COMP 4040/6040: Programming Languages

Thu 26 Sep	Foundations
Tue 27 Aug	lecture Welcome to Programming Languages! reading PLP Ch. 1 assigned Homework 0 - Getting Started!
Thu 29 Aug	lecture Programming Language Syntax 1: Regular Expressions reading PLP Ch. 2.0–2.1.1
Tue 3 Sep	due Homework 0 - Getting Started! by 1:00pm lecture Programming Language Syntax 2: Context-Free Grammars reading PLP Ch. 2.1.2–2.1.3 assigned Homework 1 - RoboLang Scanner
Thu 5 Sep	lecture Programming Language Syntax 3: Implementing Scanners reading PLP Ch. 2.2
Tue 10 Sep	activity Creating a Parser with ANTLR (handout, solution) assigned Homework 2 - RoboLang Parser
Thu 12 Sep	due Homework 1 - RoboLang Scanner by 1:00pm lecture Programming Language Syntax 4: Implementing Parsers reading PLP Ch. 2.3.0
Tue 17 Sep	Study Day (attendance optional) misc Fleming out of town
Thu 19 Sep	Exam 1 (questions, solutions) misc Fleming out of town
Tue 24 Sep	lecture Programming Language Syntax 5: Recursive Descent Parsers reading PLP Ch. 2.3.1
Thu 26 Sep	lecture Programming Language Syntax 6: Predict Sets reading PLP Ch. 2.3.2
Tue 1 Oct	due Homework 2 - RoboLang Parser by 1:00pm lecture Programming Language Syntax 6: Predict Sets (cont'd)
Thu 31 Oct	Core Issues in Language Design
Thu 3 Oct	video Growing a Language (Steele, 1998)
Tue 8 Oct	activity Working with Parse Trees in ANTLR reading ANTLR4 Ch. 7.2, 7.4–7.5
Thu 10 Oct	activity Working with Parse Trees in ANTLR (cont'd)
Tue 15 Oct	Fall Break (No Class)
Thu 17 Oct	lecture Names, Binding, and Scope reading PLP Ch. 3 assigned Homework 3 - Name Checking
Tue 22 Oct	lecture Control Flow reading PLP Ch. 6
Thu 24 Oct	lecture Data Types reading PLP Ch. 7
Tue 29 Oct	video Why JavaScript Programmers Hate You: An ode to dynamic languages (Vitek, 2013) assigned Homework 4 - Translating to Java
Thu 31 Oct	Exam 2 (questions, solutions) resource Here is the Java cheatsheet that I will give you with the exam.
Thu 12 Dec	Alternative Programming Models
Tue 5 Nov	due Homework 3 - Name Checking by 1:00 activity Intro to Open MPI (notes) video What Is [Open] MPI?
Thu 7 Nov	activity Intro to Open MPI (cont'd; notes)
Tue 12 Nov	activity Intro to Open MPI (cont'd; notes)
Thu 14 Nov	due Homework 4 - Translating to Java by Sunday (10% bonus if submitted on Thu) activity Parallel Programming Studio Day assigned Homework 5 - Parallel Word Search
Tue 19 Nov	lecture Thread Programming
Thu 21 Nov	lecture Thread Synchronization example Producer-Consumers Example (in SVN)
Tue 26 Nov	activity Quick: An Introduction to Racket with Pictures assigned Homework 6 - Functional Programming with Racket
Thu 28 Nov	Thanksgiving Holidays (No Class)
Tue 3 Dec	review lec1202-racketReview.rkt activity Continue: Web Applications in Racket
Thu 5 Dec	Study Day (No Class)
Thu 12 Dec 10:30–12:30	Exam 3 (questions, solutions) covers All new material since last exam–especially parallel programming with Open MPI, multithreaded programming in Java, and functional programming with Racket due Homework 5 - Parallel Word Search due by 10:30 due Homework 6 - Functional Programming with Racket due by 10:30