This course will study the main principles underlying the design of programming languages. The first half of the course will focus on functional programming languages, as these tend to have the closest link to fundamental principles. We will use the Standard ML '97 programming language as a practical example of these design principles, learning the language and writing some interesting programs in it. We will complement this practical study with theoretical study of various lambda calculi and their formal semantics. The second half of the course will study object-oriented languages, including learning and programming in an advanced practical OO language (such as Cecil) and studying the formal semantics of OO languages via lambda calculus extensions.
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Each student is to do their own work independently. It is fine for students to discuss assignments together, even sketching out possible solutions together (but without taking any specific solutions away from the discussions), but each student should produce their own final solutions. The goal is for each student to learn as much as possible (often from other students in the course) but only turn in material that reflects their actual learning. In general, it is a violation of academic integrity to engage in an activity for the purpose of earning credit while avoiding learning, or to help others do so; see the department's academic misconduct page for more information. I have no tolerance for academic misconduct.