Advanced Programming

Teacher: Giuseppe Attardi, Room: 292 DE, Office Hours: Monday, 15:00

Teaching Assistant: Andrea Madotto

Master (Laurea Magistrale): Informatics.

Schedule
Day	Hour	Room
Monday	11-13	C1, Polo Fibonacci
Tuesday	9-11	C1, Polo Fibonacci
Friday	11-13	N1, Polo Fibonacci

Piazza

The Piazza Community for this course. Follow instructions to enroll.

Tests and Exams

Midterm Assignment (updated 8/4/17: deadline 15/05/2017.

Final Term: Assignment, deadline 26/6/2017.

Final Term: Assignment, deadline 20/7/2017.

Final Term: Assignment, deadline 26/7/2017.

Final Term: Assignment deadline 28/9/2017.

Final Term: Assignement, deadline 31/1/2018.

Final Term: upon request on 26/1/2018, deadline 16/2/2018.

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, 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 Frameworks
1. Object-Oriented Programming and Frameworks
2. Inversion of control
3. Dependency Injection
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 Components
4. OSGi
Web Services
1. XML, XML-Schema
2. SOAP, RPC, Rest
3. WSDL
4. UDDI
Service Components
1. Service Oriented Architecture
2. Microservices
3. Flow Based Programming
Scaling
1. Map/Reduce
2. CUDA Architecture
Web Frameworks and Applications
1. Asp.Net
2. AJAX
3. jQuery
4. Symfony
5. HTML 5
Scripting
1. Perl, Python, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby

Lecture Notes

Date	Lecture	Notes
21/02/2017	Motivation of the course	Introduction
22/02/2017	Names, Bindings	name-scopes-binding.ppt
24/02/2017	Bindings and Scopes	name-scopes-binding.ppt
27/02/2017	Garbage Collection	gcoverview.ppt gctechniques.ppt
28/02/2017	Scope Rules: static and dynamic	name-scopes-binding.ppt
03/03/2017	Lambda, Delegates, Closures	name-scopes-binding.ppt
06/03/2017	Dynamic Scope. Parameter Passing	parameterpassing.ppt
07/03/2017	Polymorphism	polymorphism.ppt
10/03/2017	Inheritance and Polymorphism	inheritancepolymorphism.ppt
14/03/2017	C++ Template Metaprogramming	templatemetaprogramming.pptx
	Generic Programming	genericprogramming.ppt
17/03/2017	Parametric Polymorphism	genericprogramming.ppt
20/03/2017	Iterators and Generators	generators.ppt
	Recursive Descent Parsing	Parsing
21/03/2017	Introduction to COM	com_fundamentals1.ppt
24/03/2017	Web Services	webservices.ppt
27/03/2017	Web Services: Visual Studio demo
28/03/2017	Dynamic Web Pages, ASP.NET, Web Forms	ASP.NET
31/03/2017	Canceled because of strike
21/04/2017	Midterm correction	Midterm Solution
24/03/2017	Aspect Oriented Programming	AspectJ Tutorial
28/03/2017	JavaScript	Javascipt Language
02/05/2017	AJAX, Json	AJAX Overview, JSON
05/05/2017	jQuery	jQuery
08/05/2017	Node.js	node.js explained
09/05/2017	Node.js Tutorial	Building a ToDo list Code
12/05/2017	React	React Tutorial
15/05/2017	Asynchronous IO, Socket.io and React	Chat Room Implementation
	Symfony	Introduction to Symfony
	Symfony	Introduction to Symfony
	Map Reduce	Map Reduce & Pig & Spark
	Software Testing	Software Testing
	JavaScript Object Model	JavaSCript OM
	Common Language Runtime	CLI+CLR.pdf,inside_clr.pptx
	Introduction to C#	IntroToC#
	LINQ	LINQ
	Standard Template Library	STL.ppt
	Perpectives	Web 2.0