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Seminar Syllabus

The table below gives the planned syllabus for the seminar. This syllabus is subject to change. If it becomes necessary to revise the schedule, then this page will be updated to reflect the changes.

The references in the readings are given in the bibliography below.

Dates	Topics	Readings	Optional Readings
Aug. 30	Course Overview and Planning	[BvW98] Ch. 1	[Morgan98]
Aug. 30	Review of Predicate Transformers	[BvW98] Ch. 11	[Dijkstra-Scholten90]
Aug. 30-Sept. 27	Refinement Calculus Hierarchy	[BvW98] Ch. 12
Oct. 3-18	Statements	[BvW98] Ch. 13	[Morgan98] Ch. 3-5
Oct. 25-Nov. 15	Statements as Games	[BvW98] Ch. 14
Nov. 25-Nov. 29	Thanksgiving Break, no class
Dec. 6-13	Correctness and Refinement of Statements	[BvW98] Ch. 17	[Dijkstra-Scholten90]
Dec. 13	Summary and Review

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Bibliography

[BvW98]: Ralph-Johan Back and Joakim von Wright. Refinement Calculus: A Systematic Introduction. Springer-Verlag, New York, N.Y., 1998.
[Cohen90]: Edward Cohen. Programming in the 1990s: An Introduction to the Calculation of Programs. Springer-Verlag, New York, N.Y., 1990.
[Dijkstra-Scholten90]: Edsger W. Dijkstra and Carel S. Scholten. Predicate Calculus and program semantics. Springer-Verlag, New York, N.Y., 1990.
[Dijkstra76]: Edsger W. Dijkstra. A Discipline of Programming. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1976.
[Gries91]: David Gries. Teaching Calculation and Discrimination: A More Effective Curriculum. Comm. ACM, 34(3):44-55 (March, 1991).
[Morgan98]: Carroll Morgan. Programming from Specifications, Second Edition. Prentice-Hall International, 1998.
On-line at http://users.comlab.ox.ac.uk/carroll.morgan/PfS/.

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Last modified Friday, November 15, 2002.

This web page is for the Spring 2002 offering of Com S 641 or the Fall 2002 offering of Com S 610 GL at Iowa State University. The details of this course are subject to change as experience dictates. You will be informed of any changes. Please direct any comments or questions to Gary T. Leavens at leavens@cs-DOT-iastate-DOT-edu.