CS 5314 Programming Languages

Spring 2003

Monday, 4:00pm-6:45pm, NVC Room 324

CRN 16326

The course web site is available on the Virginia Tech Blackboard server at http://www.learn.vt.edu/. Once you log on using your Virginia Tech PID and password, in the section My Courses follow the link Programming Languages Spring-03. The link is present only if you are registered for the course. This page contains overall information about the course, as follows:

Course Description
Instructor
Textbook and other materials
Grading
Graduate Honor System
Lecture Schedule

Course Description:

Indepth investigation of the principles of programming systems, not necessarily restricted to programming languages, both from the point of view of the user implementor. Algorithms of implementation, syntax and semantic specification systems, block structures and scope, data abstraction and aggregates, exception handling, concurrency, and applicative/functional/data-flow languages.

Instructor:

Denis Gracanin, Ph.D., P.E.

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Virginia Tech
Northern Virginia Center, Room 419
7054 Haycock Road
Falls Church, VA 22043

Phone: (703) 538-8378
Fax: (703) 538-8348
Email: gracanin@vt.edu

Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 2-4pm

Textbook:

Robert W. Sebesta, Concepts of Programming Languages, Fifth Edition, Addison Wesley, 2002, ISBN 0-201-75295-6.

Other materials:

Supplemental material: ftp://ftp.aw.com/cseng/authors/sebesta/concepts5e/PowerPoint/
Course web site (Blackboard): http://www.learn.vt.edu/
Course web page: http://www.nvc.cs.vt.edu/cs5314/
JavaCC tool: http://www.webgain.com/products/java_cc/

Grading:

Midterm exam (closed book): 25% (March 10, 2003, 4-7pm)
Final exam (closed book): 25% (May 5, 2003, 4-7pm)
Project implementation: 25% (April 28, 2003, by noon)
Project report: 5% (April 28, 2003, by noon)
Project Presentation: 5% (April 28, 2003, 4-7pm)
Homework: 15% (February 17, March 24, April 21, 2003, by noon) - three homeworks 5% each.

Graduate Honor System:

Please review Virginia Tech’s Graduate Honor System, for more information see:
http://filebox.vt.edu/studentinfo/gradhonor/
All assignments are individual, no collaboration is allowed. You are not allowed to receive help from others. You are not allowed to provide help to others.
You can discuss course topics and related issues as long they do not relate to homeworks or project specifics.
When in doubt, consult with the instructor first.
All code will be checked by a tool that detects similarities and warns about possible plagiarism.

Lecture Schedule:

Week	Date	Topic	Textbook
1	January 13, 2003	Lecture 1: Preliminaries and Evolution of Programming Languages	Chapters 1 and 2
2	January 20, 2003	Lecture 2: Describing Syntax and Semantics	Chapter 3
3	January 27, 2003	Lecture 3: Lexical and Syntax Analysis	Chapter 4
4	February 3, 2003	Lecture 4: Names, Bindings, Type Checking, and Scopes	Chapter 5
5	February 10, 2003	Lecture 5: Data Types	Chapter 6
6	February 17, 2003	Lecture 6: Statements	Chapters 7 and 8
7	February 24, 2003	Lecture 7: Subprograms	Chapters 9 and 10
8	March 3, 2003	SPRING BREAK	N/A
9	March 10, 2003	Midterm Exam	Chapters 1-10
10	March 17, 2003	Lecture 8: Abstract Data Types	Chapter 11
11	March 24, 2003	Lecture 9: Support for Object-Oriented Programming	Chapter 12
12	March 31, 2003	Lecture 10: Concurrency	Chapter 13
13	April 7, 2003	Lecture 11: Exception Handling	Chapter 14
14	April 14, 2003	Lecture 12: Functional Programming Languages	Chapter 15
15	April 21, 2003	Lecture 13: Logic Programming Languages	Chapter 16
16	April 28, 2003	Project Presentations	N/A
17	May 5, 2003	Final Exam	Chapters 1-16