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Academic Integrity at McGill University

In terms of this course, part of your responsibility is to ensure that you put the name of the author on all code that is submitted. By putting your name on the code you are indicating that it is completely your own work. If you use some third-party code you must have permission to use it and you must clearly indicate the source of the code.

Announcements:

• Sept 27, 2005. This is to let you know that the JOOS deliverables for the COMP 520 course ALL have to be done using the C implementation of JOOS (A- Compiler). I was of the view that Laurie used to give students the option of using either Java or C to do these deliverables but it turns out that this is not true. As pointed out by a couple of students a lot of the stuff asked for in the deliverable is either trivial to do in the Java implementation or already done there. So please make sure you are using the flex/bison C implementation of the A- JOOS compiler to work on your deliverable for this friday.
• Sept 25, 2005.There are some problems for running joos using SableCC3 from Lauries profile (Thanks Ximeng for pointing these out). Kacper has been looking for an alternate place to keep all these tools for easy access.
• Sept 25, 2005.Instructions on using different tools can be found here. Further information on how to set up JOOS is available in the JOOS section on this webpage.
• Sept 21, 2005.Kacper has been kind enough to write a crash course on setting up subversion. "You can find the guide, along with (nicer looking) pdf and ps versions at: Kacpers Guide. All COMP-520 students should have access to the repository area on cvs.cs.mcgill.ca. If you don't, send a request to help@cs.mcgill.ca, and be sure to mention your course and group number."(Kacper)
• Sept 21, 2005.Check the link Groups to find the group number that has been assigned to you. Refer your group id in all correspondence regarding projects with the Instructor or the TAs. Also your submissions of milestones and deliverables should include your group number in the subject line of the email.
• Sept 13, 2005. TA names have been added to the Teaching Assistants Page. More information will be added here as it becomes available.
• Sept 13, 2005. When sending emails to the TAs or me please make sure the subject starts with COMP-520. This is to ensure that no emails are lost and that we can reply in a timely manner.
• Sept, 6, 2005. You can find demo.l here demo.l. First run the lexer on it by issuing the command flex demo.. This makes the file lex.yy.c. Then issue the command gcc lex.yy.c -o demo -lfl. This will create a scanner executable with the name demo. You can run this using the command ./demo. Now test out your scanner. To exit press ctrl-c.
• First class is Friday, Sept 1, ENGTR 2100, 11:35-12:25. Be sure to come on time.