CMSC 330, Spring 2011

Important announcements related to the course will be posted here. Please check this page daily.

May 15 - Letter grades are now available on the grade server. They will be entered into the campus database on Monday.
May 13 - Final exam scores are available on the grade server. If you want to review your final exam, contact your professor. Final course grades will be computed within a few days. Yes, there will be a curve. No, we don't know what the curve will be yet.
Final Exam is Thu, May 12, 4-6pm in CHM 1407.
May 11 - Final exam PANIC review session. 7:30pm to 9:30pm in CSIC 1115.
May 9 - Quiz 4 and sample solutions are posted on the schedule page.
May 6 - Here is a list of all the topics in the course, to help you study for the final exam.
May 4 - We're holding some extra office hours in the last few days before the final. The regular office hours schedule runs through Mon, May 9; the schedule for May 10-12 is below.
May 4 - Sample solutions to practice problems 6 are posted.
May 2 - Practice problems 6 are available on the schedule page; solutions will be posted soon.
May 1 - The last day to earn the "meet the professor" point is Tuesday, May 10.
Apr 26 - There will be a quiz in discussion section on Friday, Apr 29, covering lambda calculus. Also, part 4 of project 5 is now optional (for extra credit).
Apr 25 - Project 5 is available.
Apr 19 - Practice problem set 5 has been posted.
Apr 15 - Here is a histogram of the midterm 2 scores.
Apr 14 - Midterm 2 scores are posted on the grades server. Midterms will be returned in discussion section tomorrow.
Apr 12 - TONIGHT special midterm panic review session by Asad at 7pm-9pm in CSIC 2117. Thursday hours shortened to 2:30-3:30pm. (And you thought the blink tag was dead.)
Apr 11 - Quiz 3 and a sample solution have been posted (see the bottom of the schedule page).
Apr 5 - Here is a one-slide overview of the topics on midterm 2.
Apr 4 - There will be a quiz in discussion section on Friday, April 8.
Apr 1 - Practice problem set 4 has been posted.
Mar 30 - Project 4 is avaialble. Some additoinal practice problems have also been posted.
Mar 11 - Please submit any regrade requests for midterm 1 by Monday, Mar 14.
Mar 11 - There was a bug in the previous public tests for project 3; please be sure to download the latest version.
Mar 7 - Project 3 is posted. We've also now posted sample solutions to midterm 1.
Mar 4 - Here is a histogram of the midterm 1 scores.
Mar 3 - Midterm 1 scores are posted on the grades server. Midterms will be returned in discussion section tomorrow.
Mar 1 - Example midterms from previous semesters are posted on the bottom of the schedule web page. (They've been there for a while, but we're posting a reminder since we didn't announce it here before.)
Feb 23 - Here is a list of topics on midterm 1.
Feb 23 - Asad is moving 1h of office hours from Mar 3 and 1h from Mar 10 to create a Night Before Midterm Panic Session on Tues Mar 1 from 7-9pm. So his office hours on Mar 3 will be from 2:30-3:30 and same for Mar 10.
Feb 21 - There will be a quiz in discussion section on Friday, Feb 25.
Feb 18 - Another set of practice questions and solutions have been posted (see the bottom of the schedule page).
Feb 15 - Some typos in the regexp/finite automata slides have been fixed.
Feb 14 - There will be a quiz in discussion section on Friday, Feb 18. Review practice questions 1 to study for the quiz.
Feb 11 - Project 2 is now available.
Feb 10 - Some sample written questions and solutions are now posted to help you prepare for future quizzes and midterms.
Feb 1 - Student accounts should now be active on the submit server, though project 1 is not yet accessible there.
Jan 28 - Due to the missed lecture on Wednesday, we have pushed the due date for Project 1 to Fri, Feb 11.
Jan 26 - Project 1 is available.
Jan 24 - Linuxlab accounts for everyone are now available. You can get your username and password on the grade server.
Jan 21 - There will be no office hours the week of Jan 24.

Office hours before final

Staff

Name	Office	E-mail	Office Hours (also available by appointment)
Prof. Rance Cleaveland	AVW 4111	rance at cs.umd.edu	Mo 3:30-4:30, We 12:30-1:30
Prof. Jeff Foster	AVW 4129	jfoster at cs.umd.edu	Mo 12:00-1:00, Tu 1:00-2:00
Jinseong Jeon	Will meet in TA room	jsjeon at cs.umd.edu	Tu 4:00-5:00, Fr 1:00-3:00
Bryan Robbins	Will meet in TA room	brobbins at cs.umd.edu	Tu 2:00-4:00
Asad Sayeed	Will meet in TA room	asayeed at cs.umd.edu	Th 1:30-3:30
Ke Wu	Will meet in TA room	wuke at cs.umd.edu	Mo 10:30-12:00, Th 3:30-5:00

Office hours by day

Information

Course Description A study of programming languages, including their syntax, semantics, and implementation. Several different models of languages are discussed, including procedural, functional, and object-oriented. Language features such as formal syntax, scoping and binding of variables, higher-order programming, typing and type polymorphism, and object inheritance are explored.
Lecture Location CSI 3117 (0101, 0102, 0103) and 1115 (0201, 0202, 0203)
Lecture Times Monday and Wednesday 2:00-3:15pm (0101, 0102, 0103) and 3:30-4:45pm (0201, 0202, 0203)
Textbooks There are no required or recommended texts. See the resources page for useful online links.