EECS 490: Programming Languages

Fall 2019

Fundamental concepts in programming languages. Covers theoretical foundations as well as common paradigms such as functional, object-oriented, and logic programming. Build a parser and interpreter for Scheme and a compiler for a C-like language.

See the syllabus for all the details.

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Day	#	Lecture Topic	Deadline	Readings
Tue 3 Sep	1	Introduction and Basic Elements		Introduction, Basic Python, Basic Elements, Names and Environments
Thu 5 Sep	2	Names and Environments
Tue 10 Sep	3	Control Flow	HW1 due Fri 13 Sep 8pm	Control Flow, Memory Management
Thu 12 Sep	4	Memory Management
Tue 17 Sep	5	Grammars	Project 1 due Mon 16 Sep 8pm	Grammars, Functions, , Introduction to Scheme
Thu 19 Sep	6	Functions
Tue 24 Sep	7	Recursion and Higher-Order Functions	HW2 due Fri 27 Sep 8pm	Recursion, Higher-Order Functions
Thu 26 Sep	8	Functional Programming Examples
Tue 1 Oct	9	Lambdas	Project 2 due Fri 4 Oct 8pm	Lambda Functions, Continuations
Thu 3 Oct	10	Continuations
Tue 8 Oct	11	Lambda Calculus	HW3 due Fri 11 Oct 8pm	Lambda Calculus
Thu 10 Oct	12	Lambda Calculus II
Tue 15 Oct		No class - Fall Study Break		Operational Semantics
Thu 17 Oct	13	Operational Semantics
Tue 22 Oct	14	Formal Type Systems	Project 3 due Mon 21 Oct 8pm	Formal Type Systems
Thu 24 Oct		Midterm during class time	Midterm exam Thu 24 Oct 12noon
Tue 29 Oct	15	Object-Oriented Programming		Functional Data Abstraction, Object-Oriented Programming, Inheritance and Polymorphism
Thu 31 Oct	16	Inheritance and Polymorphism
Tue 5 Nov	17	Static and Dynamic Typing	HW4 due Fri 8 Nov 8pm	Static Analysis, Dynamic Typing, Generics, Modules and Namespaces
Thu 7 Nov	18	Generics and Modules
Tue 12 Nov	19	Logic Programming		Logic Programming
Thu 14 Nov	20	Logic Programming II
Tue 19 Nov	21	Logic, Constraints, and Dependencies	Project 4 due Mon 18 Nov 8pm	Constraints and Dependencies, Macros and Code Generation
Thu 21 Nov	21	Macros and Code Generation
Tue 26 Nov	22	Template Metaprogramming		Template Metaprogramming
Thu 28 Nov		No class - Thanksgiving
Tue 3 Dec	23	Advanced Metaprogramming	HW5 due Mon 2 Dec 8pm	Example: Multidimensional Arrays, Parallel Computing
Thu 5 Dec	24	Parallel Computing
Tue 10 Dec	25	TBD	Project 5 due Tue 10 Dec 8pm
Thu 19 Dec		Final Exam	Final Exam Thu 19 Dec 8am