ITEC 380: Week 1

• Hello


• Syllabus


• Why take ITEC 380
  • Some interesting programs:
    • JavaFor.java,
    • Numbers.java
    • What do these imply about language design?
  • Different programming paradigms
  
  
• Reading: Although we will not discuss Chapter 1 in detail until later in the semester, I'd like you to read it now for background. Some of the topics it covers are
  • Language Evaluation Criteria
  • Programming Language Paradigms
  • Influences on Language Design
  • Programming Domains
  
  
• Prolog:
• Notes on Prolog
• Prolog systems
• Reading: Chapter 12
• family.P
• Prolog resources
• Old Prolog notes
• Programming Assignment 1

ITEC 380: Week 2

• Prolog:
• Notes on Prolog
• Follow the link to the Xsb List Utilities Library for information on how to load an xsb library with commands such as length
• Reading: Chapter 16
• Old Prolog notes
• xsb site. Contains downloadable windows and unix versions and web-based manuals.


• Homework 1


• Program 1

ITEC 380: Week 3

• Prolog:
• Notes on Prolog
• Prolog Unit Test


• Introductory Material: Programming Language Evaluation:
• Criteria and Characteristics
• Domains
• Influences
• Paradigms
• Evolution
• Old Notes on Language Evaluation: Chapter 1 - Language evaluation


• Chapter 2 - History of programming languages


• Reading: Chapters 1 and 2

ITEC 380: Week 4

• Homework 1: Available Now


• Chapter 2 - History of programming languages


• Chapter 1: Language Implementation


• Chapter 3: Syntax Notes: Intro and Lexical Analysis
• Chapter 3: Syntax Notes - Parsing and CFG. Topics:
• Syntax and Semantics
• Grammars, derivations, recursion, parse trees (concrete and abstract)
• BNF
• Ambiguous grammars
• Precedence and associativity
• Extended BNF


• Program 2 due Wednesday of next week


• Reading: Chapters 1 and 2

ITEC 380: Week 5

• Homework 1: Due Wednesday


• Exam 1 Friday of next week


• Some Fun


• Compilation:
• Chapter 1: Compiler Phases


• Chapter 3: Syntax Notes: Intro and Lexical Analysis
• Chapter 3: Syntax Notes: Parsing and CFG. Topics:
• Syntax and Semantics
• Grammars, derivations, recursion, parse trees (concrete and abstract)
• BNF
• Ambiguous grammars
• Precedence and associativity
• Extended BNF
• Old Notes on Syntax
• More old notes on Syntax


• Reading: Chapter 3

ITEC 380: Week 6

• Exam 1 on Tuesday Oct 18, 2010:
• Topics


• Compilation:
• Chapter 1: Compiler Phases (We covered most of this last week)
• Chapter 3: Syntax Notes (Continued from last week)
• Chapter 3: Lexical Analysis

ITEC 380: Week 7

• Exam next week on Tuesday Oct 18, 2010
• Exam 1 - Topics (revised for 2010)


• Program 3


• Notes on Python

ITEC 380: Week 8

• Exam This week on Tuesday Oct 18, 2010
• Exam 1 - Topics (revised for 2010)


• Python (continued)
• More on python
• Notes on Python (from last week)


• Scanner project: Program 3


• We are not doing Perl, but if you are interested, here are some notes:
• Perl notes
• Notes on lists
• Notes on Hash Tables
• Notes on Subroutines
• Notes on Regular Expressions
• Old notes on Perl
• Perl parameters by reference, again
• Perl parameters by reference, again

ITEC 380: Week 9

• Python (continued)
• More on python
• Notes on Python (from last week)


• Compilation:
• Notes on Compililation
• More notes on compilation: Recursive Descent parsing and code generation.


• Limitations of parsers and more on parsers and grammars


• Chapter 5: Names, Bindings, Type Checking, Scope

ITEC 380: Week 10

• Program 4


• Chapter 5: Names, Bindings, Type Checking, Scope


• Compilation
• Compiler Phases
• Notes on compilation
• More notes on compilation: Recursive Descent parsing and code generation.


• Limitations of Parsers and more on parsers and grammars
• Recursive descent compilers
• Recursive descent compilers and EBNF
• BNF and regular grammars
• Reading: Chapter 4

ITEC 380: Week 11

• Chapter 5:
• Names
• Binding: Times, static, dynamic
• Memory organization
• Variable Characteristics: name, address, type, value, scope, lifetime
• Type Binding: dynamic, type inference
• Storage binding: allocation and deallocation
• Lifetime: static, stack dynamic, explicit and implicit heap dynamic
• Type checking: compatibility, errors, strong typing, dynamic binding (again)
• Scope: static and dynamic, hiding
• Constants
• Variable initialization


• Notes on Chapter 6 - Types

ITEC 380: Week 12

• Presentation: Advanced Vim - Tuesday 5:00 p.m. Unix Lab


• Homework: Some sample problems to work and go over on Tues after break: 5.6-12.
• Homework 2
• Virtually everyone in class voted to thave this assighment graded. It is due Tuesday afer break in class. We will discuss it in class, and you can pick up your graded work on Wednesday.
• Do you want some or all of it to be due Tuesday after break and graded?


• Exam the week after break: Thursday 12/02/10
• Exam topics: are here


• Functional Programming with LISP:
• Class notes on LISP
• Useful Common Lisp Functions
• From the text: Chapter 11


• Programming Assignments:
• Program 4
• Program 5
• Program 6 (OPTIONAL)

ITEC 380: Week 13

• Thanksgiving Break all week!

ITEC 380: Week 14

• Homework 2
• Due Tuesday afer break in class.
• We will discuss it in class, and you can pick up your graded work on Wednesday.


• Exam the week after break: Thursday 12/02/10
• Exam topics: are here (updated for 2010


• Programming Assignments:
• Program 4
• Program 5
• Program 6 (OPTIONAL)


• Notes on Chapter 6 - Types

ITEC 380: Week 15

• Notes on Chapter 6 - Types


• Last topics
  • Procedure implementation: Chapters 9 and 10
  • Semantics
  • Modules
  
  
• Programming Assignments:
• Program 4
• Program 5
• Program 6 (OPTIONAL)


• Final Exam: 8 a.m. Tuesday 12/16/10
• Final Exam Topics

ITEC 380: Week 16

• Final Exam: 8 a.m. Tuesday 12/16/10


• Final Exam Topics

ITEC 380: Week 17

• Our semester is shorter now; there is no longer a 17th week.