Carleton University

School of Computer Science

95.501 Foundations of Object-Oriented Programming Languages

Fall 2001

Instructor:

Dwight Deugo
Room 5356 HP
Phone Number: 8438
Office Hours:
Tuesday 1:30-2:30
Friday 2:30-3:30
email: deugo@scs.carleton.ca

Course Outline:

Object-Oriented programming, design and implementation from first principles to advanced concepts. Possible topics include: need-driven designing, metaleval programming, visual programming, event-oriented programming, web-related applications, subtyping/subclassing/is relationships, futures, and proxies, distributed applications.
Warning: Due to problems with the course calendar, the abstract for 95.501 does not adequately reflect the course's content. In addition to the object-oriented programming paradigm, the course will also cover the functional and the logic programming paradigms and how the three relate to one another. The unifying theme between the three paradigms is their ability to create abstractions, and after taking the course you will be in a better position to create effective and powerful object-oriented abstractions. The computer language used for the course will be Scheme. If you are taking the course to learn Java,C++, or Smalltalk you should take 95.105, 95.106, or 95.202 instead. If you want a 'pure' object-oriented graduate course, 95.514 would be a better selection. Note, 95.501 is no longer a prerequisite for 95.514.

Prerequisites:

Significant Programming Experience

News:

Assignment 4 is available
Assignment 3 is available
Assignment 2 is available
Schedule until end of term

Nov 16, Assignment 3 due
Nov 30, Assignment 4 (short) due
Dec 7, Project Due
Dec 13, Take-Home Final Exam. CLICK THIS LINK ATER 9:00 A.M. ON DEC 13 TO ACCESS EXAM
Dec 16, Take-Home Final Exam, due
Dec 17, Project Demo (Pick time below)

Notes

MIT Scheme Reference Manual

MIT Scheme String Functions

Scheme Language Specification: The Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme

Structure and Interpretation of Computing Programs

Projects (Due Nov 30, 2001)

Enable metacircular interpreter to load into itself multiple times
Extend metacircular interpreter with other special forms (let*, delay, force, cons-stream, car-stream, cdr-stream, make sure lazy pairs and lists, and thunks will print).
Develop Scheme development environment using Eclipse
Developer metacircular interpreter in another language, such as Java
Deveop Prolog interpreter in another language, such as Java or Scheme

Assignments

Darrel's TA Page and Assignment Guidelines

Projects:

Student Name	Project	Demos Monday Dec 17, (10 a.m. - 1 p.m.) Please pick a time on the hour or in 15 minute increments
Housein Houreich	Prolog emulator in Java	12:45 p.m.
Ghada Hany Badr	Extend metacircular interpreter	10:00 a.m.
Andrew Forward	Scheme editor using Eclipse
Nancy Samaan	Extend metacircular interpreter	12:15 p.m.
Yvonne Bleischwitz	Graphs	10:30 a.m.
Jamileh Yousefi	Extend metacircular interpreter	10:15 a.m.
Mao Han	Develop metacircular interpreter in PERL	11:00 a.m.
Duan	Develop metacircular interpreter in Java	Noon
Tim Bergsma	Extend metacircular interpreter	1:00 p.m.
Xiuli Zhang	Develop metacircular interpreter in Java	12:30 p.m.
Yunlan Wang	Developer metacircular interpreter in Java	11:15 a.m.
David Xu	Develop metacircular interpreter in Java	11:45 a.m.
Mahdi Kazemi	Extend metacircular interpreter with other special forms	10:45 a.m.
Zhenghong Zhu	Extend metacircular interpreter	11:30 a.m.
Ron Arnold	Extend metacircular interpreter	1:15 p.m.

Marks:

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