Javascript code for schedule and agenda generation/management

// A Syllabus management class.

// Author: Matthew Might
// Site:   http://matt.might.net/

function Syllabus (initYear,initMonth,initDate,topics,fixed) {

 this.initYear = initYear ;
 this.initMonth = initMonth - 1 ; // [1..12] -> [0..1]
 this.initDate = initDate ;
   
 this.topics = topics || [] ;
 this.fixed = fixed || {} ;

 this.createInitDate = function () {
  var d = new Date() ;

  d.setFullYear(this.initYear, this.initMonth, this.initDate) ;

  // toQuasiLexicalDateString: String of the form "YYYY-[M]M-[D]D"
  d.toQuasiLexicalDateString = function () {
   return this.getFullYear() + "-" + (this.getMonth() + 1) + "-" + (this.getDate())
  } ;

  // nextDay: Increment this date to the next event day.
  d.nextDay = function (days) {
   this.setDate(this.getDate() + 1) ;

   var max = 7 ;

   while ((!days[this.getDay()]) && (max > 0)) {
    this.setDate(this.getDate() + 1) ;
    --max ;
   }

  } ;

   
  return d ;
 } ;
   

 var eventDays = {} ;
   
 this.setEventDay = function (dayOfWeek) {
   if (dayOfWeek == "Sun") dayOfWeek = 0 ;
   else if (dayOfWeek == "Mon") dayOfWeek = 1 ;
   else if (dayOfWeek == "Tue") dayOfWeek = 2 ;
   else if (dayOfWeek == "Wed") dayOfWeek = 3 ;
   else if (dayOfWeek == "Thu") dayOfWeek = 4 ;
   else if (dayOfWeek == "Fri") dayOfWeek = 5 ;
   else if (dayOfWeek == "Sat") dayOfWeek = 6 ;

   else if (dayOfWeek == "S") dayOfWeek = 0 ;
   else if (dayOfWeek == "M") dayOfWeek = 1 ;
   else if (dayOfWeek == "T") dayOfWeek = 2 ;
   else if (dayOfWeek == "W") dayOfWeek = 3 ;
   else if (dayOfWeek == "H") dayOfWeek = 4 ;
   else if (dayOfWeek == "F") dayOfWeek = 5 ;
   else if (dayOfWeek == "S") dayOfWeek = 6 ;

   eventDays[dayOfWeek] = true ;
 } ;


 this.getEvents = function () {

  var topics = this.topics.slice() ; // clone
  var fixed = this.fixed ;

  var events = [] ;

  for (var d = this.createInitDate() ; topics.length > 0; d.nextDay(eventDays)) {
   var topic ;
   
   if (fixed[d.toQuasiLexicalDateString()]) {
    topic = fixed[d.toQuasiLexicalDateString()] ;
   } else {
    topic = topics.shift() ;
   }

   events.push({ "date": d.toDateString(),
                 "topic": topic }) ;
  }

  return events ;
 } ;

 return this ; 
}
   

var Topics = [
   "Overview of static analysis"  ,
   "Syntax and semantics" ,

   "Introduction to the lambda calculus" ,
   "Small-step semantics and a-normal form (ANF)" ,
   "Partial order theory" ,
   "Abstract interpretation of small-step semantics" ,
   "Continuation-passing style (CPS)",
   "<i>k</i>-CFA by abstract interpretation" ,
   "Big-step semantics" ,
   "Constraint-based analyses (0CFA by constraints)" , 
   "Intraprocedural analyses for imperative languages (I)" ,
   "Intraprocedural analyses for imperative languages (II)" ,
   "Interprocedural analysis for imperative languages" ,
   "Static single-assignment form (SSA)" ,
   "Alias analyses (Steensgard, Andersen)" ,
   "Abstract garbage collection" ,

   "Context sensitivity; flow sensitivity" ,
   "Must-* analyses" ,
   "Abstract interpretation (Galois theory)" ,
   "Type-based analyses" ,
   "Dependence analysis and automatic parallelization" ,
   "Escape analysis" ,
   "Predicate-/proposition-based abstractions" ,
   "Numeric- and array-bounds analysis" ,
   "Shape analysis" ,
   "Case study: Analysis of unrestricted ANSI C (I)" ,
   "Case study: Analysis of unrestricted ANSI C (II)"
   ] ;

   
var Fixed = {
   "2009-1-20": "<b>TBD: Matt @ POPL</b>" ,
   "2009-1-22": "<b>TBD: Matt @ POPL</b>" ,
   
   "2009-3-17": "<b>Spring break</b>" ,
   "2009-3-19": "<b>Spring break</b>" 
} ;

   

var S = new Syllabus(2009,1,13,Topics,Fixed) ;
   
S.setEventDay("Tue") ; 
S.setEventDay("Thu") ; 

var Events = S.getEvents() ;

while (Events.length > 0) {
 var e = Events.shift() ;

 document.write("<tr><td>"+e.date+"</td><td>"+e.topic+"</td></tr>") ;
}