UCLA Computer Science 131, Winter 2017.
Programming Languages

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

• Piazza
• Course material news
• Syllabus
• Programming language resources
• Resources for oral presentations and written reports
• Homework
• Grading

Instructor: Paul Eggert, Boelter 4532J. Office hours are Mondays 10:00–11:00 and Wednesdays 13:30–14:30.

Teaching assistants:

• Rachel Chu <rhchu8@cs.ucla.edu>. Office hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays 13:30–14:30 in Boelter 2432.
• Theresa Tong <theresa.t@cs.ucla.edu>. Office hours are Mondays 15:30–16:30 and Wednesdays 11:00–12:00 in Boelter 2432.
• Tomer Weiss <tweiss@cs.ucla.edu>. Office hours are Mondays and Tuesdays 09:00–10:00 in Boelter 3815.
• Seunghyun Yoo <shyoo1st@cs.ucla.edu>. Office hours are Mondays and Tuesdays 17:30–18:30 in Boelter 2432.

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

Prerequisites: Computer Science 32, 33, and 35L.

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.

For why this course is important, please see:

• Freund SN, Grossman D, Bruce K et al. Why undergraduates should learn the principles of programming languages, 2011-02-06

Related Computer Science Curricula 2013 knowledge areas:

• PL/Functional Programming
• PL/Logic Programming
• PL/Object-Oriented Programming
• PL/Event-Driven and Reactive Programming
• PL/Basic Type Systems
• PL/Type Systems
• PL/Program Representation
• PL/Program Translation and Execution
• PL/Syntax Analysis
• PL/Compiler Semantic Analysis
• PL/Runtime Systems
• PL/Language Pragmatics
• PL/Concurrency and Parallelism
• PL/Advanced Programming Constructs
• PL/Formal Semantics

Related 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