Computer Science 340
Programming Languages

Fall 2019, Siena College

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Agenda

• Announcements
  • Informational session by the Siena Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Wednesday 10/23 at 12:45 in RB 340. See the email from Dr. Small for more information and RSVP to her if you would like to attend.
  • Language Project [HTML] [PDF] : use the shared document to mention your ideas
• Exam 1 back and brief additional discussion
• Read Sebesta Sections 6.10-6.14 for Monday
• Problem Set 5: [HTML] [PDF] out
• Data types

Terminology

• primitive data type
• most/least significant bit
• endianness
• big endian/little endian/network byte order
• signed magnitude
• excess n
• 1's complement
• 2's complement
• floating-point representations
• scientific notation
• mantissa
• exponent
• floating point underflow
• bias
• complex data
• binary coded decimal
• enumerated type
• subrange type

Examples

• show_bytes
• ccomplex
• enum
• hello_pascal
• pascal_subrange

Links

• Enum Types at Oracle's Java Tutorials