CS 6110 Spring 2025
Advanced Programming Languages

Course Information

Time & Place

Lecture:

• Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 10:10-11:00am, Gates Hall 114

You are expected to attend all lectures.

Course Staff

Prerequisites

Enrollment limited to: graduate students or permission of instructor. Programming experience and mathematical maturity is required.

Texts

You are required to read the course notes posted on the web site. These will often contain more detail than what was presented in lecture.

Ed

We will be using Ed as an online discussion forum. You are encouraged to post any questions you might have about the course material. The course staff monitor the forum fairly closely and you will usually get a quick response. If you know the answer to a question, you are encouraged to post it, but please avoid giving away any hints on the homework or posting any part of a solution—this is considered a violation of academic integrity.

By default, your posts are visible to the course staff and other students, and you should prefer this mode so that others can benefit from your question and the answer. However, you can post privately so that only the course staff can see your question, and you should do so if your post might reveal information about a solution to a homework problem. If you post privately, we reserve the right to make your post public if we think the class will benefit. You can also post anonymously if you wish not to reveal your identity.

The discussion forum is the most effective way to communicate with the staff and is the preferred mode of interaction. Please reserve email for urgent or confidential matters. Free-ranging technical discussions are especially encouraged. Broadcast messages from the course staff to students will be sent using Ed and all course announcements will be posted there, so check in often.

CMSX

We will be using the course management system CMSX for managing assignments, exams, and grades. Everyone who preregistered for the course should be entered, but if you did not preregister, you are probably missing. Please login here and check whether you exist. There will be a list of courses you are registered for, and CS 6110 should be one of them. If not, please send your full name and Cornell NetID to the course staff so you can be registered.

You can check your grades, submit homework, and request regrades in CMSX. Please check your grades regularly to make sure we are recording things properly. The system also provides some grading statistics. There is a help page with instructions.

Please do not repost course materials released on CMS publicly. These materials are intellectual property and are meant for participants in the course. They are not free to the public.

Announcements and Handouts

Announcements will be posted to Ed. Homework and exam solutions will be available in CMS. Check frequently for new postings.

Assignments & Exams

There will be 4 slip days for assignments this semester, with a 10% per day penalty applied thereafter. Extensions may be granted in case of illness or other acceptable excuse; please contact the course instructor as early as possible if an extension will be needed.

There will be a 1½-hour evening prelim and a 2½-hour final exam. Please check the schedule page for times and locations.

Your final grade will be based on your assignment and exam scores according to the following weights:

Participation		3%
Assignments		47%
	Assignment 1	8%
	Assignment 2	8%
	Assignment 3	9%
	Assignment 4	9%
	Assignment 5	9%
	Assignment 6	4%
Prelim		20%
Final		30%

Participation will be assessed based on attendance and participation in class, participation in Ed discussions, filling out course evaluations, and pop quizzes given in class (usually promptly at the start!)

Scores will be averaged by computing a weighted quadratic mean, which means that unrepresentatively low scores (such as missing assignments) will have less weight.

Regrades

Homework regrade requests can be submitted electronically in CMS. Exam regrades should be handwritten and submitted to the course staff. Please include a description of the grading error with your regrade request.

Academic Integrity

Each student in this course is expected to abide by the Cornell University Code of Academic Integrity. Any work submitted by a student in this course for academic credit must be the student’s own work.

A high level of academic integrity is expected of all students. Under no circumstances may you submit work done with or by someone else under your own name or share detailed proofs or code with anyone else except your partner. However, discussions about general techniques or the requirements of the assignment are permissible.

You must cite all sources, including Internet sources. You must acknowledge by name anyone whom you consulted (excluding course staff). You may not give nor receive assistance from anyone else during an exam. You may not post any material that might be part of a solution publicly on Ed. If your question necessarily includes such material, post privately.

If you are unsure about what is permissible and what is not, please ask.

Academic Integrity Resources:

• • Cornell University Code of Academic Integrity
• • Computer Science Department Code of Academic Integrity
• • Explanation of AI Proceedings

Special Needs

We will provide appropriate accommodation for students with special needs or disabilities. Requests for accommodation are to be made during the first three weeks of the semester and must be accompanied by official documentation. Please register with Student Disability Services in 110 Ho Plaza (Cornell Health Building), Level 5 to document your eligibility.

All dates for lectures and unreleased assignments are provisional. Notes from Spring 2009 and Spring 2010 are likely to be close approximations.

Resources

Assignments

All source code will be available on CMS.

Homework 1

Homework 2

Homework 3

Homework 4

Homework 5

Homework 6