CS 5363: Programming Languages and Compilers

The teaching staff has posted a new homework_solutions resource.

Title: HW10sols.pdf
Title: HW9sols.pdf


You can view it on the course page: https://piazza.com/utsa/spring2013/cs5363/resources

#class-resources #homework

Homework 10 is now available at:
http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~vonronne/classes/cs5363-s13/handouts/hwk10.txt

I am sorry to be giving you this homework while you are busy working on your compiler extensions,
but these problems are important for preparing for the final exam.

If you haven't already, please complete the UTSA course evaluation for CS 5363. The student evaluations are one of the primary means used by the administration in evaluating the teaching quality of faculty. The university will close the evaluations on Monday, 4/22.

Instructions for submitting course evaluations can be found at: http://utsa.edu/ir/evaluations/evaluation_links.html

When UTSA went to electronic course evaluations, we lost the ability to get free-form comments, which I always thought was the most useful part of the student evaluations for helping me improve my teaching. I thought these were supposed to have been added back this year, but I didn't get any Fall semester, so I'm not sure. In any case, I will provide a space on the final exam for you to put your constructive criticism, and I'm also happy to receive feedback through chatting in my office hours, emails, anonymous notes slipped under my office door in the middle of the night, etc. I am particularly interested in your views on any of the following items:

1. Workload: Approximately, how much time did it take you to complete each part of the project? Approximately, how much time did you spend on each weeks homework? Approximately, how much time did you spend reading / doing other studying for the course?
2. Coverage: What topics did we cover that you think were the most interesting or useful? What topics did we cover that you think were the least interesting or useful? Were there things that you were hoping would be covered, but weren't?
3. Homeworks: Are there topics that you think there should be problems or be more problems on? Are there topics that there are too many / too long of problems where shorter problems would be sufficient?
4. Examples: Are there topics where you think your learning could be improved by more/better examples beyond those provided in lecture, in the lecture notes, and in the textbook?
5. Objectives: Do you think the objectives given on the notes/review sheets reflect a reasonable performance expectation? Are there objectives
   that you think are unrealistically hard? Are there additional objectives that should perhaps be added?
6. Alternative teaching styles: Do you think it would be helpful for this class to be taught using "inverted instruction", where you are given videos to watch before class that work examples and present ideas, and the classroom time is spent doing homework-type problems, individually or in small groups, with the instructor present to answer questions?

I'm going to have to revise what I told you in class yesterday.

There will be no submissions of extensions accepted after 11:59pm on Wednesday, May 1. I'm sorry for this, but we need to do it in order to preserve Thursday (5/2) and Friday (5/3) as time for you to study for your final exams.

Instead of the standard "48 hour with penalty" late submission for parser/core, requests for late submissions of parser/core for regrades after 5/1 will be handled on a case-by-case basis. In general, you should not be requesting a late submission of parser/core if you are also submitting extensions for grading.

If you use elk5363 and have not changed your linux password from your banner id, please be aware that the department has just locked all Linux accounts of students whose passwords were still set to their banner id.

If you've been using your banner id to get into your Linux account, it is likely that you are now locked out and will not be able to use elk5363 until you get your account re-enabled. If this effects you, you will want to see the department support staff, Dan Smolenski or Brian Hogan, to get your account re-enabled.

This doesn't effect your web accounts on sloecode.cs.utsa.edu, but if you haven't changed your password from your student id, you should.

In order to accommodate those students who have an exam tomorrow, the deadline for core.1 is extended to 11:59pm on Wednesday, March 6.

If you need more time, you can request an additional 48 hour extension with a 10% penalty by emailing cs5363@cs.utsa.edu with your request.

There was a mistake in Question 2(a) of Homework 3.

Instead of answers question 2(a) as originally written, please answer the following instead:

This grammar does not describe the same language as the one in question (1). Give one sentence that is in the language described by in the language described by the grammar in question (1) but not in this grammar.


The original wording had the language inclusion backwards, and has, I believe, no answer. I apologize for the mistake and the time that you spent trying to answer the wrong question.
I've posted a new hwk3b.txt with the correction.