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TIE-20306 Principles of Programming Languages

Autumn 2015

Basic Course Info

• Lecturer: Matti Rintala
• Main assistant: Jyke Savia
• Assistant: Pertti Lehtinen
• Web page: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~popl/
• Email: popl@cs.tut.fi

Important notice to students

• This is NOT the course TIE-02206 Basic course
• n Programming.
• If you accidentally thought so, could you please

unregister from this course in POP. ☺

Course Language

• Official course language is English
• Mutta suomeksikin voi kysyä, jos haluaa (but

you can ask questions in Finnish, if you wish)

• Lectures are in English
• Two English excercise groups, two Finnish
• Seminar presentations can be given in English

(preferred) or Finnish (presentations will be grouped based on language)

Prerequisites for the course

• Good knowledge of at least one programming

language (C++, Java, etc.)

• Experience in writing programs (larger than

simple toy programs)

• Knowledge of basic computer science terms

(recursion, algorithms, memory management, functions, parameters, objects, inheritance, modularity)

Some topics of the course

• Programming paradigms: Imperative, Functional, Logic, Script
• General syntax and semantics of languages
• Phases of program compilation and interpretation
• Variable lifetimes, binding and memory management
• Typing and type systems
• Subprograms and parameter passing mechanisms
• Compromises in implementing language features
• Generic programming, concurrency features,...
• Understanding WHY?

Course Timetable

• 24.8. Lectures start
• Soon Registration for weekly excercises and seminar starts
• Early September: Registration for seminar presentations starts
• Third lecture week: weekly excercises begin
• Mid September: Registration for seminar ends
• Early October: Seminar subjects given
• Middle of period 2: weekly excercises end
• Middle of period 2: seminar presentations begin
• End of period 2: First exam

Lectures

• Times

– Tuesday 14:15-16:00 in TB111 (periods 1 and 2) – Wednesday 10:15-12:00 in TB109 (period 1)

• Goal is discussion
• Lighter experience than textbook alone (I can

guarantee that!)

• Lecture slides will be published, but they are not

suitable for self-study without attending lectures

Course Material

• Maurizio Gabbrielli, Simone Martini,

Programming Languages: Principles and Paradigms, ISBN: 978-1-84882-913-8 (Print) 978-1-84882-914-5 (Online), Springer-Verlag, 2010

• (Maarit Harsu: Ohjelmointikielet — Periaatteet,

käsitteet, valintaperusteet, Talentum, 2005)

• Extra material on homepage, if needed

Lecture essays

• No. 1 course feedback: "I should have studied the

course subjects earlier, I should have attended the lectures..."

• Solution: Lecture essays
• Each week (on Wednesday/Thursday) a short essay

topic is given, based on next week's lectures

• Idea is to familiarize yourself on the subject, find out

questions / difficult parts. Helps lecture discussion.

• Each essay counts as one extra point in weekly

excercises, so: not compulsory, but affects the grade

• Returned to Moodle

Weekly Excercises

• Times

– Wednesday 10-12 TC103 in English – Thursday 10-12 TC103 in Finnish – Thursday 12-14 TC103 in Finnish – Friday 12-14 TC103 in English

• Begin on third lecture week (8.9. onwards)
• Questions in English. In Finnish groups,

Finnish/English answers are allowed. In English groups English only

Seminar

• Presentation (15 min), essay on subject, short

comparison with another group

• Compulsory part of course
• Done in pairs
• Excercise groups change into seminar groups on

second half of period 2

• Both English and Finnish seminar groups available
• Subjects will be chosen by the course staff

(programming languages and related subjects)

Grading

• 50 %: Grade from the exam (grade must be at

least 1)

• 25 %: Grade from the seminar: presentation +

paper essay (grade must be at least 1)

• 25 %: Grade from weekly excercises + active

participation in weekly excercises, returning lecture essays (grade must be at least 1)

Moodle learning platform

• Registration for seminar (required to pass the

course) in Moodle

• Registration to excercise groups in Moodle
• Answers to weekly excercises returned in Moodle
• Lecture essays returned to Moodle
• Moodle's discussion groups can also be used to

find a pair for the seminar

• Link to Moodle course is on the course web page