COMP284 Scripting Languages (2019-20)
Administrative Details
Teaching staff
The module co-ordinator is Dr. Ullrich Hustadt, Room 1.03, Ashton Building.
He is be supported by Ameneh Irankhah, Christopher Jones, Anju Surej>, and Daniel Warren who will support you during practical sessions and mark your assignments.
Practicals
Programming languages are best learned by solving programming problems and exercises of increasing complexity. The COMP284 practicals and assignments are meant to guide you through this process. There will be ten practicals, in seven you will be given worksheets that you work through with the help of demonstrators and another three will give you an opportunity to ask questions about the assignments.
A list of the praticals and the topics covered by them can be found here.
For the time and place of each COMP284 practical, please refer to your personal timetable.
The first practical takes place on Thursday, 30 January 2020, that is, in the first week of the second semester.
Lectures
There will be about 13 lectures on COMP284. These will give an overview of the two scripting languages PHP and JavaScript. Recordings of the lecture material will be available on stream.liv.ac.uk and you can watch those in your own time. You should always revise the lecture material before you attend the corresponding practical.
A list of the lectures and the topics covered by them can be found here.
For the time and place of each COMP284 lecture, please refer to your personal timetable.
Lectures start on Tuesday, 25 January 2020, 11:00.
Drop-in sessions / Office hours
Dr. Ullrich Hustadt is usually available Fridays, 14:00-15:00 and 16:00-17:00, for questions concerning COMP284. Please send an e-mail to U.Hustadt@liverpool.ac.uk if you want an appointment at this or any other time.
Attendance
You are expected to attend all lectures and labs unless they have a good reason not to. (For further details see Sections 4.3 to 4.6 in the Student Handbook.) Attendance of practicals will be monitored.
Assessment
COMP284 will be assessed by two assessment tasks / assignments. There will be one assignment on Perl and one on JavaScript. The effort required for each assignment will be about 15 hours. There is no exam.