[BangPypers] [OT] Online offering of the course "Introduction to Programming Languages"

Palak Mathur palakmathur at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 08:05:54 CEST 2012


I have also registered for the course and planning to do quizzes, minor and
major projects.

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Palak Mathur
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:08 AM, kracekumar ramaraju <
kracethekingmaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have registered for the course, planning t solve the quiz n write python
> interpreter.
>  On Aug 23, 2012 10:05 AM, "Anand Chitipothu" <anandology at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Sateesh Kumar <sateeshpyper at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Slightly OT, Brown university is offering their course  "Introduction
> > > to Programming Languages" [1] available
> > > for free on the Web.
> > >
> > > Interestingly second and third months of the course would cover Python
> > > in detail.
> > > >From the course outline: [2]
> > >
> > > "In the first month of the course, we will go through the semantics
> > > engineering process in the
> > >  small: you will be given an illustrative little language built by us,
> > > whose meaning you must completely decipher.
> > > (We use the phrase “decipher” intentionally: most real-world languages
> > > are under- or poorly specified,
> > > so almost all of them at least slightly resemble hieroglyphics.) In
> > > the remaining two months, you will repeat
> > > this exercise in the large: namely, for Python. By the end of the
> > > semester, then, a completely successful student will
> > > have an authoritative knowledge of Python and will have created a
> > > full, independent implementation of it.
> > > Naturally, we don't expect very many students to be completely
> > successful."
> > >
> > >
> > > reg,
> > > sateesh
> > >
> > > 1. http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/OnLine/
> > > 2. http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/
> >
> > Anybody taking course?
> >
> > I'm planning to take this and solve all quizzes, minor project and
> > major project.
> >
> > If there is enough interest, we can try to have a BoF session at PyCon
> > India 2012.
> >
> > Anand
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