Lecture 1 | Programming Paradigms (Stanford)

Lecture by Professor Jerry Cain for Programming Paradigms (CS107) in the Stanford University Computer Science department. Professor Cain provides an overview of the course.
Programming Paradigms (CS107) introduces several programming languages, including C, Assembly, C++, Concurrent Programming, Scheme, and Python. The class aims to teach students how to write code for each of these individual languages and to understand the programming paradigms behind these languages.
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CS 107 Course Website:
www.CS107.stanford.edu/
Stanford University:
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[@Isayonelove]

Programming Methodology (CS106A) comes first, then Programming Abstractions (CS106B) and then Programming Paradigms (CS107).

[@mgg2665]

@@Isayonelove Wow! I witnessed a 7 year old comment being responded 7 years after, how many times in life you get to see that? hahahaha

[@Isayonelove]

@@mgg2665 i also replied to the original comment, which seems to be deleted now, within an hour of him posting the reply, seven years after i made the original.

[@mgg2665]

@@Isayonelove yes I meant by the author which is you (english is not my first language I don't know how to express myself clearly hahaha)

[@amaankhan6721]

@@mgg2665 me too

[@makara2711]

@@amaankhan6721 what programming language is used in this course?

[@jmjohnson42342]

I was not surprised to find that this course is very closely structured around the book Computer Systems: A programmer's Perspective by Bryant & O'Hallaron. The introductory systems course at my university uses this book, Stanford uses this book, pretty much every reputable university offering this class at least recommend it. I have read about half of the book from the first page and these lectures come off as a less-detailed guided tour through the chapters. So if you are serious about learning this material I recommend that you try to get the book and follow the course's tour through it.

[@MsGrooveOn]

Yeap the book is amazing!, I already bought paper version

[@codingwithelhacen990]

Thank you for pointing that out.

[@jhonelmerbustamante9296]

I already downloaded it. Thanks for you recommedation

[@mgg2665]

Thank you very much didn't know about it and probably wouldn't if it wasn't for you

[@Balboa_Rocky]

@@sebastianospino4861 Doesn't matter; knowledge and research must always be open- source and freely accessible.

[@df6148]

I really like how this teacher always stops to make sure that we understand what he explained. He used great examples to explain how scheme works (atm machines dual withdraw at the same time) and how they stagger processing at a high speed. I'm freelance learning to code so I find these videos very very useful. Thanks for posting them!

[@frankie_goestohollywood]

A gem of a professor!!!! Excellent !!! Thank you, Professor Jerry - you are one of the best !!!

[@bra5081]

Thanks to Stanford for sharing this ressource with us

[@WhatsACreel]

This lecture series is incredible, really amazing information. I've not come across some of the stuff in these lectures anywhere else on the net, cheers Stanford and Jerry Cain.

[@Equix3n]

He's a good lecturer. I can understand everything he's saying. I'm glad I found these lectures.

[@TurrettiniPizza]

Yes, that makes sense. Thanks for asking.

[@lockbert99]

He gives a solid 2 milliseconds for someone to say “it doesn’t make sense”.

[@nathanaelyang1543]

@@lockbert99 Yeah, exactly. You just have no chance to opposite.

[@moopcowonline3168]

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[@mikethegamedev]

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[@miscibi]

I LOVE U Jerry! I love the way you explain stuff. Perfect. Beautiful. Clear. Also your voice makes it all the better. :)

[@Zexanima]

I want to go to Stanford so bad. The teachers are amazing. I've learned a ton since I've started watching the Methodology courses.

[@ExtremeXperiece]

Watching this lesson 15 years later, I can validate his closing statement as true.

[@Metadaxe]

I've been really mystified by what "object-oriented" meant for like a decade now, until I watched this video and I understood immediately. So yes, Jerry, this made sense.

[@rodrigofonsecajr]

Muito bom, parabéns ao professor Jerry Cain e a universidade de Stanford ;) vou seguir todas as aulas

[@trommelbiel]

I love programming but I never did a formal course on programming except snippets here and there. You guys are lucky. I wish I was younger and ready to roll. But I will keep watching.Thanks Prof. Greetings from Germany.

