UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
The Department of Computer Science & Engineering

UB CSE 305

Last modification: 12/19/03.

Lecturer:

Prof. Stuart C. Shapiro, 326 Bell Hall, 645-3180 ext. 125, shapiro@cse.buffalo.edu
Office Hours: M 3:30 - 4:30, W 10:00-10:50, Th 2:00 - 2:50 or make an appointment via email. See my schedule for my available times.

TAs:

Ying Xie, Trailer B12, 645-3772, yingxie@cse.buffalo.edu
Office Hours: MW 1:00 - 2:30.

Aihua Xu, Trailer E10, 645-3771, aihuaxu@cse.buffalo.edu
Office Hours: M 11:00 - 1:00, TTh 12:30-2:00.

Class Meetings:

CLASS	INSTRUCTOR	REGIS. NO.	DAYS	HOURS	LOCATION
Lecture	Shapiro		TR	9:30-10:50 AM	NSC 210
Recitation R1	Ying Xie	168567	R	3:30-4:20 PM	NSC 228
Recitation R2	Ying Xie	437881	T	2:00-2:50 PM	NSC 228
Recitation R3	Aihua Xu	137731	F	8:00-8:50 AM	NSC 228

Weekly Schedule showing class meetings and office hours:

	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
8:00					R3
8:30					R3
9:30		Lecture		Lecture
10:00		Lecture	Shapiro	Lecture
10:30		Lecture	Shapiro	Lecture
11:00	Xu
11:30	Xu
12:00	Xu
12:30	Xu	Xu		Xu
1:00	Xie	Xu	Xie	Xu
1:30	Xie	Xu	Xie	Xu
2:00	Xie	R2	Xie	Shapiro
2:30		R2		Shapiro
3:00
3:30	Shapiro			R1
4:00	Shapiro			R1
4:30
5:00

Catalog Description:

This course covers concepts from procedural as well as declarative languages. The structure of procedural languages will be examined in detail, including data and control abstractions, type systems, and the effect of language constructs on the underlying implementation. Alternative programming paradigms, such as functional, logic, and object-oriented paradigms, will be briefly introduced.

Prerequisite: CSE250.

Text: Robert W. Sebesta, Concepts of Programming Languages, Sixth Edition

On-Line Resources: Click here

Newsgroup:

You should subscribe to the newsgroup sunyab.cse.305 and read it regularly. It will be monitored by the lecture and recitation instructors, and will be used for announcements meant for the entire class. You may also use it to ask questions, for example, for clarification of homework assignments between class and recitation meetings.
Do not use the newsgroup to share answers to homework assignments.

Academic Policies:

This course will abide by the Departmental Academic Integrity policies and procedures,
and the Departmental Incomplete policy.

The short versions are:

• all work turned in with your name on it must be your own work;
• unless something disastrous and unavoidable happens to you, and you are otherwise passing this course, you will not receive an incomplete.

Homeworks:

Homework exercises will include small programming assignments and short-answer questions. The purposes of homework exercises are:

• to have you experiment with different programming languages without writing big projects;
• to give you a chance to assess the level of your understanding;
• to give you experience with the kinds of questions that may be asked on exams.

Homework exercises will be posted on the below calendar. You may start working on a homework set as soon as it appears. The date and time a homework set is due will be contained on the homework assignment, and will typically be one week after the official assignment date. You are to submit your homeworks using the submit program:
To submit the file file:

If you're in Recitation R1: submit_cse305r1 file

If you're in Recitation R2: submit_cse305r2 file

If you're in Recitation R3: submit_cse305r3 file No late homeworks will be accepted!

Projects:

There will be no major programming projects. All programming assignments will be part of homework sets.

Grading:

Each homework problem will be assigned a point value. Homework points will be cumulative. The final homework grade will be the percent of points earned over maximum points possible. The final course grade will be a weighted average of the total homeworks, the midterm exam, and the final exam, according to the following weights:

Homeworks	30%
Midterm Exam	30%
Final Exam	40%
Total	100%

The default mapping from percents to letter grades will be the "standard" curve:

93-100	A
90-92	A-
87-89	B+
83-86	B
80-82	B-
77-79	C+
73-76	C
70-72	C-
67-69	D+
60-66	D
0-59	F

A more generous curve may be used, but don't count on it.

The grade sheet is posted, but available only to UB addresses.

Course Calendar: Dates of topics are approximate. Chapters refer to the chapters in the text. Read each chapter before the first lecture in which it will be discussed, and again, afterwards.

The Final Exam will be during Exam Week, and will be comprehensive.

Week	Tue.	Thur.	Fri.	Comments
1	8/26 First Lecture Introduction to Course Chapter 1: Preliminaries	8/28	8/29 Last day to drop without financial penalty
2	9/2 HW1 Assigned Chapter 2: Evolution of PLs	9/4 First Meeting of R1 Chapter 3: Syntax and Semantics	9/5 First Meeting of R3 Drop/Add and S/U/Audit deadlines
3	9/9 First Meeting of R2	9/11 HW1 solution posted HW2 Assigned Chapter 5: Names, Variables, Bindings, Type Checking, and Scopes	9/12
4	9/16	9/18 HW2 due, solutions posted HW3 Assigned	9/19
5	9/23	9/25 HW3 due 12:10am, solutions posted HW4 Assigned Chapter 6: Data Types	9/26
6	9/30	10/2 HW4 due, 9:00 am, solutions posted	10/3
7	10/7 Catch up & Review	10/9 Midterm Exam	10/10
8	10/14 Return and Review Midterm solutions posted HW5 assigned	10/16	10/17 R deadline
9	10/21 HW5 due, 9:00 am solutions posted HW6 assigned Chapter 7: Expressions & Assignment Statements	10/23	10/24
10	10/28 HW6 due, 9:00 am solutions posted HW7 assigned Chapter 8: Statement-Level Control Structures	10/30	10/31
11	11/4 HW7 due, 9:00 am solutions posted HW8 assigned Chapter 9: Subprograms	11/6	11/7
12	11/11 HW8 due, 9:00 am solutions posted HW9 assigned	11/13 Chapter 13: Concurrency	11/14
13	11/18 HW9 due, 9:00 am solutions posted HW10 assigned	11/20 Chapter 16: Logic Programming Languages	11/21
14	11/25 HW10 due, 9:00 am solutions posted HW11 assigned	11/27 Fall Recess	11/28 Fall Recess
15	12/2 Last Meeting of R2	12/4 HW11 due, 9:00 am solutions posted Last Lecture Last Meeting of R1	12/5 Last Meeting of R3
	12/9 Reading Day	12/11 First Day of Final Exams	12/12
	12/16	12/18 Last Day of Final Exams Our Final Exam: 3:30-6:30 Knox 109 Solutions posted

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Stuart C. Shapiro <shapiro@cse.buffalo.edu>