Computer Science 3740 - Programming Languages
Course Outline -   Fall 200

Time of Lectures:	TR 10:50-12:05		Room: PE 256
Instructor:	Dr. M. Mouhoub		Office: D520
Office hours:	Tue : 10:00-10:30, Fri : 10:00-12:00    or by appointment
Text:	Concepts of Programming Languages ,
	4th edition, by Robert W. Sebesta
Method of Evaluation:	Assignments and projects	30%
	Midterm Exam (Th Oct 25)	30%
	Final Exam (Wed Dec 12 : 2:00 - 5:00)	40%
Grade Assignments:	F<50<=D-,D,D+<60,C-,C,C+<70<=B-,
	B,B+<80<=A-,A,A+.

Topics(as time permits)

Part I : Preliminaries and Overview on Programming Languages

• Introduction to Programming Languages
• General Overview

Part II : Logic and Functional Programming

• Logic Programming
• Functional Programming

Part III : Concepts and Implementation of Programming Languages

• Evolution of the Major Programming Languages
• Describing Syntax and Semantics
• Names, Bindings, Type Checking and Scopes
• Data Types
• Expressions and the Assignment Statement
• Statement-Level Control Structures
• Subprograms
• Implementing Subprograms
• Abstract Data Types
• Support for Object-Oriented Programming
• Concurrency
• Exception Handling
• Functional Programming Languages

 

Resources for students

1. Prolog
2. Lisp
3. Caml
4. ddd
5. Midterm exam (Fall 2000)
6. Final exam (Fall 2000)

Notes and Policies
 
1. Information about the course appears in this Web page. Changes will be made here and/or  posted to the course mailing list (cpsc3740a@uleth.ca).
2. Late assignments are not accepted for any reason and will receive 0 points, except for extensions granted to the entire class.
3. Basic concepts on recursivity,ADTs  List, Stack, Queue and Tree and OO concepts are strongly recommanded for this course.
4. You can discuss the assignment with other students but MAY NOT read, copy, or exchange other student's code.
5. Out-of-class help is available from your Professor and  can take one of the following ways of communication:
1. face to face: please respect in this case the office hours posted in this web page and on office door,
2. through email to the instructor or using the course mailing list,
3. or on the course newsgroup.
6. Attendence is expected in lectures. Little time is available to assist those who have

     missed relevant classes.
7. The midterm exam is open-book and will be given during the regular lecture meeting time in the regular

     classroom (Th Oct 25, 10:40-12:05, PE 256).
8. The final exam is closed-book and will be cumulative, but with more emphasis on material covered after the midterm.

 

About the slides

Notes of  Part I and Part II  are in Compressed("gzipped") Postscript format (.ps.gz).

• For MS-Windows you need to install :

1. Ghostscript:  the interpreter of the Postscript language
2. and  gsview :  the  corresponding previewer .

The above tools + tools for other systems/platforms are available in the following web page  : Ghostscript and GSview


2001-18-08