• Administrivia: instructor and grader information; office hours
• Course strategy and goals: what you will get out of this course
• Course requirements: description of requirements and breakdown of points
• Submitting assignments: how to submit your assignment
• Text: texts that we will use
• Plagiarism policy
• Mailing list: how to get on the class mailing list and post messages to it
• Detailed schedule: syllabus including readings, and dates for assignments and exams
• Resources: books/web-resources that may be useful

Administrivia

Course strategy and goals

• How to make the most effective use of language features in the languages you already use;
• Teach yourself new languages with relative ease;
• Evaluate the suitability of a language for a given task;

We will use case studies from a wide variety of languages, including both languages in common use and languages that are research prototypes.  This course will assume that you have already taken CSCI-3155 or equivalent.

Course requirements

Submitting assignments

All assignments and exams must be done on time except in the case of emergency.  All assignments should be submitted electronically as follows:

• Click here to access the submission page.
• Log in using your login name (this is the same one you use to log in to CU machines) and password (the password is initialized to the first 5 digits of your student ID).  Use csci5535 as the course.  Most students should already be in the system.  If you are not, email me your information  (student id, CU email, first name, last name).
• Click on the assignment you want to work on in "Pick the assignment you want to work on".  If it is an old assignment and you want to see your grade, click on that assignment in the "Pick an assignment to view feedback".
• Click on "fill out form" (this is to be used for all text assignments.  "write code" is for coding assignments).
• On this page you will have a text window for each question.  For each question, we identify it by giving the first line of the question.  You will need to look at the assignment description to see the full question.  
• Paste your solution in text format to each question and click on "submit".  Note that you can also type your solution directly into the forms rather than pasting it in.  However, the advantage of the pasting is that you will have another copy of your solution on your local machine in case there is a web or network problem.

Text

The readings for a class (see Schedule below) are compulsory and I will expect you to read them before you come to class.  

Plagiarism policy

I strongly encourage you to work together in learning the material.  For example, when starting on an assignment, it is perfectly reasonable and encouraged to sit down with other students and discuss the assignment and help each other understand the material needed for the assignment.  You should, however, write up (or code up) the assignment separately.  In your submission you should clearly indicate which students helped you in the assignment and on what questions.  Similarly, if you include any text, code, or figure from any source in your submitted work you should cite the original source at the point of the quotation..

Mailing list

List of topics

Resources

You can access slides and other materials from this course in 1999, 2000, and 2001.  I recommend using the exams and assignments in the previous years to prepare for your exams.