UCLA Computer Science 131, winter 2020.
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, Engineering VI 363. Office hours are Mondays 10:00–11:00 and Thursdays 09:30–10:30.

Teaching assistants, with office hours announced on CCLE:

• Lab 1A. F 10:00. Kimmo Kärkkäinen <kimmo@cs.ucla.edu>
• Lab 1B. F 12:00. Zhiping (Patricia) Xiao <patriciaxiao@g.ucla.edu>
• Lab 1C. F 12:00. Xinyu Ma <xinyuma@g.ucla.edu>
• Lab 1D. F 14:00. Shruti Sharan <shruti5596@g.ucla.edu>
• Lab 1E. F 16:00. Jaspreet Arora <jaspreet.hd@gmail.com>

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 (CS2013) 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 knowledge areas in the IEEE Software Engineering Body of Knowledge, Version 3.0 (SWEBOK V3.0), 2014:

1. 3.4.2 Object-oriented runtime issues
2. 3.4.3 Parameterization and generics
3. 3.4.5 Error handling, exception handling, and fault tolerance
4. 3.4.9 Grammar-based input processing
5. 13.4. Programming Language Basics
6. 13.10. Compiler Basics