Faculty Contact Information:
Class meeting times: October 29/30; November 12/13; December 3/4 and 17/18.
The term begins October 29 and ends December 18, 2005.
INSTRUCTOR: Edmund I. Deaton
e-mail: edeaton@faculty.ed.umuc.edu
phone: 49 (0)6224 926 165 (h) 49 (0)17626 160 591 (c)
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Consultation:
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Dr. Deaton will be available 30 minutes before each class meeting and after each class meeting. He is available by appointment, e-mail and telephone. We will also use Web Tycho for consultation.
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Required Texts and Readings:
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Sebesta, Robert W. (2006). Concepts of Programming Languages, (7th ed.). Boston: Pearson/Addison Wesley. (ISBN 0-321-33025-0)
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Supplementary Readings:
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The standard for papers in the graduate program is the APA style. All participants in this course and all graduate INSS, MGMT, PUAD, and ECON courses should have a copy of the style guide:
American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th Edition. Washington DC: Author. All graduate students should be prepared to utilize the UMUC online library at http://www.umuc.edu/library/. The library contains a large number of full text academic journals that are free of charge and immediately available. The library homepage also contains a number of links related to improving students' research and writing skills.
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Recommended Journals:
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Publications of the various professional societies (such as ACM -- the Association for Computing Machinery, the IEEE Computing Society, and the various management professional societies) are strongly recommended. In addition, there are many trade journals (such as eWEEK) that MIS professionals should become familiar with, many of these being published both weekly and on-line.
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Course Description:
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3 semester hours credit. Prerequisites: Undergraduate programming and college algebra, or permission of the Program Director. Recommended prerequisite: INSS 510. Provides an in-depth look at software from a design and implementation perspective. Language semantics and syntax issues are explored. Specification and implementation of data structures are examined. Characteristics of non-procedural, heuristic and object-oriented languages are discussed. Current developments in software engineering methodologies are reviewed as well as research into the improvement of those practices. Software project management concepts and software quality issues are also addressed. Students will be required to complete programming projects.
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Course Goals:
Upon completion of the course, participants should be conversant in:
1. Major attributes of several programming languages
2. Tradeoffs in programming language design and usage
3. Data types and abstract data types
4. Basic data structures
5. Structured programming
6. How a programming language can support good software engineering
7. Computational complexity and its relationship to software quality
8. The principal programming paradigms: imperative/procedural, object-oriented, functional/applicative, logic, and concurrent programming
9. Current issues in programming languages
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Course Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course the student will be able to:
1. Describe and apply the fundamental criteria needed to evaluate and compare computer programming languages
2. Demonstrate understanding of the underlying concepts of programming languages such as: syntax, semantics, binding, type checking, scope, data types, expressions, control structures, and subprograms
3. Describe the major programming paradigms; recognize differences between imperative, object-oriented, functional and logic programming languages
4. Compare and contrast the different capabilities of programming languages and evaluate languages for various programming problems
5. Characterize a given program or algorithm in terms of its computational complexity and efficiency
6. Compare and contrast different implementations of standard data structures such as lists, stacks, and queues
7. Describe concepts of object-oriented programming such as encapsulation, inheritance, dynamic binding, and polymorphism
8. Apply understanding of software engineering practices to software quality assurance
9. Apply programming concepts in making software management decisions
10. Research and discuss current issues in programming languages
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Grading Information:
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Grades for this course will be assigned as follows:
A 90 - 100%
B 80 – 89%
C 70 – 79%
F Below 70%
Please note that Bowie State University does not use "D" for graduate students. The grade F is used to designate academic failure. F(n) is used to designate failure for non-completion. Grades of Incomplete or Withdrawal are governed by UMUC-Europe policies. For further details, please refer to the UMUC-Europe Graduate Catalog, available in your local Education Center or online at http://www.ed.umuc.edu/general_info/publications/catalogs/.
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Course Requirements:
Graduate school at the masters level focuses on helping students obtain the education needed for success as professionals in their chosen fields. Thus, UMUC-Europe Graduate Programs and Bowie State University share the common goals of promoting excellence in academic scholarship through thoughtful inquiry and the skillful application of knowledge and theory for the betterment of society.
In order to maximize your graduate educational experience in general and this course in particular, you are required to:
20% - Minor Assignments, Exercises, Participation in classroom discussions
20% - Programming Assignments
15% - Group Research Project
20% - Mid Term Examination
25% - Final Examination
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Description of Course Requirements:
Participate in classroom discussions: You are expected to come to class prepared to engage in all discussions in a professional and informed manner. This requires a significant time commitment.
