CIS 554 Resources
Fall 2011 , David Matuszek

Textbook

Programming in Scala, Second Edition

Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, Bill Ventners

I think this is an important language, and you should buy this book and keep it.

As for the other languages, there is plenty of documentation online.

In general, you should use the latest versions of all your software.The links below may or may not be up to date, so if you find newer versions of anything, please let me know.

General

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages: http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html
How Not to Write FORTRAN in Any Language: (In author's view, "writing Fortran" = "writing bad programs")
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039535
Revenge of the Nerds: (How languages are becoming more Lisp-like)
http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html
The Theory and Practice of Concurrency (600 pages): http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CBYQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.comlab.ox.ac.uk%2Fbill.roscoe%2Fpublications%2F68b.pdf&ei=fM7uS77XDIT78Ab6x9D9Cg&usg=AFQjCNEIgpQyEtBndLXhQMp-J102CatdqQ&sig2=qGULMDlXJPp8aKAEBj8nZw (PDF)
Java, Don't Make Long Term Plans: http://blog.borud.no/2010/10/java-dont-make-long-term-plans.html

Prolog

SWI-Prolog 5.10.1 download: http://www.swi-prolog.org/download/stable
Adventure in Prolog: http://www.amzi.com/AdventureInProlog/advfrtop.htm
SWI-Prolog 5.10 Reference Manual (PDF): http://www.swi-prolog.org/download/stable/doc/SWI-Prolog-5.10.1.pdf
COMP9814 Extended Artificial Intelligence: Prolog Extension Material
: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~billw/cs9414/notes/prolog/ext-prolog.html

REBOL

Download REBOL/View: http://www.rebol.com/download-view.html
REBOL Documentation: http://www.rebol.com/docs.html

Clojure

Clojure downloads and getting started: http://dev.clojure.org/display/doc/Getting+Started
Clooj is a simple and very basic IDE. If you are familiar with a professional IDE such as Eclipse, NetBeans, or IntelliJ IDEA, there are good Clojure plugins for these.
Clojure - Functional Programming for the JVM: http://java.ociweb.com/mark/clojure/article.html

Casting SPELs in Lisp (Clojure version): http://www.lisperati.com/clojure-spels/casting.html
Quick Ref for Clojure Core: http://clojuredocs.org/quickref/Clojure%20Core
"Official" Clojure Cheat Sheet: http://clojure.org/cheatsheet (also available as PDF)
Other cheat sheets: http://devcheatsheet.com/tag/clojure/
The Eternal Flame (Julie Ecklar): Music at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-OjTPj7K54
Lyrics at http://www.songworm.com/lyrics/songworm-parody/EternalFlame.html
The Nature of Lisp: http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html
Revenge of the Nerds: http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html
Clojure: Functional Programming: http://clojure.org/functional_programming

Scala

Trait Suite: (A good starting point for reading about scalatest)
http://www.scalatest.org/scaladoc/doc-1.0/org/scalatest/Suite.html
Trait ShouldMatchers (the really cool stuff): http://www.scalatest.org/scaladoc/doc-1.0/org/scalatest/matchers/ShouldMatchers.html