| Class Meetings | Wed 5:10-7pm in CIWW 109 |
| Recitations | Thu 6:10-7pm in CIWW 109 |
| First Lecture | Sep 5, 2018 |
| Last Lecture | Dec 12, 2018 |
| Midterm Exam | Oct 24, 2018, 5:10-7pm in CIWW 109 |
| Final Exam | Dec 19, 2018, 5:10-7pm in CIWW 109 |
| Instructor | Thomas Wies, Office 60FA 403, Office Hours Tue 4:00-5:00pm, or by appointment |
| Recitations | Zvonimir Pavlinovic, Office 60FA 418, Office Hours Fri 10:30am-12:00pm, or by appointment |
| Graders | Nikita Bhargava and Hu Jiayuan |
Design and use of mainstream programming languages: naming, scoping, type models, control structures, procedural abstractions, modularization. Implementation issues and runtime organization. We will study languages such as C, C++, Java, Scala, Scheme, and OCaml. The course work includes extensive programming exercises in various languages.
Prerequisites: Undergraduate courses in data structures and algorithms or equivalent, as well as familiarity and programming experience in a high-level language like C, C++, Java, or a similar language.
Throughout the semester, we will investigate the following topics in detail among others:
We will use Piazza for course-related discussions and announcements. I encourage you to ask questions when you are struggling to understand a concept - you can even do so anonymously.
Homework assignments (30%), midterm exam (30%), final exam (40%).
Late submissions of homework solutions and projects will be graded with a 10% penalty per day of late submission. Solutions will not be graded if they are submitted later than one week after the specified deadline.
Please review the departmental academic integrity policy. In this course, you may discuss assignments with other students, but the work you turn in must be your own. Do not copy another student's work. You should help other students on specific technical issues but you must acknowledge such interactions. Copying code or other work without giving appropriate acknowledgment is a serious offense with consequences ranging from no credit to potential expulsion.
There will be no required textbook for this course. However, the following textbooks are recommended for further study:
The syllabus can be subject to change, so please refresh frequently.
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