Instructor: Professor James A. Jones

Email: jajones@uci.edu

Class Time: Tuesday, Thursday 3:30pm–4:50pm

Class Location: MSTB 110

Instructor Office Hours: After class, or by appointment.

Course Exam: Tuesday, Mar. 21. 4:00pm–6:00pm

Textbook (Required): Exercises in Programming Style by Cristina Lopes

GitHub Repository containing all example Python code: GitHub

List of stop words: https://github.com/crista/exercises-in-programming-style/blob/master/stop_words.txt

Pride and Prejudice book text: https://github.com/crista/exercises-in-programming-style/blob/master/pride-and-prejudice.txt

Successfully pass the test: https://github.com/crista/exercises-in-programming-style/tree/master/test

Specifically, the output of your program over the book Pride and Prejudice should match this: https://github.com/crista/exercises-in-programming-style/blob/master/test/pride-and-prejudice.txt

Course Description:

Concepts in modern programming languages, their interaction, and the relationship between programming languages and methods for large-scale, extensible software development. Empirical analysis of programming language usage.

Requirements and Expectations of Students:

This course requires a strong programming background and a good understanding of complex programs. There will be many homeworks that require programming. As such, I expect students to:

1. •Be familiar and comfortable with software programming. As a group we will use and read several programming languages, so a comfortability and eagerness to learn new programming languages is important.
   

2. •Bring laptop computers to class to participate in programming and code review exercises.
   

3. •Purchase (within the first week of class) the required textbook: Exercises in Programming Style by Cristina Lopes

1. •W1    Jan 10: Course Introduction
   

2. •W1    Jan 12: Chapter 1 “Good Old Times”
   

3. •W2    Jan 17: Chapter 2 “Go Forth”. Review of Chapter 1 assignments.
   

4. •W2    Jan 19: Chapter 3 “Monolithic”.
   

5. •W3    Jan 24: Chapter 4 “Cookbook”. Review of Chapter 2 assignments.
   

6. •W3    Jan 26: Class Cancelled.
   

7. •W4    Jan 31: Chapter 5 “Pipeline”. Review of Chapter 3 assignments.
   

8. •W4    Feb 2: Chapter 6 “Code Golf”. Review of Chapter 4 assignments.
   

9. •W5    Feb 7: Chapter 7 “Infinite Mirror”. Review of Chapter 5 assignments.
   

10. •W5    Feb 9: Chapter 8 “Kick Forward”. Review of Chapter 6 assignments.
    

11. •W6    Feb 14: Chapter 9 “The One”. Review of Chapter 7 assignments.
    

12. •W6    Feb 16: Chapter 10 “Things”. Review of Chapter 8 assignments.
    

13. •W7    Feb 21: Chapter 11 “Letterbox”. Review of Chapter 9 assignments.
    

14. •W7    Feb 23: Chapter 12 “Closed Maps”. Review of Chapter 10 assignments.
    

15. •W8    Feb 28: Chapter 13 “Abstract Things”. Review of Chapter 11 assignments.
    

16. •W8    Mar 2: Chapter 14 “Hollywood”. Review of Chapter 12 assignments.
    

17. •W9    Mar 7: Chapter 15 “Bulletin Board”. Review of Chapter 13 assignments.
    

18. •W9    Mar 9: Chapter 16 “Introspective”. Review of Chapter 14 assignments.
    

19. •W10    Mar 14: Chapter 17 “Reflective”. Review of Chapter 15 assignments.
    

20. •W10    Mar 16: Chapter 18 “Aspects”. Review of Chapter 16 assignments.
    

21. •Finals Week. Final Project Due Mar 24 5pm