CS341 Programming Languages

CS341 Programming Languages (Fall 2009)

Pre-requisites: CS142 or equivalent
Instructor: Christino Tamon
Lecture: Science Center 354 TR 8:00-9:15pm
Office hours: TR 9:15-11am, 2:15-3pm, Science Center 373

Syllabus
This course examines the major paradigms and principles underlying modern programming languages. The course focuses on imperative, functional and logic programming paradigms. The rationale of each paradigm is discussed along with typical programming idioms used with them. Programming exercises and assignments are used to illustrate relevant concepts.

Grading: Assignments and Quizzes 40%, Midterm 20%, Final 40%

Text
Michael L. Scott, "Programming Language Pragmatics," 3rd edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2009.

Other texts (not required):

Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, "The C Programming Language," 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall [on ERC reserve].
Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, and Karl Knight, "Concrete Abstraction" [available online].
Michael Covington, Donald Nute and Andre Velino, "Prolog Programming in Depth," Prentice-Hall, 1997 [on ERC reserve].

Objective & Outcome:
The main objective of the course is to describe and compare several major paradigms of programming languages, which include the imperative, functional, and logic paradigms. The specific outcomes include:

Knowledge of implementation issues behind programming languages.
Working knowledge of some programming languages which represent the different paradigms covered above (for example, C, Scheme, and Prolog).

Requirements & Policies:

Although attendance is not mandatory, students are responsible for all course materials covered in lectures and any exams given during class periods. Students that need to make up missing course work must provide the required Clarkson official exempt form. All students must submit their own work; the exchange of ideas are encouraged but ultimately the submitted work must be the student's own. Please refer to the Clarkson University Regulations for more guidelines on academic integrity and related matters.

Schedule (updated regularly)

Tuesday	Thursday
August 26 Course administration. Introduction: basic paradigms (PROC, OOP, FUNC, LOGIC). Plan: functional paradigm; logic paradigm; (re)visit procedural paradigm and study implementation issues.	August 28

LABS

Lab 1: Numbers

ASSIGNMENTS

Links

Dev-C++ (allows C as well)
MIT Scheme and DrScheme: these will be installed in the COSI/ITL labs (Linux and Windows)
SWI Prolog and GNU Prolog
C programming; ANSI C grammar.
C++ grammar.
SICP.
Art-of-Prolog.