Complete two programming assignments, study a program written in another language and write a group research paper on a programming language: You are required to conduct professional-level research, including appropriately citing works of others and avoiding plagiarism.
Complete graduate level projects or programming assignments, write graduate level papers or case studies: You are required to conduct professional-level research, including appropriately citing works of others and avoiding plagiarism.
Resubmission of course work from previous classes (whether or not taken at UMUC, UMUC-Europe or BSU), partially or in its entirety, is not acceptable in this course and will result in an automatic failure on the assignment
Orally/visually present prepared material: You are required to present your results in a professional manner. This typically means an oral presentation accompanied by appropriate visual material.
Complete two written examinations: The examination process in this class will assist you in developing the writing and critical thinking skills necessary for successfully passing the comprehensive exam required of all graduate students. Some examination questions used for this course will either be taken directly from past comprehensive exams or written as though to be included on a comprehensive exam.
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Course Schedule:
This schedule presents 16 units or modules, with each unit corresponding to a regular three-hour weekday meeting.
Initial meeting: October 29 am
Review of syllabus
Clarification of goals, objectives and requirements
Orientation to subject
Read Chapters 1 and 2: Preliminaries; Evolution of the Major
Programming Languages.
October 29 pm: Read Chapters 3 and 4: Describing Syntax and Semantics; Lexical and Syntax Analysis
October 30 am: Read Chapter 5: Names, Bindings, Type Checking, and Scopes
October 30 pm: Read Chapter 6: Data Types.
November 12 am: Read Chapter 7: Expressions and Assignment Statements
The Study of a Program Assignment is Due.
November 12 pm: Read Chapter 8: Statement-Level Control Statements
November 13 am: Review and Exercises.
November 13 pm: Mid Term Examination
December 3 am: Read Chapters 9 and 10: Subprograms; Implementing Subprograms
December 3 pm: Read Chapter 11: Abstract Data Types
December 4 am: Read Chapter 12: Support for Object-Oriented Programming
December 4 pm: Read Chapter 13: Concurrency. Programming Assignment #1 is Due.
December 17 am: Read Chapter 14: Exception Handling
December 17 pm: Read Chapters 15 and 16: Functional and Logic Programming Languages.
December 18 am : Final Examination
December 18 pm: Presentation of Group Projects. Programming Assignment #2 is Due. Course Evaluations
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Academic Policies:
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The University has a license agreement with Turnitin.com, a service that helps prevent plagiarism from internet resources. I may be using this service in this class by either requiring students to submit their papers electronically to Turnitin.com or by submitting questionable text on behalf of a student. If you or I submit part or all of your paper, it will be stored by Turnitin.com in their database throughout the term of the University's contract with Turnitin.com. If you object to this temporary storage of your paper, you must let me know no later than two weeks after the start of this class. Please Note: If you object to the storage of your paper on Turnitin.com, I may utilize other services to check your work for plagiarism The official university policy on Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty can be found at http://www.umuc.edu/policy/aa15025.shtml. Section I.C. states: "Faculty may determine if the resubmission of course work from previous classes (whether or not taken at UMUC), partially or in its entirety, is acceptable when assigning a grade on that piece of course work. Faculty must provide this information in their written syllabi. If the resubmission of course work is deemed to be unacceptable, a charge may not be brought under this Policy and will be handled as indicated in the written syllabi."
Please refer to Description of Course Requirements for specific information on how resubmissions will be treated in this course and to the UMUC-Europe Graduate Catalog for information on the following:
Academic Integrity
Course Load
Exception to Policy
Grade Appeal Process
Make-up Examinations
Nondiscrimination
Students with Disabilities
Code of Civility
Hard copies of the catalog are available at your local Education Center.
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Faculty Bio:
INSTRUCTOR: Edmund I. Deaton
Dr. Deaton received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from The University of Texas. He has been teaching and doing research in Computer Science since 1980. After many years at San Diego State University he retired in 1992. He was a visiting professor at Hope College, Holland, Michigan during 1993-1995. He spent two years at Oklahoma State University from 1980 to 1982 as a visiting professor and visited there again in 1992. He worked as a management consultant with a Southern California consulting firm for several years in the 1980's. He specialized in database design for governmental entities. He has been with the University of Maryland, European Division since 1995. He teaches in the graduate MIS program and also teaches undergraduate computer science courses. His academic specialty is data base design. His primary hobbies are hiking and Alpine climbing. Although based in Heidelberg, he calls Rota, Spain home and hopes to be assigned there for some time each year. He is currently living in Heidelberg, Germany and will be there at least until the end of this course.
e-mail: edeaton@faculty.ed.umuc.edu
phone: 49 (0)6224 926 165 (h) 49 (0)17626 160 591 (c)
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