Class Notes

CSCI 360 - Survey of Programming Languages.

Description -- This course will provide students with a solid foundation for understanding the fundamental concepts of programming languages. It will include coverage of concepts and constructs from languages like C#, Java™, JavaScript™, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, XHTML, XSLT, and JSP. In addition to traditional imperative languages, aspects of functional programming, including Scheme and ML, and of logic programming, including Prolog, will be presented.
When; 1:15 - 2:30, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Spring 2008.
Where; Hendrix McRey 317.
Office Hours; by prior arrangement.
Text; Concepts of Programming Languages, 8th Edition, by Robert W. Sebesta.
Course Syllabus (revised) (pdf).
Homework Assignments;
1. Assignment #1 (pdf), due 1/29/2008.
2. Assignment #2 (pdf), due 2/05/2008.
3. Quiz #1 answer key (pdf).
4. Assignment #3 (pdf), due 2/21/2008.
5. Assignment #4 (pdf), due 2/26/2008.
6. Assignment #5 (pdf), due 3/25/2008.
7. Assignment #6 (pdf), due 4/8/2008.
8. Assignment #7 (pdf), due 4/15/2008. The prolog source code is here, along with an RPM for gprolog.
9. Quiz #2 answer key (pdf).
10. Assignment #8 (pdf), due 4/24/2008.
Lecture Slides;