Advanced Computer Programming

General Informations

Lectures

• Lecture 1, introduction and the pair programming experiment.
• Part 1. Data driven programming: a pattern-based computing flow programming language
  • An AWK tutorial
  • AWK Windows distribution
  • A tutorial log, a small log, a large log file and a sample Java source for experiments.
• Part 2. Data driven programming: performing complex tasks on data using functional programming
  • Slides of the lecture
  • A tutorial on Clojure
  • The clooj IDE
  • (temporary download it from here )
  • Latest Clojure distribution
  • Code developed during lecture 1
  • Code developed during lecture 2
  • Code developed during lecture 3
  • Example of Java -> Clojure -> Java interoperability.
  • xml example files
• Part 3. From Abstract Data Types to Generic Programming
  • Slides of the lecture
  • You might be interested in revising your Object Oriented Programming skills. Here you can find Oracle's Java Tutorials , full and very pedagogic.
  • More experienced programmers might have a look at the following book: J. Bloch, Effective Java, Addison-Wesley (2008) . It is available in our library. E.g.: try to find the "memory leak" in our examples!
  • The lecture topics and sample C++ source code are provided at the following page

The web page of the previous edition of the course (2014/2015) is still online at the following link .

Exam

• Functional Programming
• Data Driven Programming
• ADT, Parametric Types, Object Orientation
• Generic Programming and Metaprogramming
• Concurrent programming

1. double check your full understanding of the meaning of the techniques in the list , especially if you did not attend the lectures; just as an example: functional programming is not simply calling functions in your code; data driven programming is not simply reading and/or writing a file, etc. Unfortunately, a common reason of failures at the exam is to claim the use of a programming technique that is actually not used in the project.
2. sketch a possible application, think about a possible modular structure, and about which technique of the list above can be employed in each module
3. write a project proposal : a single page would be enough, including title and student name, two sentences about the application functionalities, and a block diagram reporting the application module structures and the programming techniques that you plan to use in each module.
4. send it to me by email as a .pdf file

Once the (approved) project is ready

• register for the exam in the online system
• submit your project, sending by email to me before the day of the exam call (a) a written report as a .pdf file highlighting the most significant parts of the project and clearly marking which of the required programming techniques have been used, how and why (b) full source code of the project.
• a few days after the exam call, I will publish the project evaluation on this website; the students having a positive evaluation will be contacted to agree on a day for an oral discussion about their project. The final evaluation will be given on the basis of both the project and the oral discussion.