198:314 Principles of Programming Languages
SPRING 2004
Old Announcements


April 19, 2004 Please hand in the C++ assignment in the same manner as the C project, except for using proj3 instead of proj2.

April 7, 2004 C++ assignment/homework posted here. It is due April 19th, and will be worth something in between a programming project and a regular homework, since you do not have to turn in running code.

April 6, 2004: FINAL EXAM IN CS314 IS SCHEDULED ON MONDAY, MAY 10th; previous announcement of exam date of Weds, May 12th was in error. Please plan accordingly.

  • April 5, 2004: Prof DeCarlo's office hours on Thursday (4/8) are cancelled this week

    April 4, 2004: Last-minute office hours on Monday evening by Prof DeCarlo will be in the ARC lab, from 6:30-9pm.

    March 31, 2004: read this text about handing in Project 2

    March 31, 2004: With Project 2 due Monday, some office hours this week are being moved to ARC and extended.

    Please come with your questions on the C project (even if you're in a different section). Just look around for us, or ask the desk consultant if you can't find us. There will also be "last-minute" office hours by Prof DeCarlo on Monday evening--stay tuned.

    March 25, 2004 Our department is holding an Open House all day Friday, March 26, 2004. Featured will be Tsvi Gil, CIO of Warner Music talking about problems of music piracy and a panel in the afternoon on Offshore Outsourcing of Jobs in IT. There also will be short faculty research presentations and posters/demos by various research groups in the department. Students are welcome to attend this event. (Of course, Prof Ryder's 314 lecture will be held Friday afternoon as usual.)

    March 25 (12:04 AM) Grading scheme for the scheme project (pun intended) is available Here. .

    March 23, 2004 There has been a minor change to hw5 .

    March 11, (10:36pm) Your grades for the Midterm and Project 1 have been posted. YAY! They're available through the Rutgers WebCT system here . Just login, select cs314 as your course (all sections are under one link, eventhough only one professor is listed) and then choose "GRADES".

    March 11, 2004 (6:30pm) There is new nonprogramming homework posted, due the week after Spring Break.

    March 11, 2004 (very early): The C project is now posted on the projects page. Note the due date has been changed to April 5, 2004. One of the files you need for the assignment, main.c, is not yet ready. We will be posting it shortly.

    March 1, 2004: Additional office hours for those of you working down-to-the-wire will be tonight (Monday) from 7-9 pm in the ARC computer lab, by Prof. DeCarlo. I'll be in one of those rooms -- just look around for me. (You're welcome to come, even if you're in one of the other sections.)

    February 27, 2004: The MIDTERM EXAM will be a CLOSED BOOK exam; no notes will be allowed. The topics to be covered on the MIDTERM include the material on the syllabus identified as Lectures 1 - 10. This is the material that will have been covered in all the classes as of today. There will be NO C questions on the MIDTERM.

    February 26, 2004: This is a link to some questions that have been perenially posted to practice on when studying for 314 tests. Solutions will be discussed in recitation. (Caveat: this is not a full sample test, and "our individual mileage may vary" ;-)

    February 25, 2004: The MIDTERM EXAM will be held from 2:50-4:10pm on Friday, March 5, 2004. Location

    BE PREPARED TO COME 15 minutes EARLY in order to take your seat. Bring your Rutgers student ID with you to the exam. Review the rules for taking CS exams, found on this website.

    February 22, 2004: Directions for electronic handin of assignments are now posted on the projects page.

    February 18, 2004: Clarification to academic integrity regarding homeworks: This note is to re-enforce our classroom announcements about working by yourselves on the weekly written assignments and the programming projects. Do not discuss assignments or projects with other students, take notes on these discussions, and hand in very similar results. Read the website about academic integrity (below), if you have any questions about the meaning of "too close collaboration" on assignments or projects (the website discusses programming projects but it pertains to written homework in cs314 as well).

    February 18, 2004: Sometimes the TAs will post answers to the written homeworks on their recitation websites; homework answers will be presented regularly in recitation.

    February 18, 2004: Midterm test conflicts If you have a conflict with the midterm test (scheduled for Friday, March 5, 2004, 2:50-4:10 pm), you must e-mail your instructor the relevant information by next Wednesday, February 25th. Please include the conflicting course number, and the name and email of the course's instructor.

    February 18, 2004: Clarifications will be made on Project 1 regularly (they will be marked in red). Look back at it regularly.

    February 11, 2004: How to log onto remus and use Scheme from RUCS Computer Labs

    February 10, 2004: Project 1 (Due 3/1) is now posted here. Get started soon!

    February 10, 2004: Grading scheme for HW1 is available here.

    February 5,2004: Second homework has been shortened -- only parts [A] and [B] are due next week. (Hurrah!) And Stephen Max has graciously donated additional formal language excercises, for those who want to do more practice on their own.

    February 4,2004: Second homework has been posted.

    February 4, 2004: Written homeworks will continue to be posted usually weekly on the class website. These will be collected on Weds in Prof DeCarlo's lecture, on Thurs in Prof Borgida's lecture and on Fri in Prof Ryder's lecture.

    A new syllabus with tentative due dates has been posted through the link below.

    January 28, 2004: There is an errata page for your Louden textbook available here.

    There are now reserve reading materials in the SERC Reading Room on the Busch campus; announcements on our course webpages may reference these readings, as appropriate.

    A tentative schedule for topics and project due dates for the entire semester is now available. The finalized dates for projects will be given on the project webpage.

    Book homework for the class will be posted each Wedsnesday to be collected in your Wednesday or Thursday lecture during the following week. Specific answers to some of these homework problems will discussed in recitation. Some weeks problems chosen at random from these homeworks will be spot-checked, graded, and returned during recitation; these grades will count towards your final grade in the course. There will be test questions modeled after some of these homework problems as well. Our first assignment is now posted on our homework webpage.

    January 24, 2004: The recitation room for section 6 has been changed to SEC-217 (the old room was SEC-207)

    January 20, 2004: There will be NO RECITATION during the first week of classes; recitations will start as of January 26, 2004.

    Last updated at 1:37pm April 26, 2004 by B. Ryder