CSCE 330: Programming Language Structures

Prerequisites: CSCE 240 and MATH 374

Section 1: TTh 1450--1605 SWGN 2A27

Section 2: TTh 1800--1915 SWGN 2A27

Instructor (Section 1): Marco Valtorta
Office: Swearingen 3A55, 777-4641
E-mail: mgv@cse.sc.edu
Office Hours: MWF 1100-1200 and by appointment

Instructor (Section 2): Heath Carroll
E-mail: carrollh@email.sc.edu
Office Hours: Friday, 9-noon, and by appointment at Cool Beans Coffee Shop, 1217 College Street

Any student with a documented disability should contact the Office of Student Disability Services at (803)777-6142 to make arrangements for proper accommodations.

Syllabus

Grading Policy

Reference materials:

  • Hector J. Levesque. Thinking as Computation. The MIT Press, 2012 (required text, referred to as [L]). Supplementary materials from the author are available.
  • Graham Hutton. Programming in Haskell. Cambridge University Press, 2007 (required text, referred to as [U]). Supplementary materials from the author, including an errata list, are available. The link to Erik Meijer's video lectures on Haskell given in the Progrmming in Haskell page has been changed. Use this link instead. Direct link for Chapter 11 ("The Countdown Problem") lecture.
    • The current departmental syllabus lists the following outcomes of instruction for this course: Specific objectives of this course are: If time allows, we will also study the run-time behavior of block-oriented, statically-typed imperative languages.

    Lecture Log

    Lecture Notes

    Homework, Tests, and Programs
    Last year's test (2013)
    The midterm exam will be on Thursday, October 2, 2014.
    See the lecture log for assignments not listed below.

  • Grading policy per assignment
    Please include examples of use for Prolog assignments. The examples of use should address all types of queries or predicates that you are asked to write. You may create a log of an SWI-Prolog session using protocol/1 and noprotocol/0. See www.swi-prolog.org/FAQ/MakeLog.html.
  • Midterm from 2012 edition of the course (with some changes) (MS-Word format).
  • Program 5 on FP, assigned 2013-10-16, due 2013-10-28

    Prolog Information

    Haskell Information

    Student Presentation

    Quizzes (In-Class Exercises)
    Quiz 1 of 14-08-26 (in pdf format, with answer)
    Quiz 2 of 13-09-18 (in pdf format, with answer)
    Quiz 3 of 14-10-14 (16 for section 2) (in pdf format, with answer)
    Quiz 4 of 14-11 25 (in pdf format, with answer)

    Some useful links:
    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.
    Philip Wadler, "Monads for Functional Programming" (pdf, local copy; bibliographical details at the bottom of the first page). Chapter 5 (especially starting with section 5.2) mirrors the presentation in Chapter 8 [H]. The beginning of Section 5.4 specifies the unit and * operations needed to define a monad. The discussion at the beginning of Section 5.12 explains that these operations have the monad properties, and therefore the parsers of Chapter 8 [H] are monads: "The empty parser and sequencing correspond directly to unit and *, and the monads laws reflect that sequencing is associative and has the empty parser as a unit. The failing parser and alternation correspond to zero and (XOR), which satisfy laws reflecting that alternation is associative and has the failing parser as a unit, and that sequencing distributes through alternation."
    Repository of Code for: Cristina Videira Lopez. Exercises in Programmign Style. CRC Press, 2014.
    Parnas D.L. (December 1972). "On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules" (PDF). Comm ACM 15 (12): 1053-1058 (local copy).
    Computer Language History web site by Eric Levenez
    The Ariane 5 launch disaster.
    Local copy of: Adrion, W.A., M.A. Branstad, and J.C. Cherniavsky. "Validation, Verification and Testing of Computer Software." ACM Computing Surveys, 14, 2 (June 1982), pp.159--192.
    Local copy of: Rajlich, V., N. Wilde, M. Buckellew. and H. Page. ``Software Cultures and Evolution.'' _Computer_, 34, 9 (September 2001), pp.24--28.
    C.A.R. Hoare. "Retrospective: An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming." _Communications of the ACM_, 52, 10 (October 2009), pp.30-32.
    C.A.R. Hoare. "An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming. _Communications of the ACM_, 12, 10 (October 1969), 576-580.
    John McCarthy. "A Micromanual for LISP---Not The Whole Truth." ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 13, Issue 8 (August 1978), Pages 215-216 (local copy)
    The Simplesem interpreter    : unzip, and follow the instructions in readme.txt. This is a Java implementation that seems robust and will run in Windows.
    Carter Bays's FP interpreter
    John Backus. "Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs." Communications of the ACM, 21, 8 (August 1978), 613-641
    Boyko Bantchev's List of Interviews with Programming Language Creators from Computerworld's series "The A-Z of Programming Languages (pdf)
    A to Z of Programming Languages Index
    J.W. Backus. "The 701 Speedcoding System." Journal of the ACM, 1, 1, pp.4-6, 1954 (local copy).
    A site with a short program written in many languages, not including FP.
    A site with another short program written in several languages..
    John McCarthy, developer of LISP, wins the Franklin Medal
    John McCarthy's Obituary from the _New York Times_, 2011-10-25 (local copy).
    Dennis Ritchie's Obituary from the _New York Times_, 2011-10-13 (local copy).
    Joe Armstrong. "Erlang." Communications of the ACM, Vol. 53 No. 9, Pages 68-75.. This article describes the notion of dynamic code upgrade.