• Lectures and Assignments (tentative)
  There will be a 6- or 7-part programming project and up to 4 written homework assignments.

• Course Handouts
  Many handouts for the course will be provided here in several forms: as text-only (".txt" or ".text"), as source programs (".c" or ".cpp" or ".java"), as a Postscript file (".ps"), and as a PDF file (".pdf").

• Answers to questions
  Mostly those submitted by email.

• Instructor: Neal R. Wagner

Office: 3.02.16 SB.    Phone: (210)458-5550.   
Tentative Office hours: MWF 11 am -1 pm, MW 11-12 noon.
• Goals and Objectives
  The syllabus mentions course goals and objectives, while this link discusses them in more detail.

• Grading Policy
  Your grade will depend on a programming project, written homework, an in-class midterm exam, a final exam, and attendance.

• Dishonesty Policy
  As a new policy, you will need comments at the beginning of each programming assignment identifying any sources of program code that you did not write yourself.

• Textbook: Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
  By Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman, Addison-Wesley, 1986
  A classic in the field, written in 1986, the text is dated in a few respects, but this is a mature technology whose underpinnings have not been changing much. The other disadvantage of the text is that it is written at a fairly sophisticated level.  Here are sites related to purchasing the textbook.

• Description (From the UTSA Undergraduate Catalog):
  3723 Programming Languages (PDF)
  (3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: CS 3233 and 3323 (on-line catalog), CS 2213 and 3233 (printed catalog).
  An introduction to the organization of high-level programming languages, including data types, control structures, data flow, and run time environments. Use of formal syntax descriptions. The implications of interpretation versus compilation. Activation records and dynamic storage in block structured languages.

  Prerequisites: CS 3233 (Discrete Mathematical Structures) and the new course CS 2213 (Advanced Programming). These are both important prerequisites and you must have taken these courses to enroll in CS 3723.

• Students in the course
  A list of students in the course along with their web page, CS lan account, runner account, and e-mail address.

• Language Comparisons
  An elaborate comparison of execution times for various programs in various languages (supplied by Ryan Springer).

• Online Resources.

• Links to earlier versions of the course:
  Spring 2001,  Fall 2000,  Spring 2000, 

Mid-term Examination (Review, Answers : 24 Oct 2001

Final Examination (Review) : Tuesday, 11 December 2001, 8:00-10:15 pm