TTh 1100-1215 SWGN 2A27
Prerequisites: CSCE 212, CSCE 245, MATH 374
Instructor: Marco Valtorta
Office: Swaeringen 3A55, 777-4641
E-mail:
mgv@cse.sc.edu
Office Hours: TTh 1400-1530 (subject to change)
Teaching Assistant:
TBD
Sen Xu,
xu4@cse.sc.edu,
Office Hours TBA
Reference materials:
Student Presentations
Student presentation information
Homework, Tests, and Programs
Quizzes (In-Class Exercises)
Quiz 1 of 07-08-28
(in pdf format, with answer)
Quiz 2 of 07-08-30
(in pdf format, with answer)
Quiz 3 of 07-09-04
(in pdf format, with answer)
Quiz 4 of 07-09-04
(in pdf format, with answer)
Quiz 5 of 07-09-06
(in pdf format, with answer) (incorrectly labeled Quiz 4)
Quiz 6 of 07-09-13
(in pdf format, without answer)
Quiz 7 of 07-09-18
(in pdf format, with answer) (incorrectly dated 07-09-13)
Quiz 8 of 07-09-20
(in pdf format, with answer)
Quiz 9 of 07-10-05
(in pdf format, with answer)
Quiz 10 of 07-10-07
(in pdf format, with answer)
Quiz 11 of 07-10-18
(in pdf format, with answer; dated 10-16, but actually done 10-18)
Quiz 12 of 07-10-23
(in pdf format, with answer)
Quiz 13 of 07-10-25
(in pdf format, with answer)
Quiz 14 of 07-11-01
(in pdf format, with answer)
Quiz 15 of 07-11-08
(in pdf format, with answer)
Quiz 16 of 07-11-13
(in pdf format, with answer)
Quiz 17 of 07-11-29
(in pdf format, with answer)
Quiz 18 of 07-12-04
(in pdf format, with answer)
Quiz 19 of 07-12-06
(in pdf format, with answer)
The USC Blackboard has a site for this course. This is only used for posting of grades.
Prolog Information
Some useful links:
Microsoft announces the release of the functional programming language F#:
announcement from ACM Technews, 2007-11-09, pdf;
same in MS-Word format, with link to a longer article;
internship for functional programmers at Microsoft
Research
Dr. Vidal is looking for students to
join the resurgent ACM student chapter!
In this class, we write dates according to
ISO Standard 8601.
Brian Hayes. "The Semicolon Wars." _American Scientist_, July-August 2006,
pp.299-303.
Local copy, pdf.
The Ariane 5 launch disaster.
Local copy of paper for HW2: Rajlich, V., N. Wilde, M.
Buckellew. and H. Page. ``Software Cultures and Evolution.'' _Computer_,
34, 9 (September 2001), pp.24--28.
Introduction to Simplesem and its use.
The Tiobe Software web site, with the Tiobe
Programming Community Index of the popularity of programming languages.
Paper by Paul Graham on John McCarthy's original LISP interpreter.
Local copy of the paper on the original LISP interpreter:
postscript, two pages per sheet.
Note for lectures on the LISP interpreter (in postcript)
Paper by Paul Graham on a large application of LISP.
FAQ for comp.lang.lisp.
AutoLISP is used in AutoCAD
How to view postscript in Windows:
Wim Sweldens's web page on GSview.
Another link to Ghostscript and Ghostview, courtesy of
Stephen Smolley.
Carter Bays's FP interpreter
Norman Matloff's Introduction to the vi Text editor
Norman Matloff's Unix Tutorial Center
A site with a short program written in many languages, not including FP.
A site with onother short program written in several languages..
John McCarthy, developer of LISP, wins the Franklin Medal