CSE 3341: Principles of Programming Languages
Spring 2013
Who
Students: primarily for upper-level undergraduates; also graduate students (as 5341)
Instructor: Michael Bond
Grader: Miaojun Yao
What
Formal languages and grammars; recursive descent parsing; data types, expressions, control structures, parameter passing;
compilers and interpreters; memory management; functional programming principles; concurrency and parallelism
Topics, Slides, Readings, Assignments, and Schedule
Carmen (Grades)
Piazza (Discussion Board)
Syllabus
When and Where
Class meetings:
Tuesdays and Thursdays,
2:20–3:40 pm,
Stillman Hall 245
Instructor's office hours (DL 697):
Office hours updated for final exam week and beyond.
See Piazza for details.
Tuesdays 11:00–12:00 and Fridays 11:00–12:00, or
by appointment
(to make an appointment, e-mail Mike and include your availability: days and times)
When visiting office hours, or if you have a scheduled appointment,
please alert Mike to your presence as soon as you arrive by knocking or saying hi, even if he's meeting
someone else at that time.
Grader's office hours (Caldwell 420): Wednesdays 4:00–5:00 and Thursdays 11:30–12:30,
or by appointment
(to make an appointment, e-mail the grader and include your availability: days and times)
On University holidays, instructor and grader office hours are canceled.
Why
The SIGPLAN Education Board recently
explained why
senior undergraduates should learn about the principles of PLs.
Two other answers to the "why" question:
Robert Harper
and
Robert Cameron.
Acknowledgments
Many thanks to Nasko Rountev for his course materials,
and to Nasko Rountev and Neelam Soundarajan for advice and feedback.