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CSC123/252: Programming Languages, Fall 2008

Dr. Chuck C. Liang
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Hofstra University .

Office Address:
201A Adams Hall
Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY 11550
Office Phone: (516 463) 5559

Email: cscccl@hofstra.edu (<- click to send me mail)

Official Office Hours: Monday through Thursday 3-4pm

Course Syllabus and Goals

Online Resources:

• Lambda Calculus tutorial. (here's another tutorial)
• Scheme tutorial
• MIT Scheme homepage. Install this version for windows.
• My "Perl Tutorial in Perl"
• Perl.org homepage
• A Short C++ to Java Tutorial
• A Short Java to C++ Tutorial
• brief instructions on installing C#
• C# Documentation at MSDN
• OOP Design Patterns (beware: abstract class used instead of interface). You need to first understand Singleton, Factory Method, Adapter, Facade, Observer
  
• .Net Generics: read part 1 and especially part 2.
• Class notes on type inference calculi (pdf)
• Typed functional languages: Standard ML, F# .Net
• Article about F# Absolutely Required Reading
  Algebraic programming in ML

Some lambda calculus in Python
Some lambda calculus in Scheme

Scheme Programs (files in bold are required reading)

• Halting Problem in Lambda Calculus/Scheme
  
• Simple Scheme examples
  
• more interesting scheme code.
  
• Quicksort in Scheme
  
• Graph search in Scheme
  
• web server in Scheme. Here's the page it serves (access within 147.4.0.0/16).
  
• Bank accounts. code follows the handout.
• Objects and inheritance in Scheme

• Lambda calculus in Perl
• Static versus dynamic scoping
• Bank Accounts!!. (alternate version using a hash table)
• OOP using packages and "bless"
• TCP client for downloading webpage
• CGI program for uploading files
• Binary data processing in Perl (not for the weak!)

• Static and dynamic dispatch mechanisms in C#
  
• C# Delegates (first-class functions). Another delegates example
  
• Notes on the difference between abstract class and interface.
  
• THE PIZZA FACTORY! (my example of Factory Method pattern)
  
• My example of the ABSTRACT FACTORY pattern
• My example of the adapter pattern
• invest.cs. (my example of Observer pattern)
• notes and examples of polymorphism
• Balancing generics and inheritance, with example of separate compilation. mainapp file, and .net IL assembly code.
• Expressions trees program : csc16 version, csc17 version, csc123 (visitor pattern) version, Parametrized VP version
• My student visitors example, that includes weirdstudents
  Version of "student" visitor pattern that includes xml file parser).
  

The Food Assignment. Your xmlwriter visitor should write files consistent with this example.
Food files: foods.cs, foodvisitors.cs aboutfood.cs.

Announcements:

Quiz Monday 11/24. Quiz Study Guide.

WATCH: Perl Video Lecture (basics; mergesort)
MUST ABSOLUTELY WATCH: Perl closures and objects lecture: Part 1 and Part 2.
NOTE: please don't write "if ($request = "inquiry")..." Use "if ($request eq "inquiry")..." instead.

Extra Extra: really cool instructional video on how to install cygwin on windows. View in full screen mode with screen resolution set to at least 1024x768. Play with Windows media player.