UCLA Computer Science 131, Fall 2009.
Programming Languages

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

• News
• Syllabus
• Programming language resources
• Resources for oral presentations and written reports
• Homework
• Grading

Instructor: Paul Eggert, Boelter 4532J. Office hours are Mondays 12:50–13:50 and Wednesdays 11:00–12:00.

Assistant: Jerry Weng (Jui-Ting Weng) <jtweng@cs.ucla.edu>. Office hours are Tuesdays 12:00–13:00 and Wednesdays 12:00–13:00 in Boelter 4428.

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

Prerequisites: Computer Science 32, 33.

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.

Related Computer Science Curriculum 2008 (CS2008) bodies of knowledge:

• PL/Overview
• PL/DeclarationsAndTypes
• PL/AbstractionMechanisms
• PL/ObjectOrientedProgramming
• PL/FunctionalProgramming
• PL/TypeSystems
• PL/ProgrammingLanguageSemantics
• PL/ProgrammingLanguageDesign
• OS/Scripting

Related IEEE/ACM 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