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CSC123/252: Programming Languages, Fall 2009

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 1:30-2:30pm

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. F# intro tutorial
• Old Article about F#
• Algebraic programming in SML. F# version

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).
• notes and examples of polymorphism
• Balancing generics and inheritance, with example of separate compilation. mainapp file, and .net IL assembly code.

Other programs:

C code similar to those used in class
Some miscellaneous perl code
More examples of objects: Rational numbers in Scheme, Perl, C++, Java, and C#, and for something really special: rationals in Eiffel : rational.e, rats.e.
Inheritance example (sports teams) in Scheme, Perl, and C#
My artistic side: a poem in C++
Use of pointers and casting in C compared to C++
Templates in C++

C# Warmup Assignment due Thursday 10/22. This is an INDIVIDUAL assignment.
THE HALLOWEEN ASSIGNMENT

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

ML-F# .Net integration lab. Support files: fractions.cs, numlist.fs

Announcements:

The Halloween assignment is due Thursday 11/6

Please read C# installation instructions.

INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO: Perl closures and objects lecture: Part 1 and Part 2.
NOTE: please don't write "if ($request = "inquiry")..." Use "if ($request eq "inquiry")..." instead.

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.