The SCHEME Programming Language. MIT Press, 2002. 2. Robert W. Sebesta.
Concepts of Programming Languages. (8th Edition). Addison-Wesley. CSI 311: ...
CSI 311: Principles of programming languages Paliath Narendran
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Office Hours
Paliath Narendran
LI-95B
Ben Carle
LI-95D
M 3–4pm, Tu 2–3pm
Ning Ying
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Textbooks
1. R. Kent Dybvig. The SCHEME Programming Language. MIT Press, 2002.
2. Robert W. Sebesta. Concepts of Programming Languages. (8th Edition) Addison-Wesley.
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Evaluation
Midterm I
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Feb 27, 2008 (W)
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12:35 to 1:30 PM
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20%
Midterm II
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April 2, 2008 (W)
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12:35 to 1:30 PM
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20%
Final
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May 15, 2008 (Th)
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10:30am to 12:30 PM
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40%
Homework
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20%
If your homework grade is 0, you will get an E in the course regardless of your performance in the exams.
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Outline
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Syntax of programming languages
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regular expressions
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context-free grammars, BNF
Subprograms — procedures, functions
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parameter passing
Semantics
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Static — attribute grammars
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Dynamic — axiomatic semantics
Declarative programming
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Functional programming — SCHEME
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Logic programming — PROLOG
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Milestones
1957 1959 1960 1964 1971 1972 1975 1984 1995
FORTRAN LISP ALGOL 60, COBOL BASIC PASCAL C, PROLOG SCHEME, ML C++ JAVA
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Compiling
Source program
Compiler Machine code Input
Computer
Output
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Compiling
Source program
Syntax checker
Code generator
Machine code Input
Computer
Output
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Interpreting
Source program Input Interpreter
Output
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Interpreting
Source program
Syntax checker
Input Interpreter
Output
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Compiling vs Interpreting
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compiled languages — C, C++, Java
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interpreted — Perl, Scheme, Maple
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A Sample Program
#include int x; int foo (int y) {x = x + 1; return (x + y); }
main() { x = 10; x = foo(x); x = foo(x); cout
