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    Programming Languages

    University of Virginia via Udacity

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    Overview

    This class will give you an introduction to the fundamentals of programming languages. Key concepts include how to specify and process valid strings, sentences and program structures.



    Why Take This Course?

    Take this class and learn how to build your own simple web browser complete with the ability to parse and understand HTML and JavaScript.

    Syllabus

    String Patterns

    Finding and specifying classes of strings using regular expressions

    Lexical Analysis

    Breaking strings down into important words

    Grammars

    Specifying and deconstructing valid sentences

    Parsing

    Turning sentences into trees

    Interpreting

    Simulating programs

    Building a Web Browser

    Interpreting HTML and JavaScript

    Wrap-up

    Exam testing your knowledge

    Taught by

    Wes Weimer

    Tags

    python usa north america programming core

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    Anonymous
    3.0 2 years ago
    Anonymous is taking this course right now.
    Taking the course now, after completing Udacity CS101 and Learn Python the Hard Way. The course is much less thorough than CS101 and many concepts are poorly explained.

    For example, after explaining briefly what a token is, the instructor will show a 3 minute video with him using a Lexer to go through tokens, (without any explanation of how it works, why he wrote it that way, what the code does, how it interprets tokens, or anything else), then assign homework problems where you have to make them. You end up rewatching the videos several times and looking for content outside of the class.

    You'll learn, but don't expect explanations as thorough as in CS101 and expect to do self learning just to keep up.
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    Anonymous
    5.0 5 years ago
    Mihai completed this course.
    This course is great. I've written this comment to get it's ratings up, it's unfair that it has only 3.5. If you have at least 2 years of programming under your belt then this is the course for you. The assignments can be a bit hard but not impossible as long as you read them carefully, a habit that I don't have which caused me a lot of pain in this course. A great course prof. Grossman is great and in my opinion if you didn't liked this course then you don't have enough programming experience to take it.
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    Anonymous
    5.0 6 years ago
    Anonymous completed this course.
    I really enjoyed this class. It was difficult and a lot of work, but it really helped me understand the differences between programming languages and some of the trade-offs between them. It is not an introduction to programming course, you do need to understand basic programming, especially recursion. The languages taught are SML, Racket, and Ruby. In summary, a great course taught by a great professor. Definitely recommend this course and any other course Prof Grossman would teach in the future.
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    Anonymous
    1.0 5 years ago
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    It is interesting how Dan Grossman starts the class by telling you that all assignments are described precisely and with minimum words. Actually the assignments are easy (for experienced programmers) once you get around the terrible instructions. I asked a friend whose job it is to 'translate' government speak to plain english and he thought a lot of the descriptions were terrible. There were similar complaints on the forums. Maybe Dan Grossman needs to consider and take on some of the comments rather than just arrogantly dismissing them outright. I would not recommend this course at all.
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