[@zbdua]

These lectures are AWESOME, thank you Stanford and thank you Jerry from mexico !!!

[@biophr34k]

Beautifully explained, thanks for making this available!

[@hippityhoppity657]

it feels nice when i understand introductions

[@easyvoip]

I took a class in Stanford with Jerry. He is awesome!!!

[@brendanreeves9645]

As someone taking CS 107 right now, it's fascinating to see the same professor teaching what is now a very different course!

[@csm-csm]

Could you share new syllabus?

[@johnarthro5127]

you mean that he lowering the level ?

[@lepidoptera9337]

If they don't teach this now, then they are not teaching you well. ;-)

[@chelvan2]

This is very well explained, pretty much everything i learn from college the last 3 years are explained in 17 minutes, but there are the hand to hand work involved..

[@SquirrelGott]

6 minutes in and I'm feeling great about this guys ability to teach.

[@mohitsharma2376]

man ....... 1st time impressed by a programming teacher...!!!!!

[@rockstaraieee]

Thanks a lot Stanford for doing this.

[@timhawthorn7903]

I like this guy already. Just the right level.

[@crummmycheese]

Thank you Stanford and Jerry :)

[@beemer9108]

Does that make sense to people? Great explanation.

[@mnhvandz2980]

Loving going back to school (20 years later), Side note to my english teacher back in 1996 at ucaliptus lycee dz: you are the reason I left school too early, instead of teching me english you show me what it looks like to hate a person.

[@Ugenetic]

Gave this man a raise seriously. He knows how it works, and He knows how to convey it too. Try to read "the Arcane" wrote by Newton and Eisenstein? effing nightmare. The comparison of programming paradigms were too esoteric on Wikipedia. This man did it in several sentences. And he knew how to relate to the listener's experience.

[@Thunderjoe87]

I am listening to this guy in the background while I am writing some programs, and I realized that it is Johnny Bravo teaching this class!!

[@wavecollectivevideos]

This information is great ;) I live in Spain and I studied programming in Symfony PHP but C++ is the base of programming when you are programmer ;)

[@jamebozo]

Thanks for whoever added the text to this video : ) really helped.

[@CodeAndYou]

I like the ones on C and C++. They made me fall in love with C all over again after I entered the Java world as a software professional. But yeah, I must say, I did not enjoy these lectures too much when I was doing my graduation in computer science engineering back in 2010. I liked CS106A better, somehow.

[@anfield6321]

This is a legendary course

[@Permafrostrock]

Relying on online tutorials and/or handbooks is the actually big deal when learning new languages. You grasp the ideas and try something out. And it does come in handy if you learn about the computer itself and how information is physically processed. It took me more than a year now starting only from wirting webpages in HTML to do some very useful stuff in more than one language. However, it still takes more experience than this to be a full programmer. I am hydrogeologist, so ... :)

[@lollercakes9]

Such beautiful chalkboard skills, especially with that thick chalk. Love it.

[@pratiklondhe5167]

nice

[@slavikarg]

Thanks for sharing, the information is great quality wich is so hard to find these days on the nets.

[@cc300549]

I like this teacher my teacher doesn't even know much about the subject he just reads out of a book. and he will admit that to anyone.

[@abhishektul]

Don't look at negative responses it is very useful for students. Please, keeep it up

[@soulpipe]

I like the fact that when he says does that make sense he's refering to people as a whole!"!

[@webmessia]

Just incase you didn't know, anything executed on a machine, has been compiled into assembly first. Most device drivers are written in C but sometimes programmers modify the compiled code in order to optimise it. However virtually nothing is written mostly in assembly anymore

[@darius8214]

Try living in third world countries, these university lectures are a god send.

