Saturday, October 30, 2010

November 11 - December 9 class schedule

Thurs 11/11 NO CLASSES Veteran's Day
Tues 11/16 Start Language Presentation
Thurs 11/18 Language Presentations continue
Tues  11/23 Language Presentations
Thurs 11/25 No class
Tues 11/30 Group Project Presentations Begin
Thurs 12/2 Group Project Presentations continue
Thurs 12/9 Language Papers and group project papers are due
Thurs 12/9 Final Opportunity Session

Homework Assignment Received 10/28/2010 DUE 11/4/2010



Thursday, October 21, 2010

Individual Paper Topics

Papers are to be 5-7 pages in length, include why the language is important, areas of application for the language, why the language is useful and key features of the language.  (Of course the above applies if the paper topic is a language as not all of the options are languages).   Be sure and sign up on the Paper Topic sign up sheet that Hugh has to ensure the topic has not already been taken.
  • Pearl(2)
  • Lisp
  • PHp
  • C#
  • Python
  • .net(2)
  • E
  • Prolog
  • JavaScript(2)
  • Ruby
*(2) indicates that 2 people can pick this topic.  Each person writes their own paper, but coordinate the presentation such that they present on the topic together.

Assignment Due 10/28/2010 VarVec Modified

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Homework Assignment Due October 21, 2010

Polymorphism Assignment from our class notes, page VFun/Poly 9

Abstract base class called Figure, with int dem
Constructor, no destructor
Methods: area, objectType

concrete classes derived from the Figure class are:
Square - dem is the side
Circle - dem is the Radious
Eq. Triangle - dem is the side