The following is an *approximate* week-by-week course schedule:

PLPF: Practical Foundations of Programming Languages

Week 1:

2010-09-02 (R): Introduction to FP via ATS

Week 2:

2010-09-07 (T): Introduction to Programming with Theorem-Proving
2010-09-09 (R): Mathematical Induction; More Introduction to PwTP
Reading Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 in PLPF

Week 3

2010-09-14 (T): Theorem-Proving in ATS; Structural Induction
2010-09-16 (R): Untyped Lambda-Calculus (I)
Reading Chapter 3 and 4 in TAPL

Week 4

2010-09-21 (T): Untyped Lambda-Calculus (II)
2010-09-23 (R): Untyped Lambda-Calculus (III)
Reading Chapter 5 and 6 in TAPL

Week 5

2010-09-28 (T): Untyped Lambda-Calculus (IV)
2010-09-30 (R): Simply Typed Lambda-Calculus (I)

Week 6

2010-10-05 (T): Simply Typed Lambda-Calculus (II)
2010-10-07 (R): Simply Typed Lambda-Calculus (III)

Week 7

2010-10-12 (T): No Class (Substituting Monday's Schedule)
2010-10-14 (R): Simply Typed Lambda-Calculus (IV)

Week 8

2010-10-19 (T): dependent datatypes: lists
2010-10-21 (R): dependent datatypes: Braun trees

Week 9

2010-10-26 (T): Linear views: read and write through a pointer
2010-10-28 (R): No Class

Week 10

2010-11-02 (T): Linear views: arrays and lists
2010-11-04 (R): Midterm

Week 11

2010-11-09 (T): Linear views: singly-linked lists
2010-11-11 (R): Using linear types in practice: cairo for 2D graphics

Week 12

2010-11-16 (T): System F
2010-11-18 (R): Programming in System F (I)

Week 13

2010-11-23 (T): Programming in System F (II)
2010-11-24 (R): No Class (Thanksgivings)

Week 14

2010-11-30 (T): Continuation (I)
2010-12-02 (R): Continuation (II)

Week 15

2010-12-07 (T): Recursive Sum Types; reading chapter 11, chapter 21
2010-12-09 (R): (Office hour)

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