Background

For Unit 2, we selected a number of references which will help you go beyond just knowing the syntax of the language. teaching material 1 is a talk given at a conference in 2017 which goes over the common programming paradigm and explains the similarities and the differences. teaching material 2 is the first lecture of course at Stanford university which aims to teach several programming languages. The lecture is a general introduction to the course, it stresses the intellectual value of learning a programming language which is to study the paradigm they represent, so do not focus on the details but more on how the lecturer makes the link between a language and its paradigm.