Advanced Programming

Teacher: Giuseppe Attardi Question Time: Wednesday, 11:00 AM

Master (Laurea Magistrale): Informatics.

Schedule
Day	Hour	Room
Monday	16-18	B, Polo Fibonacci
Wednesday	11-13	A1, Polo Fibonacci
Friday	14-16	L1, Polo Fibonacci

Tests and Exams

Midterm Test: Mid Term, deadline 20/11/2013.

Final Test: Final Term (versione con esempio XML aggiornato), consegna entro 14/2/2014.

Special session for working students: deadline 31/3/2014.

Final Test: Final Term, deadline 9/6/2014

Final Test: Final Term, deadline 29/6/2014

Final Test: Final Term, deadline 24/7/2014

Final Test: Final Term, deadline 12/9/2014

Objectives

The evolution of software systems towards Web Computing involves a variety of complex techniques and tools, from object-oriented programming, to component-based programming, to Web Service programming. A deep understanding of these techniques and their capabilities is required in order to fully exploit their potential.

The objectives of this course are:

to provide the students with a deep understanding of how high level programming concepts and metaphors map into executable systems and which are their costs and limitations
to acquaint the students with modern principles, techniques, and best practices of advanced software construction
to introduce the students to techniques of programming at higher abstraction levels, in particular generative programming, component programming and web computing
to present state-of-the-art frameworks incorporating these techniques.

This course will provide a deep understanding of modern software technologies, so that the students will be able to evaluate the effects of each design choice through all levels of a software architecture, in terms of performance, reliability, adaptability and integrability into larger systems.

The course is a required course for the Laurea Magistrale in Informatica as well of the Laurea Magistrale in Informatica e Networking, and contributes to prepare professionals for the role of software architect.

Syllabus

Programming Language Foundations
1. Syntax, Parsing, Abstract Syntax Tree, Parser Generators
2. Names, Scope, Binding
3. Parameter Passing
4. Static and Dynamic Allocation: Stack, Heap
5. Types, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Virtual Functions, Overloading
6. Delegates, Closures
7. Exception Handling
Run-Time Systems
1. Virtual Execution Environment
  1. Memory Management
  2. Thread Management
  3. Exception Handling
  4. Security
  5. Debugging Support
  6. AOT and JIT Compilation
  7. Dynamic Link/Load
  8. Reflection
2. Examples
  1. JVM
  2. CLR
3. Verification
4. Language Interoperability
Generic Programming
1. C++ templates
2. Java Generics
3. C# Generics
4. Bounded Polymorphism
Class Libraries and Frameworks
1. Object-Oriented Programming and Frameworks
  1. Use of polymorphism in framework design
  2. Extensibility, adaptability, performance of OOP
2. Inversion of control
3. .NET Framework Class Library
4. Java Class Library
Generative Programming
1. MetaProgramming
2. Reflection
3. Template C++
4. Aspect Oriented Programming
5. Runtime code generation: LINQ
6. Generators
7. Program optimization and transformation
8. Partial evaluation
Interoperability
1. Process level: interprocess communication
2. Language level: CORBA/IDL
3. Object level: DCOM
Component Based Programming
1. COM
2. JavaBeans
3. .NET (Assembly, Reflection, Interfaces, Attributes)
4. OSGi
Web Services
1. XML, XML-Schema
2. SOAP, RPC, Rest
3. WSDL
4. UDDI
Web Frameworks and Applications
1. Asp.Net
2. ADO.Net
3. J2EE
4. Java Server Faces
5. AJAX: XHR, jQuery, GWT
6. Mashup and Service Oriented Architecture
7. HTML 5
Scripting
1. Perl, Python, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby

Lecture Notes

Date	Lecture	Notes
23/09/2013	Motivation of the course	Introduction
25/09/2013	Introduction and objectives
27/09/2013	Grammars and Parsing	Parsing
30/09/2013	LL(1) grammars, Recursive Descent Parsing
2/10/2013	Regular languages
4/10/2013	Names, Sopes, Bindings	name-scopes-binding.ppt
7/10/2013	Storage Management	malloc
9/10/2013	Storage Management	malloc
11/10/2013	Garbage Collection	gcoverview.ppt
14/10/2013	Incremental, Generational Garbage Collection	gctechniques2.ppt
16/10/2013	Scope Rules: static and dynamic
18/10/2013	Parameter Passing	parameterpassing.ppt
21/10/2013	Parameter Passing	parameterpassing.ppt
23/10/2130	Static and Dynamic Linking	buildingrunnableprogram.pdf
25/10/2013	Introduction to C#	IntroToC#
28/10/2013	Introduction to COM	com_fundamentals1.pdf
11/11/2013	Introduction to COM	com_fundamentals1.pdf
13/11/2013	Common Language Runtime	CLI+CLR.pdf,inside_clr.pptx
15/11/2013	Web Services	webservices.pdf
18/11/2013	Web Services	webservices.pdf
20/11/2013	Dynamic Web Pages	asp.net.pdf
22/11/2013	Correction MidTerm
25/11/2013	Generators	generators.pdf
27/11/2013	Generic Programming	polymorphism.ppt
29/11/2013	Parametric Polymorphism	parametricpolymorphism.ppt
	Bounded Parametric Polymorphism
02/12/2013	C++ Template Metaprogramming	templatemetaprogramming.pdf
04/12/2013	Standard Template Library	STL.ppt
	Types	Types.ppt
06/12/2013	LINQ	LINQ
09/12/2013	AJAX, Json	AJAX Overview, JSON
11/12/2013	nodejs, jQuery	jQuery, Javascript Practice,Javascipt Language
13/12/2013	Symfony2	Introduction to Symfony2
	Perpectives	Web 2.0