Question 1 @ 2025-01-14 19:12

What is the proper way to address the guy who is teaching this class?

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• A “Mr. Barzilay”
• B “Doctor Barzilay”
• C “Professor Barzilay”
• D “Doctor Professor Barzilay”
• E “Eli”
• F Any of these
• G Depends on real life or in writing (emails).

Question 2 @ 2025-01-14 19:20

Here’s a dad-joke:

• This sentence is longer than “this sentence”.

There’s a whole bunch of these things:

• Why is “abbreviated” such a long word?
• Why is “short” longer than “long”?
• Why is “big” smaler than “small”?
• Why is “syllable” longer than “word”?
• Why is “million” the same length as “hundred”?

What makes these sentences funny (at least in a dad-joke-sense)?

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• A They all put antonyms in the same context.
• B They misuse quotation marks.
• C Scare quotes are always funny(ish).
• D They confuse syntax and semantics.
• E This question is in no way related to PL and therefore deserves no answer.

Question 3 @ 2025-01-14 19:23

This class works on how many levels?

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• A

  Two levels: syntax and semantics.

• B

  A ladder of levels from easy at the beginning to advanced near the end of the semester.

• C

  Two levels: 4400 for undergrads and 5400 for masters.

• D

  Nonsensical question: it will be whatever number of level that makes sense.

Question 4 @ 2025-01-14 19:24

What’s a good example of the two levels that we’re talking about?

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• A

  English and French.

• B

  English and American English.

• C

  Lisp and Scheme.

• D

  Racket and a language that you will implement in it.

• E

  Some “plumming for dummies” book and your broken toilet.

• F

  Cats and dogs.