UCLA Computer Science 131, Winter 2016.
Programming Languages

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

Instructor: Paul Eggert, Boelter 4532J. Office hours are Mondays 10:00–11:00 and Thursdays 14:00–15:00.

Teaching assistants:

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.

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