CS 5314 Programming Languages

Spring 2004

Tuesday, 7:00pm-9:45pm, NVC Room 322

CRN 15862

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 (after January 20, 2004) the link Programming Languages -Spring 04. 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 310
7054 Haycock Road
Falls Church, VA 22043

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

Office Hours: Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm or by appointment

Textbook:

Robert W. Sebesta, Concepts of Programming Languages, Sixth Edition, Addison Wesley, 2003, ISBN 0-321-19362-8.

Other materials:

Supplemental material: http://www.aw.com/sebesta (please see the textbook for details)
Course web site (Blackboard): http://www.learn.vt.edu/
Course web page: http://www.cs.vt.edu/~gracanin/course/cs5314/

Grading:

Midterm exam (closed book): 25% (March 16, 2004, 7:00pm-9:00pm)
Final exam (closed book): 25% (May 7, 2004, 4:00pm-6:00pm)
Project implementation: 20% (May 3, 2004, by noon)
Project report: 5% (May 3, 2004, by noon)
Project Presentation: 5% (May 4, 2004, 7:00pm-9:45pm)
Homework: 20% (March 1, April 19, 2004, by noon) - two homeworks 10% 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 20, 2004	Lecture 1: Preliminaries and Evolution of the Major Programming Languages	Chapters 1 and 2
2	January 27, 2004	Lecture 2: Describing Syntax and Semantics	Chapter 3
3	February 3, 2004	Lecture 3: Lexical and Syntax Analysis	Chapter 4
4	February 10, 2004	Lecture 4: Names, Bindings, Type Checking, and Scopes	Chapter 5
5	February 17, 2004	Lecture 5: Data Types	Chapter 6
6	February 24, 2004	Lecture 6: Statements	Chapters 7 and 8
7	March 2, 2004	Lecture 7: Subprograms	Chapters 9 and 10
8	March 9, 2004	SPRING BREAK	N/A
9	March 16, 2004	Midterm Exam	Chapters 1-10
10	March 23, 2004	Lecture 8: Abstract Data Types and Encapsulation Constructs	Chapter 11
11	March 30, 2004	Lecture 9: Support for Object-Oriented Programming	Chapter 12
12	April 6, 2004	Lecture 10: Concurrency	Chapter 13
13	April 13, 2004	Lecture 11: Exception Handling and Event Handling	Chapter 14
14	April 20, 2004	Lecture 12: Functional Programming Languages	Chapter 15
15	April 27, 2004	Lecture 13: Logic Programming Languages	Chapter 16
16	May 4, 2004	Project Presentations	N/A
16	May 7, 2004	Final Exam	Chapters 1-16