UCLA Computer Science 131, Fall 2003.
Programming Languages

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Instructor: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, 4532J Boelter.

Teaching assistants, in 4428 Boelter:

• Andrea Fang Chu <fchu@cs.ucla.edu>
• Michael Pan <cs131ta@netscape.net>
• <cs131ta@seas.ucla.edu> reaches both TAs; please use this only when you don't know which TA is appropriate.

Lecture, 4 hours; laboratory, 2 hours; outside study, 6 hours.

Prerequisites: Computer Science 32, 33.

Study, comparison, and evaluation of alternative strategies for language specification, data description, data control, program modularity, instruction sequencing, and language implementations. Use of a few languages selected from FORTRAN 77, Ada, SNOBOL4, Lisp, Modula-2, and Prolog to illustrate particular implementations of some of above features. Letter grading.

Related IEEE/ACM Computing Curricula 2001 bodies of knowledge:

• PL1. Overview of programming languages
• PL4. Declarations and types
• PL5. Abstraction mechanisms
• PL6. Object-oriented programming
• PL7. Functional programming
• PL9. Type systems
• PL10. Programming language semantics
• PL11. Programming language design
• OS12. Scripting