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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. F# intro tutorial
• Article about F# Absolutely Required Reading
  Algebraic programming in SML. F# version
• AspectJ Homepage. Install the latest stable release and read at least the first two chapters of the programming guide.
• Java API Documentation

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).
  

• 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, pertarget aspects, doubly linkedlist
• exptree6.java: AOP version of expression tree program. Contains important theoretical remarks (read!).

AspectJ Assignment Part A. Due Wednesday 12/10.
problem B3 of the AOP assignment, with support files figure.java and figs.java. (main is in figs.java).

Announcements:

Final exam Monday 12/15, 4-6pm in adams 208. Professor Xiang Fu will proctor the exam together with another class. Use the exam study guide, with sample solutions to the practice problems. Good luck.

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.