| COP4020: Programming Languages | up ↑ |
| Spring Term 2009 |
The course calendar summarizes the important dates for the term, including examination and assignment due dates for all students in the course. It will be updated, as necessary, throughout the term.
Please see the Notes for links to class notes, and Assignments for links to assignments.
Examinations dates are firm. Other details of this calendar -- i.e., the topics that are discussed at the class meetings, and the programming assignments -- will be revised as the term progresses. Programming assignments and electronic turn-ins of term papers are due at midnight on the day shown. Exercises and hard-copy turn-ins of homework and term papers are due at the start of class on the date shown.
Aspects of this plan that are likely to change include:
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| Day | Date | Topic | Read | Due | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | |||||
| Tue | 06 | Jan | Class organization, introduction to Programming languages and Hmwk #1 | Chapter 1 | |
| Thu | 08 | Jan | Functional programming and Scheme | ||
| Week 2 - | |||||
| Mon | 12 | Jan | Demonstration of Scheme & Emacs | Hmwk #1 (language example recognition) | |
| Tue | 13 | Jan | Scheme, introduction to Hmwk #2 and Prog #1 | 11.1-11.2, 11.5 and notes | |
| Thu | 15 | Jan | Scheme | ||
| Fri | 16 | Jan | Hmwk #2 (Exercises on Scheme, due electronically, by midnight) | ||
| Week 3 | |||||
| Mon | 19 | Jan | M.L. King Day | no class | |
| Tue | 20 | Jan | Compilation, assembly, interpretation, and linking | ||
| Thu | 22 | Jan | Syntactic and lexical specification, parsing, intro. to Hmwk #3 | Prog. #1 (scheme functions) | |
| Week 4 | |||||
| Mon | 26 | Jan | Review and drill on regular expressions and CF grammars | ||
| Tue | 27 | Jan | Parsing: Recursive Descent and LL(1) | notes | |
| Thu | 29 | Jan | Semantic processing, attributed grammars, intro. to Hmwk #4 | 4.1-4.3, 4.7 | Hmwk #3 (regular expressions, BNF grammars, LL(1) parsing) |
| Week 5 | |||||
| Mon | 02 | Feb | Review and drill on attributed grammars | ||
| Tue | 03 | Feb | Ada | notes | |
| Thu | 05 | Feb | Intro. to Prolog lexical units & Prog #2 | notes | Hmwk #4 (attributed grammar exercises) |
| Week 6 | |||||
| Mon | 9 | Feb | Ada tutorial & examples | ||
| Tue | 10 | Feb | Introduction to logic programming and Prolog | notes | |
| Thu | 12 | Feb | Continuation of Prolog | ||
| Week 7 | |||||
| Mon | 16 | Feb | student presentations | ||
| Tue | 17 | Feb | Prolog, introduction to Hmwk #5 and Program #3 | Prog #2 (lexical analyzer, in Ada) | |
| Thu | 19 | Feb | Review for midterm exam | ||
| Week 8 | |||||
| Mon | 23 | Feb | student presentations | ||
| Tue | 24 | Feb | Midterm examination (all material to this point) | Exam | |
| Thu | 26 | Feb | Exceptions | 8.5, notes | Hmwk #5 (Prolog exercises) |
| Week 9 | |||||
| Mon | 02 | Mar | student presentations | ||
| Tue | 03 | Mar | Review of examination results | ||
| Thu | 05 | Mar | Introduction to Prog. #4 and the Ada language features that it uses. | Prog. #3 (Prolog parser, in Ada) | |
| Week 10 -- SPRING BREAK | |||||
| Mon | 09 | Mar | Spring Break | no class | |
| Tue | 10 | Mar | Spring Break | no class | |
| Thu | 12 | Mar | Spring Break | no class | |
| Week 11 | |||||
| Mon | 16 | Mar | student presentations | ||
| Tue | 17 | Mar | Axiomatic semantics, precondition-postcondition proofs | Baker notes and U. of Iowa notes | |
| Thu | 19 | Mar | Prog #4 (Symbol table and AST builder for Prolog, in Ada) | ||
| Week 12 | |||||
| Mon | 23 | Mar | student presentations | ||
| Tue | 24 | Mar | Names, scopes, bindings | ||
| Thu | 26 | Mar | Introduce Hmk #6 and Prog. #5, do walk-through of Sketchy Prolog Interpreter | ||
| Week 13 | |||||
| Mon | 30 | Mar | Help session: proofs using precondition/postcondition logic, Prolog interpreter | ||
| Tue | 31 | Mar | Names, scopes, bindings | Hmk #6 (axiomatics) | |
| Thu | 02 | Apr | Parameters | ||
| Week 14 | |||||
| Mon | 06 | Apr | no class | no class | |
| Tue | 07 | Apr | Contour diagrams | ||
| Thu | 09 | Apr | Parameter passing modes | Prog #5 (Mini-Prolog Interpreter, in Ada) | |
| Week 15 | |||||
| Mon | 13 | Apr | no class | no class | |
| Tue | 14 | Apr | Indexing structures: arrays, switch statements, and virtual method tables | Hmk #7 (Scopes, parameters, control structures datatypes) | |
| Thu | 16 | Apr | Data types | ||
| Week 16 | |||||
| Mon | 20 | Apr | no class | no class | |
| Tue | 21 | Apr | Review for final exam | ||
| Thu | 23 | Apr | SUSSAI forms, continue review | Paper Please turn this in twice, using both links for the assignment on campus.fsu.edu.* |
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| Week 17 - Final Exam Week | |||||
| Thu | 30 | Apr | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 301 Love | Final Exam |
* You are required to turn in the report twice, using both Turnitin.com and SafeAssign services, as part of a pilot study to help FSU determine which of these services it will use in the future. The software will enforce the deadline strictly.
| T. P. Baker - ($Id) |