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Classes
Textbook
Instructor
Goals of the Course
Assignments and Tests
Grading
Software
| Tuesday 2:30 PM | Thursday 8:30 AM | Friday 1:30 PM |
The Tuesday and Friday classes are held in Biosciences Room 1102 and the Thursday classes are held in Dunning Auditorium.
There are many textbooks covering the material in the first half of the course (Part C in our textbook).
Author/Creator: Peter Linz Title: An Introduction to Formal Languages and Automata, Fifth Edition Published: Jones and Bartlett Publishers c2012
Assignments
There will be 4 sets of assignments. The first three assignments
are due at 2:00 PM on Thursdays of weeks
3, 5 and 8 and the fourth assignment is due at 2:00 PM on Monday
of week 12. For rules concerning the assignment submission
please see the
CISC223/CMPE223 onQ page.
The assignment questions will be posted
at the
CISC223/CMPE223 onQ page.
The assignments must be based on individual work.
The first three assignments are each worth 6% of your course mark and the
fourth assignment is worth 10%.
The assignments are submitted in onQ (file submission). Assignments sent by email are not accepted.
The final exam will be held during the regular winter term
final examination period.
The final exam is written in-person on campus.
The final exam is 3 hours in length and is worth 40% of
your course grade. The exam is closed book. You can bring in
one 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of notes and use it during the exam.
Note: The components of this course will receive numerical marks
that will be used to calculate a percentage final grade, as
explained above. The final grade you receive for the course
will be derived by converting your percentage grade to
a letter grade according to Queen's official grade conversion
scale.
Note2: The individual grade items (for the assignments and
quizzes) will be posted on the onQ page where you can check them.
However, your percentage grade for the entire course will be
calculated using a spreadsheet outside onQ.
The text assumes that a file
specdef.i
of "headers" and definitions has been included into all programs;
this is Program 3 on page 7 of the text.
An on-line reference manual on C programming:
To use EiC to parse and run a C program file prog.c
in the
current directory, just enter
a
The following on-line tutorials will be useful
if you are unfamiliar with Unix-like systems:
Several other free C or
On Unix-like systems such as Solaris and Linux,
the most popular text editors are
vi
(or an improved
version such as
vim)
and
emacs
(or an improved version such as
xemacs);
but if you are not familiar with either of these, we advise you to use
nedit
at a GUI (graphical user interface) and
jed
at a CLI (command-line interface).
An "integrated development environment" (IDE) combining a program editor, a
compiler or interpreter, and possibly a debugger, won't be needed for
the relatively small and, one hopes, verified programs you will
be coding in this course.
If you want to install a PDF viewer on your own computer,
viewers for most platforms are available at no charge here:
onQ quizzes and final exam
The course will have two quizzes written
in onQ. Each quiz has 90 minutes length and is
worth 16%
of
your course grade.
The onQ quizzes are written on Tuesday February 28 and on
Thursday March 23.
Grading
Your grade is calculated as follows.
4 Assignments
(asn's 1, 2, 3 are worth 6% each, assignment 4 is 10%)
28%
onQ-quiz 1
16%
onQ-quiz 2
16%
Final exam
40%
Total:
100%
Accommodations Statement
Queen's University is committed to achieving full accessibility for persons with disabilities. Part of this commitment includes arranging academic accommodations for students with disabilities to ensure they have an equitable opportunity to participate in all of their academic activities. The Senate Policy for Accommodations for Students with Disabilities was approved at Senate in November 2016 (see PDF). If you are a student with a disability and think you may need accommodations, you are strongly encouraged to contact Queen's Student Accessibility Services (QSAS) and register as early as possible. For more information, including important deadlines, please visit the QSAS website.
Academic Consideration for Students in Extenuating Circumstances
Queen’s University is committed to providing academic consideration to students experiencing extenuating circumstances. For more information, please see the Senate Policy on Academic Consideration for Students in Extenuating Circumstances.
Each Faculty has developed a protocol to provide a consistent and equitable approach in dealing with requests for academic consideration for students facing extenuating circumstances. Arts and Science undergraduate students should consult the Faculty of Arts and Science protocol and the portal where a request can be submitted. Students in other Faculties and Schools who are enrolled in this course should refer to the protocol for their home Faculty.
Software
Programming Language
A small fragment of the C programming language is used
in the text.
A compact reference manual
may be found in Appendix A of the text book
and on-line
as a PDF file.
Programming Platforms
Any implementation of C (or C++) may be used,
but for this course
we recommend
an interpretive implementation of C called
EiC.
Although its run-time performance is relatively poor (comparable to Java), it
has good error messages and run-time checks.
EiC has been installed on the CASLab Linux
servers and workstations. For more information about accessing
CASLab Linux, consult the
CASLab How To.
at a command-line prompt.
Use re-direction to
read from a file eic prog.c
input or to write to a file output,
as in
To get a summary of available command-line options and directives,
enter
eic prog.c < input > output
For more details see the link
EiC.
eic -h
C++
implementations which may be of interest are available:
C++.
It has been installed on zeus.
For more details,
enter
to get a short manual.
man gcc
Program Editors
Any text editor (such as Notepad on Windows) may be used to create and
modify C programs. We suggest you use one window as a command-line
interface (running EiC
as necessary), and a separate window (or windows) to edit C source
files.
PDF Readers
Assignments and other documents posted at this web site will be
in Portable Document Format
(PDF). The CASLab computers you use should have PDF viewers
installed.