The lecture notes, homework assignments, and programming projects are posted here.

Week 1

Wednesday, 02/04

• Course Overview
• Overview of Programming Languages: A brief history, Early Programming Languages
• Project 1

Friday, 02/06

• Brief Intro to C (the sample code is in this note)

Week 2

Monday, 02/09

• Arrays, Strings, and Structs in C
• array_demo.c
• pointer_demo.c
• string_demo.c
• struct_demo.c
• Homework 1

Wednesday, 02/11

• Floating Point Format and Big/Little Endian

Friday, 02/13

• If time, then we begin Regular Expressions
• Homework 1 Discussion
• Quiz 1

Week 3

Monday, 02/16

• Lexical Analysis with Regular Expressions (Notes for Monday and Wednesday)

Wednesday, 02/18

• Stephanie is traveling today, so watch the video on Flex linked to here.
• Example Flex file: count_ints.yy
• Example Flex file: demo_precedence.yy
• Example Flex file: demo_special_characters.yy
• Project 2

Friday, 02/20

• Some notes on Syntax (these also apply to next week)
• Stephanie is traveling today, so watch the video on Grammars linked to here.

Week 4

Monday, 02/23

• Syntax: EBNF, precedence, balancing grammar rules with how the parser is written

Wednesday, 02/25

• Project 3
• myStack.h
• myStack.c
• runStack.c
• simple_tokenizer.py
• simple_parser.py
• Clite handout
• Homework 2

Friday, 02/27

• Grammars can enforce Operator Precedence
• Homework 2 Discussion
• Quiz 2

Week 5

Monday, 03/02

• Syntax: Ambiguous Grammars (dangelse.c, dangelse.java)
• Naming (Notes)
• Naming: Scope (scope.c, scope.py)
• staticInC.c
• playExtern.h
• playExtern.c
• playExternCaller.c
• deref.c

Wednesday, 03/04

• overloading.py
• Homework 3

Friday, 03/06

• Homework 3 Discussion
• Quiz 3

Week 6

Monday, 03/09

• Begin the topic of Types
• Implicit Conversion in Java and C
• num_conversion.c
• ConversionI.java
• c_pointer_conversion.c
• Arrays in C and Java
• arrays.c
• ArrayDemo.java

Wednesday, 03/11

• Function Pointers in Python and C
• function_pointers.c
• function_pointers.py
• Homework 4
• Project 4
• variable_number_of_arguments.c

Friday, 03/13

• sort_drones.c
• Homework 4 Discussion
• Quiz 4

Week 7

Monday 03/16

• Introduction to Semantics
• Semantics of Expressions
• AST.py (for Expressions only)
• simple_interpreter.py (for Expressions only)
• initial_state.c
• InitialState.java
• InitialState2.java

Wednesday, 03/18

• Semantics of Assignment
• Code for the simple intepreter:
  • AST.py
  • build_AST.py
  • simple_interpreter.py
  • test_it.py
  • tokenizer.py
  • test.c
• Homework 5
• funnyIncrement.c

Friday, 03/20

• Go over HW5,
• Take Quiz 5.

Week 8

Monday, 03/30

• Semantics of Conditional and Loop Statements
• exp.c (demoing assignment returning a value)
• Project 5

Wednesday, 04/01

• Homework 6

Friday, 04/03

• Homework 6 Discussion
• Quiz 6

Week 9

Monday, 04/06

• Semantics of Input/Output
• Code
  • rudimentary.c
  • formatIO.c
  • formatIO2.c
  • formatted_io.c

Wednesday, 04/08

• Homework 7
• read_zip.c
• Project 6

Friday, 04/10

• Semantics of Error-Handling
• Code:
• TryCatch.java
• trycatch.py
• trycatchPC.cpp
• Homework 7 Discussion
• Quiz 7

Week 10

Monday, 04/13

• Code:
• signal-int.c
• signal-bus.c
• signal-segv.c
• GPAcalc.c (demonstrate assertion)
• GPACalc.java (demonstrate assertion)
• GPACalc.py (demonstrate assertion)

Wednesday, 04/15

• Notes on Functions
• Code:
• swap.c
• swap.cpp
• swap.adb
• Swap.java
• ref.cpp
• PassByValueResult.adb
• Aliasing: e.g. aliasing.cpp

Friday, 04/17

• No Class today

Week 11

Monday, 04/20

• Notes on Memory Management
• recursion.c (Example showing how recursion can take up space on the stack)
• fibonacci.c (code with fibonacci sequence implemented via loops and via recursion)
• my_timing.h (header file for timing code)
• my_timing.c (body file for timing code)

Wednesday, 04/22

• heap_demo.c (code to determine how malloc is managing the heap)
• Project 7

Friday, 04/24

• Garbage Collection
• gc_play.py
• Homework 8 (due last week of classes)

Week 12

Monday, 04/27

• Notes on Concurrent Programming
• hello_threads.c
• increment_race.c

Wednesday, 04/29

• increment_personal.c
• increment_mutex.c
• prime_counter.c
• prime_counter2.c (illustrating load balancing)
• prime_counter_threads.py (multi-threaded programming in Python)
• prime_counter_processes.py (programming in Python with multiple processes)
• PrimeCounter.java
• PrimeCounterBetterLoad.java
• Project 8

Friday, 05/01

• No class because of CLAS

Week 13

Monday, 05/04

• Go over HW8
• Take Quiz 8
• Homework 9 (due Wednesday)

Wednesday, 05/06

• philosophers.c (deadlock)
• Go over HW9
• Take Quiz 9

Friday, 05/08

• Final Presentation Instructions

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