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CSCI 169 Class Notes Listing Page

Additional Class Notes

• CSCI 169 Notes -- Introduction II
• CSCI 169 Notes -- Fortran-90/95/2003
• CSCI 169 Notes -- LISP
• CSCI 169 Notes -- COBOL
• CSCI 169 Notes -- Data Encapsulation and Object-Oriented Programming
• CSCI 169 Notes -- C Derivative Languages
• CSCI 169 Notes -- SNOBOL
• CSCI 169 Notes -- Icon
• CSCI 169 Notes -- Python
• CSCI 169 Notes -- MPI

• Alphabetic Index of Notes (From 1995)
• Definition of Terms (For Final) (From 1995)

General Language References

• Yahoo Programming Languages reference page (Links to various languages)
• The Language Guide (Univ. Michigan)
• 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall (Written in 1440 different computer languages [number accurate as of 6 February 2012])
• Hello World! Project (Sample programs to produce "hello world" in about 200 computer languages.)
• Computer Languages History
• A Humorous Look at Programming Languages
• The Lesser Known Programming Languages (Humorous) (Try Google for other similar sites.)
• Languages Not in the Commercial Language SIG (Humorous)
• Online Programming Tutorials
• Computers (Ron Heuse Software Development Site) (Collected Information on Approximately 2350 Computer Programming Languages) (Scroll down to under the Mahjong Games graphics)
• The Language List (An attempt to enumerate all known programming languages [more than 2500])
• The Retrocomputing Museum (Collection of references to antique languages)
• Dictionary of Programming Languages
• Programming (Language) Paradigms
• http://www.investintech.com/programmingfun ("Programming Fun! The Many Languages of Computers")

• Catalog of Free Compilers and Interpreters
• Free Compilers and Interpreters
• TIOBE Programming Community Index (This gives a monthly ranking of the popularity of computer languages. A subpage gives information as to how the rankings are determined [in general by counting the number of hits of search engines].)

Miscellaneous Information about Computers

• Obsolete Computer Museum (A Nostalgia Trip)
• Timeline 2003 - Milestones in Computer History

Fortran

• Pascal/FORTRAN/C++ Overview/Review
• Essentials of Fortran-90/95/2003 (Smolarski, SJ)
• High Performance Fortran (HPF) Forum Home Page (Fewer active sites are available with the availability of Fortran-2003 and MPI)
• The F Programming Language Homepage (Subset of Fortran-90 and HPF)
• The Fortran Company (They sell a CD for around $49 containing a compiler, three books, and auxiliary routines, for either Linux or Windows.)
• Fortran Tutorials (From The Fortran Company.)
• Fortran 90 Tutorial
• Fortran and Fortran-90 resources on the Internet (Yahoo link)
• Fortran 90 for the Fortran 77 Programmer (Tutorial)
• http://www.netlib.org is a repository of mathematical software and other information. One can browse its "Netlib" respository and find eispack (eigenvalue/vector software) or linpack (linear algebra package) and download Fortran code for use.
• Pioneers of Fortran (NY Times Article--June 13, 2001)
• Fortran for Environmental Science by Brian Hanson (Univ. Deleware). A very complete, easy to read manual for Fortran 95 for non-CS students.

• SilverFrost Fortran 95 compiler (free to non-commercial users)
• G95 -- Project to create a free, open source Fortran 95 compiler and run-time libraries

Cobol

• The COBOL Center

• Fujitsu COBOL Free Compiler via "Compilers for Windows Platforms"
• COBOL User Groups (COBUG)

SNOBOL4

• "Eliza" Source Code in SNOBOL4 (Interactive Counseling Program)

Icon

• The Icon Programming Language (Homepage)
• A tutorial for the Icon programming language
• An Overview of the Icon Programming Language; Version 9 (PDF file -- Acrobat Reader Needed -- 10 pages long)

MPI (Message Passing Interface)

• MPI Forum Homepage
• MPI Standard
• MPICH - A Portable MPI Implementation
• MPI Tutorials Listing (hosted by LAM)
• MPI Tutorial (Univ. Notre Dame -- LAM [Local Area Multi-Computer])
• MPI 1.2 Binding Listings (LAM) (This lists all MPI functions and gives information on the parameters for C. C++ and Fortran.)
• MPI Tutorial by William Gropp (Html version)
• LAM/MPI Parallel Computing One-step Tutorial: MPI: It's easy to get started.

LISP

• NYU Linguistics Lab LISP Tutorial
• Introduction and Tutorial for Common LISP (John Hopkins University)
• The Scheme Programming Language (2nd Ed.), R. Kent Dybvig (Scheme is a dialect of LISP.)

Matlab/Octave (Environment)

• Octave homepage
• Octave Links Page
• Octave Quick Reference Card (3 pages -- in Postscript Format) (for v. 1.1.0)

• Matlab Introduction
• Control Tutorials for Matlab (Carnegie Mellon, Univ. of Michigan)
• Matlab Primer (Version 2.0 -- html)
• Matlab Primer (Version 3.0 -- PDF format -- Acrobat Reader needed)
• Matlab Primer (Version 3.0 -- PDF format -- Reduced size, 4 pages per sheet -- Acrobat Reader needed)

Java

• Java Tutorials (Sun Microsystems)
• Brewing Java: A Tutorial (Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
• CSCI 10 -- Java Notes 4 -- File I/O
• More Java Documentation (Sun Microsystems)
• Yet More Java Documentation

C

• International Obfuscated C Code Contest (World's most difficult C code to interpret.)

C++

• C and C++ resources on the Internet (Yahoo link)
• CSCI 10 (C++) Class Notes (Smolarski, SJ)

Ada

• Lovelace -- Tutorial for Ada95

Python

• www.python.org (official Python site -- compiler available for download)
• Python Tutorial (from python.org)
• Dive Into Python site (diveintopython.org)
• Instant Python (With links to translations into other languages, e.g., Italian, Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese.)
• (Link to more than 200) Python Tutorials
• One Day of IDLE Toying. A visual (screen captured) introduction to using IDLE (The Integrated Development Environment) for Python. (With links to translations into other languages, e.g., Spanish, Chinese, Italian, French, German.)

Other notes (if there are any more at this point!) will be available as soon as they are ready.

This page is maintained by Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J. dsmolarski "at" scu.edu
Last updated: 6 February 2012.