[@bashmogd4468]

no really , no big different between what ppl get in bachelor in third wolrd countries and what ppl would get in stanford , this same ,i guess the differnet would be in advanced Topic

[@ccgb92]

@@bashmogd4468 stfu

[@rileydavidjesus]

It's good for first world too

[@paulchen355]

@@rileydavidjesus this is very true.. my American college is not good enough

[@jaymahakaal5354]

After 13year still helpful... Thank you Oxford 😊

[@frankwillimasugwu6938]

Hi

[@saurabhkatiyar2704]

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[@salaschen]

Horray~~~ Thanks for sharing this wonderful course!!!

[@darkdudironaji]

@GoodCitizen44 I was always taught that assembly was one step above machine code where machine code is hex and assembly is an actual language you can compile into hex.

[@CjhEjdl]

God bless this guy

[@U6D65]

@canufi Yes, void foo() it's a procedure, because it's called only for side effects. But i'm not sure if it would be useful to have 2 names for very close notations. One more thing, void foo() returns void which is a c type, but is not a value.

[@coolcodingtips4624]

Thank you stanford!

[@KagimuBrian]

very insightful lecture, thank you

[@eileenBrain]

great teacher, easy to understand.

[@deepakkumare0164]

Hats off to you sir👌👌👌

[@Tapajara]

Jerry points out a lot of deficiencies in C. I realized these deficiencies while beginning my programming career in 1985. Since then I have been designing a new programming language that corrects them and adds a lot more. The new language is ϕPPL.

[@shrek22]

this guy, hero status

[@johng5261]

this guy is pretty good, he takes his study and teaching seriously. His students definitely benefit.

[@maxemore]

Wow I wish my professors were as clear with their words as this guy

[@medoelkorsan]

wheew why i never heard of that before i knew about MIT open course ware it is is the first time to see that it is great i enjoyed it :)

[@MarcelGirgis]

Of course! This is great.

[@noevelasquez5109]

Very HELPFUL.....Thanks so much !!!!!

[@sebster3gmail]

it does make sence if you know what programming is all about.

[@TremendousSax]

@darkdudironaji Assembly has mnemonics to symbolize the op-codes available for a particular architecture. Using a more human readable form than hex (which is a higher level representation of the electrical phenomena that make computers possible) could be considered "one step above machine code," but since each assembly instruction has a one-to-one mapping with a machine code instruction, they're essentially equivalent in degree of abstraction.

[@JoseTorres-ez9zh]

Keep up your with your studies.

[@mohamoudsheikh6387]

totally makes sense doc

[@python-javascript]

Great video!

[@irvingc4508]

I took a course in C Programming and understand what pointers and function calls... but I thought this was supposed to be an introductory course. If I didn't take that course, I'd be lost in the sauce right now.

[@chelvan2]

overall, i do understand the whole lecture, thanks.. basically, the first few minutes talks about OOP, Object Orientation, how to easily control the flow of your program better. since being a good programmer require good programming habits, they have to reuse the same technique in all types of difference language, if you understand the difference between C and C++, you can reuse the OOP skills in all other languages..

[@tamyboy1]

waow what a solid teacher man

[@AlejandroHernandez-ce8qs]

man i just love how ppt seem to be extinct in these lectures. Go Board!!

[@PrincessOPD_Utah]

Let’s get it!!!

[@abdulvajidkt]

What a session !!!

[@PalashHalderADI]

Marvellous!!!

[@bobbygnosis]

For clarification of Assembly and Machine Codes go ahead and read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence." Pirsig discusses rather a lot about the relationships between programs, machines and humans. More importantly he goes into detail about the implications ragarding the confusions between Assemblies and Machine Codes. This is a subtle and very interesting problem being indirectly addressed here. Does that make sense?

[@KianSheik]

does that make sense?

[@SFConifer]

The videos are transcribed by Stanford students. They are fast typists and do a valuable service. Can't fault them if they are not familiar with the jargon.

[@securityfreakdotnet]

Awesome! Wish you were my teacher

[@IslandCave]

@PlasteredDragon Seems like a very compiler dependent statement to me. pointer resolution, addresses, pointer members

[@mogisfubared]

Assembly IS machine code, it just replaces the opcodes with mnemonics and converts the addresses and values from binray.

