CS558 Programming Languages --- Winter 2012

Index

• Index
• Instructor
• Teaching Assistant
• Description
• Format
• Goal
• Notes
• Course materials

Sergio Antoy
office: FAB 120-26
e-mail: antoy@cs.pdx.edu (checked daily)
phone: 503-725-3009 (checked weekly)
homepage: http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~antoy/
office hours: TR 1:00-1:45 PM and by appointment
class time and location: see the CS schedule

Contact point for everything related to the course except homework, unless you have a homework issue that you were not able to resolve with the TA .

There is no teaching assistant this term because of low enrollment.
The instructor is the contact point for everything related to homework.

This course is an introduction to the study of programming languages. It presents both general principles and specific details about the definition, implementation and use of historical and contemporary languages. It combines both theory and application of programming language features. Diverse programming paradigms, such as functional, logic and object-oriented, will be discussed in class and used in exercises.

Regular lectures. Weekly assigned readings. Weekly homework including programming assignments. Midterm and final exams.

Understanding, learning, and analyzing, in a disciplined and comprehensive way, concepts inherent to programming languages. Knoledge of key issues and goals in the design, implementation and use of programming languages. Some literacy in programming languages. Ability to code a problem into a program using different programming paradigms.

The expected preparation is a bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent background.

CS558 is a required course for the MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science and it is the foundation of several other graduate courses. Students are encouraged to take CS558 early in their program of study.

In addition to personal equipment, all the students are expected to have a departmental computer account. See http://www.cat.pdx.edu/ for obtaining the account.

• Textbook Programming Languages: Principles and Practices, 3rd Edition Louden/Lambert, ISBN10: 1-111-52941-8, ISBN13: 978-1-111-52941-3, 2012.
• Schedule by topic (will be updated during the term).
• Homework (same as the schedule).
• Skills and Knowledge necessary to pass this course.
• Resource page for coding and executing programs in various languages.
• Instructions to access recorded lectures when available.
• Midterm Fall 2006 and Final Fall 2008 sample exams.
• Evaluations scores and comments Fall 2011.

Assignments, midterm and final exams will contribute approximately 15%, 35%, and 50% of the grade, respectively. You will get an A with more than 80% total points and a B with 60% to 80% total points.

Contact: antoy@cs.pdx.edu
Thu Feb 16 13:11:26 PST 2012