CS415 Programming Languages
Fall 2005

Course information

Instructor:		Aaron Bloomfield, Olsson Hall 228D
E-Mail:
Office Hours:		M/W/F 11-noon
Graduate TA:		Chris White,
TA's Office Hours:		Tu 4-5:30 and Th 5-6:30 (in Thornton stacks)

Course Description (from the undergraduate record) : Presents the fundamental concepts of programming language design and implementation. Emphasizes language paradigms and implementation issues. Develops working programs in languages representing different language paradigms. Many programs oriented toward language implementation issues. [ABET Course Objectives]

Prerequisites: CS216 and CS333 with grades of C- or above.

Course Text: Scott, Michael. Programming Language Pragmatics. Morgan Kaufmann: 2000. Textbook Errata

Class Meetings: MWF 10:00-10:50am in MEC 216

Final Exam: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 9:00 - 12:00 in MEC 216 (our regular lecture room).

Links

Syllabus
Computer Languages History
Anonymous Feedback
Cygwin, Emacs (download)
Fotran
- History
- Fortran 77 tutorial
Previous midterms: Spring 05, Fall 03, Spring 02

Slide Sets

Daily Announcements
Course introduction
Chapter 1
Fortran (notes, demo1.f, demo2.f, demo3.f)
Algol (readings: part 1, part 2, part 3, Goto considered harmful)
Chapter 2: Intro to compilation, Scanning, Parsing
Scheme and functional programming, OCaml
Names and scopes
Semantic analysis
Prolog and logic programming (prolog examples, truthtable generator)
Control flow
Types
OOP and Smalltalk
Subroutines
WWW/Internet. Scripts: modpow (view the script, which creates the HTML page), ajax.html, ajax script. Handout of these 4 pages of HTML and Perl code. C# lecture by John Knight.
Parallel programming
C# lecture given by John Knight
Debuggers, profilers, analysis tools
Aspect oriented programming (slide set by David Matuszek)
Design patterns
INTERCAL (Programming reference)

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