COMP3610: Principles of Programming Languages
Semester 1, 2002

Unit lecturer: Dr. Clem Baker-Finch

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Final examination information:

The paper is 3 hours plus 15 minutes reading. You can take in 2 sides of an A4 sheet of hand-written notes into the exam session.

There are 95 marks available. (OK, I made a mistake with my arithmetic and now we have to live with it. Sorry.)
There are 6 questions:

1. Functional programming: 20 marks
2. Fixpoint theory: 15 marks
3. Operational semantics: 15 marks
4. Denotational semantics: 15 marks
5. Parsing: 15 marks
6. Logic programming: 15 marks

If required, the operational and/or denotational semantics of Imp will be given in the paper, so there is no need to fill up your notes with this stuff.

Course Structure

• The vital details of comp3610 are to be found in Faculty handbook for 2002 and on Dept website.
• A comprehensive specification of comp3610 in the standard department format is available on-line.

Assessment Scheme

• There will be four assignments with a combined weight of 40%.
• There will be a 3 hour final examination with a weight of 60%. You will be permitted to take two A4 pages of hand-written notes (in fact, both sides of a single A4 sheet according to examinations section) into the exam session, but no printed materials.
• Because assignment marks may not be a reliable indication of achievement, combined marks will be capped at 10 above your exam mark (out of 100). (For example, if you get 65/100 for your exam, your final combined result cannot exceed 75%, irrespective of your assignment marks.)