CSE-341: Programming Languages

Summer 1999

Personnel     Meetings     Textbooks     Mailing List     Mail archive
Course Topics     Syllabus     Projects     Exams     Other Resources

Personnel

Instructor: Greg J. Badros
Office: 226-D Sieg Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday 9-10am; Wednesday 4:30-5:30pm; or by appointment
email: badros@cs.washington.edu
anonymous email form: badros@cs.washington.edu

Teaching Assistant: Ken Yasuhara
Office: 232 Sieg Hall (NT Lab #1)
Office Hours: Monday and Thursday, 9:30-10:30am; or by appointment
email: yasuhara@cs.washington.edu
anonymous email form: yasuhara@cs.washington.edu

Teaching Assistant: Sean C. Sirutis
Office: 232 Sieg Hall (NT Lab #1)
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 1-2pm
email: ssirutis@cs.washington.edu

Teaching Assistant: Chun Yu
Office: 232 Sieg Hall (NT Lab #1)
Office Hours: Thursday, 2:30-3:30pm; and Friday, 9:40-10:40am
email: chunyu@cs.washington.edu

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Meeting Times and Locations

Lectures: MWF 10:50-11:50am, EE1-045

Section AA: Th 8:30-9:30am, EE1-042
Section AB: Th 10:50-11:50am, EE1-003

N.B.: Sections will meet as regularly scheduled on the first week (Thursday 24-June-1999).

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Textbooks

Required

• Ravi Sethi, Programming Languages: Concepts & Constructs, 2nd Ed.

Recommended (In decreasing order of recommendation)

• Abelson and Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.
• K. Arnold and J. Gosling, The Java Programming Language.
• Simon Thompson, Haskell : The Craft of Functional Programming, 2nd Ed.
• Christiansen et al., Perl Cookbook
• Griswold and Griswold, The Icon Programming Language

N.B.: A.J.T. Davie's An Introduction to Functional Programming Systems Using Haskell is out of press so we will not be using it. The Thompson book, above, replaces it.

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Class Discussion Mailing List

All students are expected to regularly read the class discussion mailing list. To subscribe send a message to cse341-request@cs.washington.edu with no subject and "subscribe" in the body. To send a message to everyone on the list (including Greg, Ken, Sean, and Chun), send mail to cse341@cs.washington.edu. (Do not send subscription requests to cse341@cs.washington.edu!)

Hypermail archive of mail to cse341@cs

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Course Topics

Syllabus (includes reading assignments for the quarter, and grading policy)

Outline:

• Introduction (postscript 6-up)
• Functional programming
  • Scheme
  • Haskell
• Relational/logic programming
  • Prolog
• Mid-term exam
  • Mid-term thoughts lecture notes (postscript 6-up)
  • Exam instructions email post
• Object-oriented programming
  • Smalltalk
  • Java
• Other interesting languages
  • Icon
  • Perl
• Other topics
  • Parameter-Passing and Memory Allocation Models (postscript 4-up)

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Projects and Non-reading Assignments

Submission guidelines

• Assignment 1: Scheme Warmup
  • sample solutions
• Assignment 2: Scheme Boolean Formulas
  • sample solutions for simplify and normalize
  • alternate sample solution for simplify
  • test data (simplify and normalize calls)
• Assignment 3: Haskell
  • sample solutions
  • test data
• Assignment 4: Prolog (and a little Haskell)
  • sample solutions, free-response question
  • sample solutions, Prolog predicates
  • alt. sample solutions for bus predicates
• Assignment 5: OO Design and Smalltalk
  • Grading notes as Powerpoint slidees (postscript 6-up)
  • Sample solution by Eugene Hsu and Peter Phan
• Assignment 6: Java Invaders Game
  • "Where's the code?" slide from section
  • in-lab demo schedule for Friday, 20 August 1999
  • links to your applets

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Exams

• Exam 1, Friday 23-July-1999     Solutions
• Exam 2, Friday 20-August-1999 (in-class, last day of classes)     Solutions

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Other General Resources

• UW Computing facilities for CSE-341
• Yahoo's Programming Languages page
• Mark Leone's Programming Languages Research pages
• Gary Leaven's Language self-study page
• Getting started with Unix

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