1/28
First day of class! Lots of people. Went over syllabus, and introductory slides.
1/30
Finish introductory slides. Took Polaroids of the very full class! Began Java
slides.
2/3
I've given permission for ten students to add the class, bringing the total
to 65, which is the official capacity of the classroom. I gave students priority
based on accumulated credits, and unfortunately I was not able to accommodate
everybody. There may still be room in the evening section. We plan to offer
331 this summer.
2/4
Continue Java slides,
2/6
Continue Java slides
2/11
Continue Java slides, with example programs for factorial and guess a number
game handout. The Java program is called GuessN.java.
2/13
Continue Java slides, starting with class, subclass, and packages.
2/18
Class was cancelled due to snow.
2/20
Class was cancelled due to snow-covered parking lots.
2/25
Chapter 1 of the textbook. Distribute and discuss the first Java programming
assignment. Programming Project
1
We'll be using the submit program. To test it out, please do Project
0.
Homework 1 is based on the first chapter in the textbook.
Let me call your attention to the IT Visionaries event
scheduled for March 14.
2/27
Two handouts, and more Java. The string handout is from the Sun
tutorial, and the Hello world applet is from Java
Examples in a Nutshell, Second Edition.
A breif review of Chapter 2 of the textbook.
3/4
Collect Homework 1. Finish "Java Basics 1" slides. Handout from "Java
in a Nutshell", 153-154 on file I/O.
3/6
Begin "Java Basics II" slides.
3/11
Begin slides from Chapter 3 of textbook. Discuss material to be covered on next
week's exam, The sample exam
The exam will cover
3/13
Continue slides from Chapter 3
3/18
Finish slides from chapter 3, and review for exam. Go over exercises 3, 5 and
8 from the end of chapter 3.
3/20
Midterm Exam
3/25, 3/27
SPRING BREAK
4/1
Does anybody remember what I talked about this Tuesday after break?
4/3
Discussion of midterm exam. Overview of attribute grammars.
4/8
Discussion of second Java project,
the expression evaluator. Introducion to lexical analysis and recursive-descent
parsing.
4/10
Slides on axiomatic semantics. Finished Chapter 3.
4/15
Slides from Chapter 4. Lexical analysis(ppt,
html), and top-down parsing(ppt,
html). The slides on bottom-up parsing(ppt,
html) are also available, but I won't be covering
them.
4/17
Spent much of the time discussing graduate school, and other advising questions.
Spent the last fifteen minutes on Project
2.
4/22
Some additional discussion of the project. A handout on left recursion elimination.
Did an overview of Chapter 5 (ppt, html)
4/24
Began the slides for Chapter 6 (ppt, html).
You may be interested in this StreamTokenizer
Example
4/29
Finish slides for Chapter 6. Deadline for Project 2 is extnded until midnight
on Thursday.
5/1
Begin ML slides (ppt, html).
The ML program used in the handout is updatedPre.ml
5/6
Continue ML slides. The third (ML) project
has been released. The homework assignment is returned, at last!
5/8
More ML. A lot of SML information is available through www.smlnj.org.
There is also an on-line tutorial
5/13
Review for final exam. We have returned the project 2 grades. I need to postpone
my office hours today. I'll be available from 5:15 to 6:30pm today. I'll also
be available tomorrow afternoon.
5/15
Final exam, 1-3pm, in the usual classroom. As for the midterm, a single sheet
of paper with helpful information is allowed.