CS350 :: I Sem 2018-19

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

The main textbook for the course is:

  1. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming by Peter van Roy and Seif Haridi, MIT Press, 2004.

We will follow the first 5 chapters of the textbook. Following this, we will study one or two programming languages that illustrate the concepts. Past courses have covered Erlang, Smalltalk and Ruby.

The TA for the course is Subin Pulari.

Meeting Hours: In case you need to discuss something about the course, homeworks, or projects you want to independently work on, you can meet me in my office if I am there, or fix an appointment by first mailing me.

2 Grading Policy

The overall grading weightage breakup is given as follows.

Type Weightage
Homeworks (4 or 5) 20%
Quizzes (2) 30%
Midsem 20%
Endsem 30%

Some homeworks may require working in groups of 2.

3 Lecture Outlines

4 Homeworks

Homework 1 Due: August 24 11:59 PM IST

Homework 2 Due: October 10.

Homework 3 Due: October 26.

Homework 4 Due: November 16.

5 References

Author: Satyadev Nandakumar

Created: 2018-08-14 Tue 21:56

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