Professor
comar@umich.edu
4:30-6:30pm, MW, 1571 GGBL
EECS 490: Programming Languages
Winter 2020
Students will gain a modern understanding of programming language design and implementation. The emphasis will be on building up from first principles and on understanding programming languages simultaneously as formal structures and as human-computer interfaces.
The purpose of this course is to change the way you think about programming and programming language design in ways that will remain relevant across the many technology hype cycles that you will encounter over the course of your careers.
See the syllabus for all of the details.
Schedule
| Day | # | Lecture Topic | Deadline | Readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 8 Jan | 1 | Course Overview + Programming with Expressions | RWO Guided Tour (through Records and Variants) | |
| Mon 13 Jan | 2 | Recursive Datatypes and Recursion Schemes | Optional: Cornell CS 3110 Notes Ch. 4, RWO Lists and Patterns (through Tail Recursion) | |
| Wed 15 Jan | 3 | Equational and Inductive Reasoning | Princeton COS 326 Notes on Reasoning About Programs | |
| Mon 20 Jan | No class - MLK Day | Assignment 1 + Survey 1 (on Canvas) due Tues 21 Jan, 8pm | Optional: PFPL 1.1, 2.1-2.3, 5.1-5.2, TAPL Ch. 4 | |
| Wed 22 Jan | 4 | Notation, Structure, and Semantics | ||
| Mon 27 Jan | 5 | Types and Variables | Assignment 2 due Tues 28 Jan, 8pm | Optional: PFPL 4, 5.1-5.2 |
| Wed 29 Jan | 6 | Functions, Products | Optional: PFPL 8.2, 10.1 | |
| Mon 3 Feb | 7 | Sums, Exceptions | Assignment 3 due Wed 5 Feb, 4pm (free late day) | Optional: PFPL 11.1 |
| Wed 5 Feb | 8 | Recursive Expressions | Optional: PFPL 19.1, 19.2 | |
| Mon 10 Feb | 9 | Recursive Types | Assignment 4 due Tues 11 Feb, 8pm | Optional: PFPL 20.1 |
| Wed 12 Feb | 10 | Parametric Polymorphism | Optional: PFPL 16.1 | |
| Mon 17 Feb | 11 | Modules and Abstract Data Types | Assignment 5 due Thurs 20 Feb, 8pm | |
| Wed 19 Feb | 12 | Gradual Typing, Dynamic Tagging, and Typed Holes | ||
| Mon 24 Feb | 13 | Proofs are Programs | ||
| Wed 26 Feb | 14 | Midterm (during lecture slot, Room TBD) | ||
| Mon 3 Mar | No class - Spring Break | |||
| Wed 5 Mar | ||||
| Mon 9 Mar | 15 | References, Side Effects, and Loops | ||
| Wed 11 Mar | 16 | Encapsulated Commands (i.e. Haskell's "IO Monad") | ||
| Mon 16 Mar | 17 | Imperative Program Verification | Assignment 6 due Tues 17 Mar, 8pm | |
| Wed 18 Mar | 18 | |||
| Mon 23 Mar | 19 | Ownership and Borrowing in Rust | Assignment 7 due Tues 24 Mar, 8pm | |
| Wed 25 Mar | 20 | |||
| Mon 30 Mar | 21 | Parallelism | Assignment 8 due Tues 31 Mar, 8pm | |
| Wed 1 Apr | 22 | Cost Semantics | ||
| Mon 6 Apr | 23 | Concurrency | Assignment 9 due Tues 7 Apr, 8pm | |
| Wed 8 Apr | 24 | Distributed Programming | ||
| Mon 13 Apr | 25 | Special Topics (TBD) | Assignment 10 due Tues 14 Apr, 8pm | |
| Wed 15 Apr | 26 | Special Topics (TBD) | ||
| Mon 20 Apr | 27 | Special Topics (TBD) | ||
| Thu 30 Apr | Final Exam 10:30am-12:30pm (Room TBD) |
People
David Moon
GSI
dmoo@umich.edu
9:30-10:30am, F, 104 EWRE
Ethan Brooks
GSI
ethanbro@umich.edu
1:30pm-2:30pm, F, 107 GF
Gabriel Matute
IA
gmatute@umich.edu
Hannah Potter
GSI
hkpotter@umich.edu
10:30am-11:30am, F, 1024 FXB