1. CSI 3120 Concepts of Programming Languages
Welcome to
CSI 3120 Concepts of Programming Languages

2. Contact information
Lecturer: Nathalie Japkowicz
Office: STE 5029
Phone: ext (not recommended)
My Web site:
Office hours:
Monday 2:45pm-3:45pm
Wednesday 1:15pm-2:15pm
by appointment (use )

3. Topics Scheme and Prolog review Syntactic Analysis ; Parsing
Preliminaries
Scheme and Prolog review
Evolution of the major programming languages
Describing the syntax of programming languages
Describing the semantics of programming languages
Syntactic Analysis ; Parsing
An introduction to Perl
Names, bindings, type checking, and scopes, Data types, Expressions and the assignment statement, Statement-level control structures
Implementing subprograms
Concurrency
Exception Handling

4. Lectures, textbook, Web site
Lectures, CSI 3120 A: Mondays 5:30pm-8:20pm, MNT 204
no class on Monday Oct. 8th (Thanksgiving)
Textbook:
Robert W. Sebesta, Concepts of Programming Languages, 8th ed., Addison-Wesley, 2007 Course web site:

5. Evaluation 4 assignments [HW] 35 marks midterm exam (80 min.) [MD]
final exam (3 hours) [FN]
45 marks
You must receive at least 32.5 of 65 exam marks:
if MD + FN < 32.5
then Total = (MD + FN ) * 1.5
else Total = MD + FN + HW;

6. Exams The exams are closed book, but a crib sheet will be allowed.
Midterm: Wednesday, October 24, 11:30am-12:20pm. Location: TBA

7. Assignments Tentative topic Posted Due
Preliminaries; History; Prolog; Scheme, Unix [8 marks]
Sept. 17
Oct. 1
Grammars; Axiomatic semantics; Parsing [9 marks]
Oct. 15
Perl [9 marks]
Nov. 5
Nov. 19
Design issues [9 marks]
Dec. 3

8. Assignments (continued)
Two written assignments (2, 4).
One programming assignments (3).
One mixed assignment (1)
All the assignments are individual.
Late penalty:
0.5 mark for each weekday
0.25 mark for each Saturday/Sunday/holiday