecture1124/slides” holds the slides for the lecture

Lesson 9 - 1st December 2024

Agenda

• Introduction to prototype-based languages (IO)

Preparation

• Download IO interpreter from http://iolanguage.org/binaries.html
• Checkout this repository to get all examples

Lesson 10 - 8th December 2024

Agenda

• Advanced types in TypeScript

Preparation

• If you do not have Node.js installed, get the LTS version from https://nodejs.org (but any reasonably recent version should work) and check the README.md in the lecture materials for more details.
• You will need an editor that does type checking in background. WebStorm (from JetBrains) or VSCode are good choices, but anything will do.

Resources