Computer Science 340
Programming Languages

Fall 2023, Siena College

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Agenda

• Announcements
  • Language Project [HTML] [PDF]
    • next deadline is the progress report on November 20
  • Problem Set 7: [HTML] [PDF] due tomorrow night
• Exam 2 recap
• Problem Set 6: [HTML] [PDF] recap
• Control structures
• Chapter 8 Discussion Notes (see the link in your email and/or in Canvas)
• Assignment due in Canvas at the start of our next class: Read Sebesta Chapter 9, Sections 1-5, and indicate that you have done so by entering your name as your response in the Canvas assignment. This assignment is worth 20 points in the "Assignments" category. We will be spending some time in class on Thursday working through some of the questions at the end of the chapter as a group.

Terminology

• control structures
• selection statement
• conditional statements
• dangling else
• counter-controlled/logic-controlled loops
• initial/terminal/step values
• discrete range
• pre-test/post-test loops
• iterator

Examples

• control

Links

• For Loops in Ada Control, Wikibooks
• "More Control Flow" in The Python Tutorial
• Letters to the editor: go to statement considered harmful