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 due Monday night
  • Problem Set 7: [HTML] [PDF] on the late clock
  • grading update
• Control structures wrapup
• Chapter 8 Discussion Notes wrapup (see the link in your email and/or in Canvas)
• Subprograms
• (Maybe) starting work on the Chapter 9, Sections 1-5 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 6-11, 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

• subprogram/procedure/subroutine/function/method
• subprogram definition
• subprogram call
• subprogram header/specification/interface
• type, name, parameters, body of a subprogram
• parameter profile/signature
• protocol
• subprogram declaration
• formal parameter/actual parameter
• positional parameters/keyword parameters
• default parameters
• variadic functions

Examples

• subprograms

Links

• F90 Keyword arguments and default arguments
• Wikipedia article "Variadic function"
• Using the Parameter Array