[@U6D65]

@canufi Because you can replace a function call in a expression with the value which it returns. ex: int a = 1 + foo(); and foo() returns a int. PS. Don't get me wrong i like functional languages(especially Haskell) but there it's some logic in here too.

[@eihodge]

I love that all of this is available for free.

[@kumarprateek238]

someone shared this on reddit www.infocobuild.com/education/audio-video-courses/computer-science/computer-science.html it has the list of several videos

[@kumarprateek238]

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[@ZaFrostPet]

awesome course. assemble part was kinda hard. pointers and multithreading parts were fan. functional programming now makes sense, but i still feel myself lost there( maybe need more practice and will probably try MIT Structure and Interpretation). Jerry Cain is a great teacher!

[@yan2292008]

grt stuff !!! thnks "stdford "a lot fr dis !!! frm india !

[@Oblivic]

does anyone have the exercises/solutions to go along with this course? I couldn't find any. and the course link in the description is broken.

[@ohaRega]

It does make sense to people

[@bekobekic]

Great lecture! Greets from Europe/Vienna

[@sham277]

you'd have to buy the software to slow it down though right? ps -if you're a complete ( and absolute utter newbie to everything computer related but wanna try learning something , start with this vid? )

[@greatgrahambini]

I believe he is talking about the runtime heap and stack, not the data structures with the same names.

[@pronmaster09]

sounds like a blast.

[@dankbot420]

imperative/procedural paradigm functional paradigm I wonder how "concurrent programming" relates to multicore processors or clustering? PVM/MPI

[@lepidoptera9337]

He has some good points, but at the end of the day everybody "programs in C" because what we want from a program are the side effects, i.e. the execution of the functions. It doesn't matter how we package these functions and how we call them. The goal of programming is always about an algorithm to solve a problem (and solving that problem is the actual goal, but never mind that). What makes this a quality class is that he is teaching you what the compiler does with your code, because that is important, no matter which paradigm you use and in what language you write. This looks like a much better class than some others I have seen (even from Stanford professors).

[@j_m_b_1914]

"You've probably heard of a language called Perl. It's not a very pretty language." Ouch.

[@johng5261]

its not pretty? You think it is? :)

[@landonpowell6296]

It looks like a mixture of regular expressions and random symbols. It's the opposite of good language design.

[@niilespunkari8832]

@ 13:45

[@jsmithmultimediatech]

It's funny you should say that about Regular Expressions, actually is where the whole idea for that came from developed by Larry Wall even Reg Ex's like Perl itself was lol, such as the acronym PCRE Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PHP I believe uses that).

[@kkk0071234]

Is there a way to access the assignment questions and/or handouts?

[@salaschen]

@aliancemd and "encrypting language" when introducing python which is a "scripting language" :)

[@DevITIS7]

Just a minor correction. Assembly isn't actually 0s and 1s, that's machine code. C/C++ --> Assembly --> Machine code (runtime specific). :)

[@sunnz]

@mlampo yes, yes of course it does.

[@Kansyn]

does this lectures teach programming from begginer or do people there already have to know the languages?

[@jayeshjodhawat5143]

Course Transcripts: see.stanford.edu/materials/icsppcs107/transcripts/ProgrammingParadigms-Lecture01.pdf

[@divyanterance4357]

rarely does teachers actually care if the students undersand "Does that make sense to you ppl". I Love When They Do.!

[@smozoma]

if you're not a native english speaker, subtitles can actually help out a lot, especially for technical words that may be unfamiliar..

[@yellowbeans01]

What hs did you go to? We got visual basic and that was only useful on teaching me about standards.

[@techbytes4u492]

very helpful video

[@Neme112]

Does that make sense to people?

[@thinkGrey_]

loved it.

[@lowellriggsiam]

I took software programming at ITT, I wised up after 6 months, a teacher that didn't show up for class, a teacher that couldn't remember what assignment he was requesting, and one who couldn't keep control of his class. Stanford looks better.