UCLA Computer Science 131, Spring 2008.
Programming Languages

Course objective: Expose the student to an analytic and comparative way of looking at programming languages and their implementation.

• News
• Syllabus
• Programming language resources
• Resources for oral presentations and written reports
• Homework
• Grading

Instructor: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, Boelter 4532J. Office hours are Mondays 12:00–13:00 and Wednesdays 14:00–15:00.

Teaching assistant: Hesam Samimi <hesam@cs.ucla.edu>, Boelter 4428. Office hours are Wednesdays 16:30–17:30 and Fridays 12:30–13:30.

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

Prerequisites: Computer Science 32, 33.

Basic concepts in design and use of programming languages, including abstraction, modularity, control mechanisms, types, declarations, syntax, and semantics. Study of several different language paradigms, including functional, object-oriented, and logic programming. Letter grading.

Related IEEE/ACM Computing Curricula 2001 (CC2001) 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

Related IEEE/ACM Software Engineering 2004 (SE2004) bodies of knowledge:

• CMP.cf.9. Programming language basics
• CMP.cf.13. Semantics of programming languages
• CMP.ct.3. Object-oriented run-time issues (e.g., polymorphism, dynamic binding, etc.)
• CMP.ct.4. Parameterization and generics
• CMP.ct.6. Error handling, exception handling, and fault tolerance
• CMP.tl.4. Application oriented languages (e.g., scripting, visual, domain-specific, markup, macros, etc.)
• FND.mf.8. Grammars