Fall 2011 CMSC 433

Programming Language Technologies and Paradigms

by Bill Pugh

• Web application and web services
• Secure software
• Concurrency
• Map reduce / hadoop style distributed computing

Books

There is one required textbook for the course:

• Java Concurrency in Practice

We will have a number of recommended and/or on-line resources for the course, including:

• Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce by Jimmy Lin and Chris Dyer (from Amazon)

Projects

• Project 1: Enhanced guest book
• Project 2: Web security, web goat, web scarab., Due Wednesday Sept 28th. form
• Project 3: Concurrency refresher. Due Oct 6th, 6pm. Javadoc
• Project 4: Fork join graph exploration: Due Oct 21st, 5pm. Javadoc
• Open source contribution:
  • Run FindBugs on a large open source project and find and fix bugs
  • Find XSS or other security vulerabilities in an open source program and fix them
  • openhatch.org Mostly non-Java
    • Training missions
    • Volunteer opportunity finding

Links/resources

• Bryan Robbins is our TA.
• Getting started with Google app engine
• Source forge project
• Piazza page
• Google docs folder
  • Syllabus, first day lecture
  • Cookie signups
  • Project 1 details
  • UMD link to Safari books
• Concurrency slides: Simpler, Faster, Better