CS471 Programming Language Structure I
Spring 2002

This page will contain links to assignments and other relevant information concerning the course. You should visit here regularly to get this information. The course information will also be available on WebCT. In particular WebCT will be the only place to look up your current grades.

Instructor: Roger Hartley, SH148

When and where: TTh 2:30-3:50 SH113

Office hours: by appointment only

The textbook for the course is "Concepts of Programming Languages" (5th. edition) by Robert Sebesta, published by Addison Wesley.

Assignments and tests:

Assignment 1: Syntax

Assignment 2: Operational Semantics

Assignment 3: Object-Oriented methods

Assignment 4: First-class functions

Sample answers to midterm test.

The Syntax Module is on WebCT.

You can view the materials for previous semesters by following the links below.

• Fall 01
• Spring 01
• Fall 00
• Spring 00
• Spring 99
• Fall 98
• Fall 97
• Fall 96
• Spring 96

Reference documents you might want to look at are:

• The Syllabus
• Topic lists for the first test
• Topics lists for the final exam.
• Examples questions for the first test
• First test given in Fall 98
• First test given in Spring 01, with sample answers
• Take-home final given in Fall 00, with sample answers.
• Activation records in static scoping
• Operational semantics
• Axiomatic semantics
• Denotational semantics
• A Gentle Introduction to ML
• The latest ML documentation
• How Prolog Can Do Arithmetic
• What is Postscript?
• The Scheme Report
• Parsing Techniques - A Practical Guide (Title page)
• The Evolution of Programming Languages