Computer Programming

Cheat Sheets

These brief summaries on using various computer languages were each begun as a personal aid. Oddly, they took on a variety of flavors in spite of the similar intent and an effort to keep a common format. In particular, Python is such a good language that part of the cheat sheet is needed as a reminder of what remains wrong with it.

• Java Cheat Sheet
• Haskell Cheat Sheet
• Perl Cheat Sheet
• Python Cheat Sheet
• Tcl Cheat Sheet
• Visual Basic Cheat Sheet
• HTML Cheat Sheet
• XHTML Cheat Sheet

Comparison

• Frank Atanassow has an excellent outline of the interesting programming languages.
• a side-by-side comparison of programming languages Scheme, Python, Haskell, Perl, Java, C, and C++

Educational

• Programming Glossary for home school lessons.
• Programming Types for home school lessons.
• the Curry-Howard correspondence

C++

For most of my professional life I have developed compilers for programming languages including Fortran and C++. In 1991 Liant Software Corp. released the LPI C++ compiler which I developed with David Michaels and Tom Friedman.

Functional Languages

Functional programming languages are intriguing, and deserve to be the wave of the future. Knowing them is a key part of knowing programming.

• a derivation of the Y combinator
• functional programming at Glasgow University
• Haskell home page, hosted at Yale
• the comp.lang.functional FAQ, answers to questions about functional programming languages
• Paul Wilson's survey of garbage collection

Domain Specific Languages

• Compiling Signal Processing Code embedded in Haskell via LLVM, by Henning Thielemann