Programming Languages

CSCI 230, Fall semester, 2016

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Instructor: Dr. Shieu-Hong Lin Time: Tue/Thurs. 12:00~1:15 Location: LIB 141

Office Hours:

M~Th 8:30am~10:30am, MW 11:30~1:00pm Math & CS department at Grove 8

Contact Dr. Lin to set up an appointment in advance

Grading TAs: Garrett Stevenson and David Ramos

TAs for TA hours: Alvin Suh, William Tan

TA hours: T Th 1:00~4:00pm

Syllabus: compact version.

Textbooks (required)

• Stanley Lippman, C++ Primer, 5^th Ed., Addison Wesley, 2013.
• R. Sebesta, Programming the World Wide Web, 8th Ed., Pearson, 2014.

References

• M. Scott, Programming Language Pragmatics, Morgan Kaufmann; 4th edition, 2015.
• R. Sebesta, Concepts of Programming Languages, 10th Ed., Pearson, 2012.

Links to useful online references

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Submission of all your work: go to Biola Canvas

Your grades: see them under Biola Canvas

Late policy:

· The submission link remains open for 2 more days after the due date as a grace period, but 1 point will be deducted for late submission after the due date while the submission link is still open.

· You will receive no points after the submission link on canvas is closed unless it is something like a serious health issue with statements from the doctor as proof.

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Week 1: Introduction to programming languages

Reading #1 (Basic Types in C++) due: Thursday Sept. 1

• Read Chapter 2 of C++ Primer on basic types in C++ and browse this Wikipedia article on data types.
• Read the syntax document of the BIOLA programming language, study this sample source program prime.txt written in BIOLA to probe for prime numbers, download and unzip this zip file it to play an interpreter (which can execute source programs written in the Biola language), use it to run the code in prime.txt. See the snapshots of the loading and running of prime.txt and the syntax tree of prime.txt generated by the interpreter.
• Submission: Send in your reading report through Biola Canvas.

Lab #0: Due: Thursday Sept. 1

• Modify the program shown in prime.txt to accomplish the following things using the Biola language: (i) Implement an additional function findNthPrime(n) such that it will return the nth prime number given an integer n > 0 when it is called. (ii) Modify the main function such that it will repeatedly ask the use to enter a positive integer value for n and then display the nth prime number on the screen if n is positive. The main function should repeatedly check and ask the use to reenter a value for n (if the users enter a non-positive integer value for n) until a positive integer value is entered.
• You can choose to edit the source program either using notepad or just use the primitive Biola interpreter programming environment in Reading #1. But at least in the end, you must run your program using the Biola interpreter to make sure it does work.
• Submission: Submit your source code in a txt file together with the self-evaluation report through Biola Canvas.

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TA hours: T Th 1:00~4:00pm (Alvin Suh, William Tan), MATH/CS Alcove lab

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· Our official C++ compiler version is Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Express Edition (instead of the Visual studio 2015 version) on Windows platforms is. You can download, install, and register Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Express Edition for free.

· Semester Project: Biola Interpreter Project.

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