Answer as many questions as you can.
- When processing arrays in a functional style to do something like getting the sum of the squares of the even numbers, which of the following is the correct pipeline?
$\bigcirc$ map then filter then reduce
$\bigcirc$ reduce then filter then map
$\bigcirc$ reduce then filter then map
$\bigcirc$ filter then map then reduce
$\bigcirc$ map then reduce then filter
- What are the six dimensions of programming language study we’ll be undertaking in this class? Just list them, don’t explain them.
- “Foundations of Programming Languages (FPL)” is one of the 17 knowledge areas identifed by the ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curriculum. Why is it in some sense more fundamental to computer science than the others, including the venerable "Algorithmic Foundations (AL)"?
$\bigcirc$ Algorithms are very messy and include creative aspects that are hard to formalize.
$\bigcirc$ Programming Language Foundations deals with how data and computation are formally expressed; without a means to do so, there would be no computer science.
$\bigcirc$ The study of algorithms says nothing about their correctness but this is the overriding concern in the study of programming languages.
$\bigcirc$ The study of algorithms is done without concern for efficient execution.
- Match the decade with the big computational developments in computer science. (Draw a line connecting each decade with the corresponding development.)
1960s Web
1970s Multicore and Big Data
1980s Gen AI
1990s Structured Programming
2000s Dynamic Languages rise again
2010s OOP
2020s High-level languages become dominant
- What are the four main theories of computation and, in 10 words or less, their primary concern?
- Logic deals primarily with _______________. (You have to get this word exactly right)
- Which of the following are accurate translations of “Either all programming languages suck or C++ is god tier”?
$\Box$ $\forall p. Lp \supset Sp \lor Gc$
$\Box$ ($\forall p. Lp \supset Sp) \lor Gc$
$\Box$ $\forall p. Lp \supset (Sp \lor Gc)$
$\Box$ $\forall p. (Lp \supset Sp \lor Gc)$
$\Box$ $\forall p. Gc \lor (Lp \supset Sp)$
$\Box$ $\forall p. (Gc \lor Lp \supset Sp)$
$\Box$ $Gc \lor \forall p. Lp \supset Sp$
- Which is the best and correct translation of “English is the most widely spoken language in the world but less than 40% of its speakers are native speakers”.
$\bigcirc$ $\forall x. Ne \gt Nx \supset pr(Fpe \mid Spe) \lt 0.4$
$\bigcirc$ ($\forall x. Ne \gt Nx) \land (\forall p. Spe \supset pr(Fpe) \lt 0.4)$
$\bigcirc$ $\forall x. Ne \gt Nx \land (\forall p. Spe \supset pr(Fpe) \gt 0.6)$
$\bigcirc$ $\forall x. Ne \gt Nx \land pr(Fpe \mid Spe) \leq 0.4$
- Write (in the logic notation used in this class) an encoding of “It is possible that something evil caused all evil things except itself”.
- Write (in the logic notation used in this class) an encoding of “Tanya runs quickly and explosively”.