CSC 424: Programming Languages, Spring 2005

Assignments

Wednesday, February 2:

Read the Buzzword paper and look at the CodeRuler article

Wednesday, February 9:

Read Section 2 of the Java Language Environment white paper

Friday, February 11:

Prepare a MyRuler class implementing a CodeRuler strategy; we will have a competition in class

Monday, February 14:

Read more about Java and Object-Oriented Programming from the resources

Friday, February 18:

Read Moving Toward Object-Oriented Programming and Patterns and Elementary Patterns: Strategy, Decorator, and Composite

Wednesday, March 2:

Extend SimpLan with a counted loop construct. You may design the precise syntax and semantics, although it should at least support looping over a statement while a variable iterates through a range of values such as [1, 2, 3, ... 10] or [5, 10, 15, ... 100] (that is, it should at least allow incrementing by arbitrary positive values). Here is one suggested syntax:

    _for_ identifier = expression _to_ expression [_by_ expression] _do_ statement
               

(the square brackets indicate that the increment part is optional). Also write some test programs in SimpLan to make sure your new statement works correctly.

Friday, March 18:

Read Improve modularity with aspect-oriented programming.

Friday, April 1:

Create a project using a scripting language (Groovy or JavaScript) in combination with Java. Suggested ideas: create a game (for example, tic-tac-toe or 20 questions) with a Java GUI, or add a GUI and/or scripting to a Java application (for example, SimpLan).

Monday, April 4:

Read Haskell Tutorial.

Monday, April 18:

Start reading the Prolog Wikibook.

Monday, April 25:

Extend the HSimpLan compiler/interpreter (I:\CSC424\public\HSimpLan)

• At a minimum, add support for output of string constants
• If you are interested in doing more, you could: add builtin functions (sqrt, sin, cos, etc.), add string operations (this would probably require some typechecking -- see me for details), finish the virtual machine interpreter or the direct SimpLan interpreter (versions of these will be available soon).

Wednesday, April 27:

Read Demand-driven Search in Functional Logic Programs.

Friday, April 29:

Turn in a proposal (one paragraph) describing what you intend to do for your final project and what language you will use.

Monday, May 9:

Read Growing a Language.

Wednesday, May 11:

Be prepared to show a near-final version of your final project (some volunteers will be shown on Monday, May 9).

Monday, May 16:

(Schedule) Individual oral exams: final version of project and accompanying paper (discussing impact of language design on your project) due at time of meeting.

DePauw University, Computer Science Department, Spring 2005
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