CSE 341: Syllabus, Autumn 2001

CSE 341

Programming Languages

Autumn 2001

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington

Steve Tanimoto (instructor), Richard Cox and Jeff West (teaching assistants).

 

Syllabus

(most recently updated on 30 September 2001)

Tentative list of topics to be covered:

Grading -- approximate percentages

Late Policy for Homework

Unless otherwise noted, if an assignment is turned in after the beginning of the class at which the assignment is due, but within one hour of the deadline, 10% off.  Between 1 hour and 1 day late, 15% off. Between 1 day and 1 week late, 20% off.  After 1 week late, 10% per additional week late.
 

Policy on Collaboration

WARNING: Unless indicated otherwise in writing, each assignment is to be done by each student individually and independently.  Students are encouraged to study together and help each other in debugging.  However, sharing a solution with another student before the assignment is due or looking at someone else's solution and subsequently modifying your own before the assignment is due is inappropriate.  Student solutions judged by the TA and instructor to be suspiciously similar may lead to prosecution under the College of Engineering's policy on academic misconduct.
 

Texts

1. Steven Tanimoto: Symbols, Programs, Interaction: An Introduction to Common Lisp  (Lisp Notes for CSE 341, Sept. 2001). Copies can be purchased or ordered (1 day turnaround) for about $14.75 from Professional Copy N Print at 4200 University Way, N.E.

2. Patrick Niemeyer and Jonathan Knudsen: Learning Java. O'Reilly, 2000. (available at the University Bookstore).

3. Robert W. Sebesta A Little Book on PerlPrentice-Hall, 2000. (available at the University Bookstore).
 
 
 

References on Lisp

There are a number of online resources for LISP. Here are some of them.

References on Java

Here are some Java references to help you get started.
Here's the Java online documentation (for the JDK 1.1 version).
 
 

References on ML


You can download and install ML on either a Windows PC or a Linux system. Visit This page for download links and installation information.
 
Robert Harper at Carnegie-Mellon University has posted a nice tutorial introduction to ML. A slightly old HTML version is here. He also has a large downloadable document with a more recent version.
 
Here's the book A Gentle Introduction to ML by Andrew Cumming at Napier Univ.
 

References on Visual Languages

 A few VL references are here:

References on Prolog

 Here are some links for Prolog:

References on Perl

 Here are a few of the many online resources for Perl:


Course Mailing List:

Our email list is: cse341@cs.washington.edu
The archive is here.
 
 

General References on Unix and  HTML


For those of you who are new to Unix, you might like to read the local ACM chapter's tutorial on Unix or look at this web site.

For HTML, you can look at web page sources in Netscape by clicking on View and then selecting Page Source.
You can also read about HTML here.

For information on the Emacs text editor check this local page, which covers the Windows versions.  Here's the GNU Emacs online manual.