Computer Science 431: Programming Languages Concepts (Spring 2011)

Please send comments or questions at any time to the instructor at boyland@cs.uwm.edu.

Announcements

• The class is full: if you have not met the pre-requisite (C or better in CS 351), you may be dropped.
• Graduate students will write a 500-1000 word essay describing how this course fits into their graduate education: why are you taking 431, and what does it provide for your degree?

Official Course Description

Programming Languages Concepts. 3 cr. U/G. Examination of abstract features of languages. Study of syntactic and semantic models; design and programming in procedural, object-oriented, functional and logical languages. Implementation methods. Prereq: soph st; grade of C or better in CompSci 252(P)

Textbooks

Adam Webber. Modern Programming Languages: A Practical Introduction. Franklin, Beedle and Associates, Inc., 2003.

Andrew P. Black and others. Squeak by Example. Square Bracket Associates, Kehrsatz, CH, 2009.

Course Handouts

• Syllabus in HTML and PDF
• Homeworks

  #1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	#8	#9	#10	#11	#12	#13	#14	#15
  HTML	HTML	HTML	HTML	HTML	HTML	HTML	HTML	HTML	HTML	HTML	HTML	HTML	HTML	HTML
  PDF	PDF	PDF	PDF	PDF	PDF	PDF	PDF	PDF	PDF	PDF	PDF	PDF	PDF	PDF
  Sample Discussion	FAQ		FAQ	FAQ		FAQ	FAQ

• Sample exam questions

  midterm	final
  HTML	HTML

  No solution will be posted! But you may come to my office hours to check your answers.

Documentation

• Dr. Webber's slides for the textbook.
• AFS

  If you install AFS on your home computer, you will probably want to turn on encryption of file transfer. Use "fs setcrypt on" in your AFS startup script (if UNIX-based). In Windows, as far as I know, you have to do this manually every time AFS is started up again (e.g. on reboots).

• Squeak
• ML Tutorials
• Emacs mode for SML
• Site for downloading SWI-Prolog

Last modified: January 4, 2011