Lecturer InfoEdward Osinskiosinski `at' cs `.' nyu `.' edu Room 328, WWH Office Hours: Thursday 8:30 - 9:30PM and by appointment |
Teaching Assistant InfoGiuseppe Narzisinarzisi `at' nyu `.' edu Room 1010, 715 Broadway Office Hours: Tuesday 3:00 - 5:00PM |
We will examine basic concepts underlying the design of modern general-purpose programming languages: types, control structures, abstraction mechanisms, inheritance, concurrency, garbage collection, constructs for programming in the large, etc. Implementation issues and data structures will be discussed. There will be programming assignments in several languages, functional and imperative. The languages are chosen because of the interest of their features, not necessarily because of their wide use. We will touch on Ada, C++, Java, Scheme, ML, and Haskell, and mention others.
Undergraduate courses in data structures and algorithms or equivalent, as well as familiarity and programming experience in C, C++, Ada, Java, Pascal or a similar language.
Please sign up for the class mailing list as soon as possible. (It should be available a few days before class starts.) We will use this for various announcements and students can use it to discuss various homework problems, ask for clarification, etc.
There will be a number of programming assignments in various languages. In all cases, I will specify the compiler/interpreter to use, which will be available on the CIMS Solaris machines. You can work on the assignment on whatever machines you feel comfortable, but what you hand in must compile and run correctly on the Solaris compilers. Please make sure you have no problems logging in to your account as soon as possible.
Don't do it! The work you hand in should be your own. You can read the department's policy here. Violations are taken very seriously; here is a quote from the link above:
"Departmental policy is to give a grade of F in the course in which the cheating occurred."
If you find yourself falling behind, please see me before it's too late.