CS 3710 Vocational Languages

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Evaluation

• 15% In Class
• 45% assignments
• 10% midterm
• 30% final;  NOTE:  students must pass 2 languages on the final to pass the course

Assignment and Due Dates

• Jan 22: In-class 1
• Jan 29: In-class 2; Assignment 1
• Feb 5: Assignment 2
• Feb 12: In-Class 3
• Feb 19: In-Class 4; Assignment 3
• Mar 2: Midterm
• Mar 12 : Assignment 4
• Mar 21: In-Class 5
• Mar 28: In-Class 6
• April 2: Assignment 5
• April 6: Assignment 6

Note

• All material submitted for evaluation must be original and independent work.
• students must obtain a passing grade on each of 2 languages on the final to pass the course.

Materials

• Apr 20: End-of-term notes including some brief thoughts on the Perl portion of the final exam are here .
• Apr 5: Deadline for Assignment #6 extended to Monday, April 9.
• Mar 29: test-asn testsets mounted for Assignment #5 and #6.
• Mar 28: Text (Postscript/1 page), code, and answers for in-class quiz #6.
• Mar 28: Deadline for Assignment #5 extended to Monday, April 2.
• Mar 28: An error in the specification of Question 5(2) was pointed out to me; it is now fixed -- please go and have a look again at Assignment 5.
• Mar 22: An error in the specification of Question 5(1) was pointed out to me; it is now fixed -- please go and have a look again at Assignment 5.
• Perl 5 reference guide
• Mar 22: Text (Postscript/1 page), code, and answers for in-class quiz #5.
• Solutions to midterm exam
• Article by Dennis Ritchie on the development of C ( browsable | PostScript)
• Mar 19: Descriptions of Assignment 5 and Assignment 6.
• Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup on the ongoing evolution of C++ ( browsable) (found by Dean Barnes (dbarnes@cs.mun.ca))
• Class diary for Perl portion of course
• Perm materials (General)
• Perl materials from Winter'2000 edition of this course:
  • Take-home midterm (Perl): preface, (PLEASE READ THIS FIRST), midterm, answers
  • Final exam: answers
• Mar 12: Course home page shifted from http://www.cs.mun.ca/~brown/courses/3710/ to http://www.cs.mun.ca/~harold/Courses/CS3710/.
• Mar 6: Student Marks for ass 1-2 and quiz 1-3
• Feb 25: Topics for midterm. Note a few new slides that were missing from the C++ set are now posted (on template functions and iterators) in Notes and materials on C++
• Feb 25: Instructions for assignment 4 in postscript. This should be viewable with the gv command under the linux machines. There is also a MS-Word Version.
  Source for the prolog problem addressed in class and on assignment 4.
• Feb 22: Source for the prolog problem addressed in class and on assignment 4.
• Notes and materials on C++
• Notes and materials on C-Language
• Feb 12: Instructions for assignment 3.
• Feb 12: Quiz 3 postponed to Wednesday
• Feb 10: Finally posted the source code slides for the last class on C.
• Feb 10: solutions to assignments 1-2.
• Feb 5: a prolog interpreter called gprolog is installed on the tree machines. Docs in /usr/doc/gprolog-1.2.1/
• Feb 5: For those who missed in-class announcement, the correct switches for assignment 2 are: -l -r and -c. Please ignore the typo indicating otherwise.
• Feb 2: Corrections made to test cases for assignment 2. (A student pointed out they weren't correct.) [Note: run test-asn and select the third set of test cases.] anticipation of upcoming snow storms.
• Jan 29: Quiz 2 postponed to Wednesday's Class
• Jan 29: Quiz 2 postponed to Wednesday's Class
• Jan 29: Assignment 1: 24 hours extension to Tuesday night.
• Jan 29: Instructions for assignment 2.
• Jan 24: Quiz 1 with problems and without problems.
Jan 23: Some of the test cases for assignment 1.
• Jan 22: Description of assignment 1.