Computer Science 433
Programming Languages

Fall 2014, The College of Saint Rose

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Agenda

• Welcome to Programming Languages!
• Introduction
  • We will study many important issues here
  • What is this course about?
  • Why so many programming languages?
  • Evaluation of languages
• Administrivia
• mogul.strose.edu setup
• SubmissionBox setup

  We will be using a system called "SubmissionBox," developed by software engineering students here at Saint Rose, for the submission of most of your work this semester. We'll start by making sure everyone can log in and submit a test assignment before we move on to the first in-class exercise.

  First, everyone will need to come up to get their SubmissionBox account set up (or updated, if you have previously used it) to be used for this course.

  Once your SubmissionBox account is ready to go, create a document (a plain text or Word document, for example) and save it somewhere on your computer. Then log into SubmissionBox, and submit this document under assignment "SBTest". Verify that you received an email confirmation for this submission.

Lecture 1 Assignment

Due at the start of class, Wednesday, August 27.

Please submit answers to these questions in Submission Box under "LA1" or in hard copy by the start of our next class. We will discuss these questions at the start of class, so no late submissions are accepted. Please be sure that your name is clearly indicated in all submissions.

The readings for next class are Sebesta Chapters 1 (more important) and 2 (interesting and helpful, but not essential for our main course goals).

Note: none of the "Review Questions" at the end of Chapter 1 are part of this assignment, but you should be able to answer all of them. Please ask if you have questions about any of them.

1. I would like to get a better feel for everyone's backgrounds coming in. Please answer each of the following. (4 points)
   • What is your name, year, and major?
   • If you are not a Computer Science major, are you considering it?
   • Which computer science courses have you taken, and where and when did you take them?
   • What was your high school and home town?
   • Which programming languages have you used and how complex were the programs you developed in each?
   • What is your favorite restaurant in your home town and what should I order there?
   • What types of computers (e.g., PC running Windows, Mac, Linux. tablets) have you used?
   • How much experience do you have navigating the Unix/Linux command line?
2. Make sure you can log into mogul.strose.edu. As evidence of this, copy and paste the output when you issue the command w when you log in. (1 point)
3. Sebesta Problem Set Question 6, p. 34. (1 point)
4. Sebesta Problem Set Question 7, p. 34. (2 points)
5. Sebesta Problem Set Question 8, p. 34. (2 points)
6. Sebesta Problem Set Question 15, p. 34. (2 points)

Examples

Late penalty graph:

• late

Links

• Programs that print the lyrics to 99 Bottles of Beer in 1500 different languages and variations (as of August 2014)