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CSC123/252: Programming Languages, Fall 2007

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.
• Perl.org homepage
• A Short C++ to Java Tutorial
• A Short Java to C++ Tutorial
• My "Perl Tutorial in Perl"
• 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. Absolutely Required Reading.
• Visitor Pattern notes. (follow all the links, especially the "implementation models").
• Visitor pattern example 1, example 2, example 3 (in delphi, an ada-ish oop language)
• Typed functional languages: Standard ML, F# .Net
• AspectJ Homepage. Install the latest stable release and read at least the first two chapters of the programming guide.
• Java API Documentation

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 adapter pattern
• invest.cs. (my example of Observer pattern)
• notes and examples of polymorphism
• balancing inheritance and generics
• 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).
  

• First AspectJ example. (Contains installation and compilation instructions).
  
• Second AspectJ example superprivate.java and sptest.java
  
• Third and major AOP example: base program, invariance aspect, initialization aspect, profiling aspect, security aspect.
  
• Aspect-oriented bank accounts: aopbank.java. Contains one of the problems of the programming assignment
  
• More AspectJ Programs: advice precedence, preventing circularity, contro-flows, if pointcut, doubly linkedlist, pertarget aspects
  
• exptree6.java: AOP version of expression tree program. Contains important theoretical remarks (read!).

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

AspectJ Assignment Part A. The first problem of part A is due Tuesday 12/4, and should be completed individually.
problem B3 of the AOP assignment, with support files figure.java and figs.java. (main is in figs.java).

Announcements:

Final Exam RESCHEDULED to Tuesday 12/18 at 6:15pm, adams 200.

I'll be on campus Monday at around 3-4:30pm. If enough people show up we can hold another review session. In any case I'll be available to answer questions then.

Use the exam study guide, now with sample solutions to the practice problems.
Review Session Tuesday 12/11 at 5pm, in Adams 019.

To run the ajc compiler on windows, you must use the windows "cmd" command line (don't use the cygwin shell). Add the required paths for both java and asjectj to system-enviornment variable Path. Make sure you have java and javac working first before trying to install aspectj. Use the java from java.sun.com.

Scheme can now also be run on the linux machines in Adams 204. Execute the command

/shared/csc/local/bin/scheme --library /shared/csc/local/lib/mit-scheme