The SIN Foundations of Software course at EPFL is taught on Tuesdays from 10:15 to 12:00 and on Thursdays from 8:15 to 10:00. Courses are in INM 10, projects and exercises in INF 1.
Description
Software foundations (or theory of programming languages) is the mathematical study of the meaning of programs. Students will learn ways to describe program behaviors, and mathematical tools to formalize and check interesting properties of programs. This course concentrates on operational techniques and type systems.
NEWS
- Jan 19: Final exam of 2008 is online (see below).
Mid-term exam
The mid-term exam will take place on November 18, 2010, in room GCF 111 from 8:15-10:00. You are allowed to bring the textbook and print outs of the course slides.
Final exam
The final exam will take place on January 24, 2011, in room INM
202 from 08:15-11:15. You are allowed to bring the textbook and print outs of the course
slides.
The final exam of 2008 can be consulted here
(solution).
Schedule
- Thursday, Nov 18
- Mid-term exam (pdf) (solution)
- Tuesday, Nov 23
- Course “Subtyping”
- Thursday, Nov 25
- Exercise session on type reconstruction
- Tuesday, Nov 30
- Course “Objects”
- Thursday, Dec 2
- Exercise session on type reconstruction
- Tuesday, Dec 7
- Course “Featherweight Java”
- Thursday, Dec 9
- Exercise session on Featherweight Java
- Tuesday, Dec 14
- Course “Featherweight Java”
- Thursday, Dec 16
- Exercise session on Featherweight Java
Course's grading
Each enrolled student will receive a grade based on his results for the projects (submitted via Moodle), the mid-term exam and the final exam. The relative importance of each part is as follows.
| Part | Importance |
|---|---|
| projects | 30% |
| mid-term exam | 30% |
| final exam | 40% |
A note about cheating (plagiarism)
Sharing ideas between groups is very recommended. Plagiarising code as part of a project will not be tolerated — whatever the source.
In case of cheating, you will receive the grade “NA” (not acquired, zero) for the concerned project or exam, or for the whole course. You may furthermore be denounced and punished in accordance with the ordonnance sur la discipline.
If you are in any fashion worried about this, speak with an assistant.