Lecture September 27^th

Final Exam – tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, December 13^th - 7pm – both sections! - Room to be announced

Read section on Java in Chapter 2

Read section on Pascal in Chapter 2

Discussed that EBNF is simply another notation which reduces the number of rules (productions) required to describe the syntax but doesn’t change the results.

EBNF about page 139 [ optional – i.e. 0 or 1 occurrence]

{ any number of repetitions including none }

( % | ^ | & ) - alternation (one of the symbols separated by |

Brackets, braces, parentheses are metasymbols (i.e. notational tools and not terminal systems).

If we want them to be terminal symbols we can quote them or underline them.

Gradesheets for: Pascal homework, FORTRAN .and. homework, Java program

Discussed problem areas in Pascal homework, FORTRAN .and. homework, Java program

Talked about Chapter 5

here are book’s slides – we went through about half – rest next time

here are book’ figures – we only looked at first one

example program using sets

We will discuss Pascal’s records and pointers next time – prepare by searching Web and by reading pages 82-83; 262, 225 in 7^th edition. Look under Pascal in index if you are using 6^th edition.