Programming Language Fundamentals by Example

Appendix A

REFLECTIONS BY ONE GOOD STUDENT

These example milestone reports are courtesy of Clint W. Smullen IV, who took a course based on this text in the fall of 2005. These notes are provided to give students an idea of what a report should look like.

The reports are Clint’s; I have removed code and drawings that would trivialize the projects.

A.1 MILESTONE I

A.1.1 Metacognitive Comments

I first began to learn Gforth by translating extremely simple expressions that I know in C into Gforth, such as: 1 + 2 into 1 2 +. I then proceeded to look at how to manipulate the stack using., .s, DROP, ROT, etc. This was followed by learning how to use floating-point arithmetic and the large differences between the manipulation of integer and floating-point ...