CSI 3120, Overview, page 1

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CSI 3120Concepts of Programming Languages
Welcome to
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Contact information

• Lecturer Nathalie Japkowicz
• Office STE 5029
• Phone [phone] ext. 6693 (not .
  recommended)
• Email nat_at_site.uottawa.ca
• My Web site www.site.uottawa.ca/nat/
• Office hours
• Monday 245pm-345pm
• Wednesday 115pm-215pm
• by appointment (use email)

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Topics

1. Preliminaries
2. Scheme and Prolog review
3. Evolution of the major programming languages
4. Describing the syntax of programming languages
5. Describing the semantics of programming languages
6. Syntactic Analysis  Parsing
7. An introduction to Perl
8. Names, bindings, type checking, and scopes, Data
   types, Expressions and the assignment statement,
   Statement-level control structures
9. Implementing subprograms
10. Concurrency
11. Exception Handling

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Lectures, textbook, Web site

• Lectures, CSI 3120 AMondays 530pm-820pm, MNT
  204
• no class on Monday Oct. 8th (Thanksgiving)
• Textbook
• Robert W. Sebesta, Concepts of Programming
  Languages, 8th ed., Addison-Wesley, 2007Course
  web site
• http//www.site.uottawa.ca/nat/Courses/csi3120_20
  07/

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Evaluation
4 assignments HW 35 marks
midterm exam (80 min.) MD 20 marks
final exam (3 hours) FN 45 marks

• You must receive at least 32.5 of 65 exam marks
• if MD FN lt 32.5
• then Total (MD FN ) 1.5
• else Total MD FN HW

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Exams

• The exams are closed book, but a crib sheet will
  be allowed.
• Midterm Wednesday, October 24, 1130am-1220pm.
  Location TBA

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Assignments
Tentative topic Posted Due
Preliminaries History Prolog Scheme, Unix8 marks Sept. 17 Oct. 1
Grammars Axiomatic semantics Parsing9 marks Oct. 1 Oct. 15
Perl 9 marks Nov. 5 Nov. 19
Design issues 9 marks Nov. 19 Dec. 3
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Assignments (continued)

• Two written assignments (2, 4).
• One programming assignments (3).
• One mixed assignment (1)
• All the assignments are individual.
• Late penalty
• 0.5 mark for each weekday
• 0.25 mark for each Saturday/Sunday/holiday