CS 334
Principles of Programming Languages
Lecture and Reading Schedule

Spring, 2002

Lecture Preparation:

I expect you to do the reading for a class before the lecture. I will not attempt to cover in lecture all the material in the readings. Instead my goal will be to cover the highlights or particularly difficult material. For this to work, you will need to already be familiar with the simpler aspects of the material. If you keep up your part of the bargain we should be able to have more interesting discussions in class, rather than just listening to me go over the text.

In readings, "L" stands for the text by Louden and Ullman is the ML text. The number following a letter is the chapter to be read.

Day Topic Reading
1 Preview, History, Expressions, & Functional Languages L: 1, 2, 11.1
2 Introduction to ML L: 11.2-11.4, U: 1-3.5, 7.1
3 More ML U: 5.1, 5.3-5.4.2, 5.5-5.6, 6, L: 11.5-11.6
4 Features of functional languages, U: 5.4.3-5.4.5,
5 More functional languages
6 Language processors, formal syntax L: 4
7 Variables and binding L: 11.7-11.8, L: 5.1-5.3
8 Bindings & scope, Types L: 5.4-5.6, 6.1-6.2
9 Type constructors L: 6.3-6.4
10 more types L: 6.5-6.9
11 Expressions and Statements L: 7
12 procedures L: 8.1-8.3
13 Memory management L: 8.4-8.6
Spring Break
14 Abstract Data Types and Modules L: 9
15 more ADT's Handout: Chap 5 of FOOL
16 Object-oriented languages L: 10.1-10.5
17 More OOL's L: 10.6-10.8, Handout: Chap 3 and 4 of FOOL
18 Expressiveness in OOL's; GJ & Eiffel GJ tutorial
19 More expressiveness in OOL's: LOOM
20 Semantics L: 13.1-13.3
21 Axiomatic semantics and program correctness L: 13.4-13.5
22 Concurrency L: 14
23 More concurrency
24 More concurrency
25 Language selection and design L: 3
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