CSE 3341 (Bond): Principles of Programming Languages

The best ways to ask questions outside of class are on Piazza and at office hours. Unless your Piazza post needs to be private, make the post *public*, since other students may be interested in the question and answer.

If you need to contact the instructor and/or grader privately, make a private Piazza post (instead of using e-mail or Canvas). To set up an appointment outside of office hours, include your available times for at least three forthcoming weekdays.

See the syllabus for more information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UdwtoNJn1SVZwmI6pFPo1v6Hej_LB1bXHLWDEzy1l4Y/edit?usp=sharing

The official source for class times and office hours is the course Google Calendar. You can use the following links to view or import the course Google Calendar:

View web calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=q7i2c20cvsnsobmouk0sni99eo%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FNew_York

Import / subscribe to calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=q7i2c20cvsnsobmouk0sni99eo%40group.calendar.google.com

iCal:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/q7i2c20cvsnsobmouk0sni99eo%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

The official source for assignment due dates will be Carmen's Assignments, but the instructor will try to keep them consistent on the course Google Calendar.

We'll cover the following topics, mostly in the context of developing an interpreter for the Quandary language:

- Introduction (Chapter 1)
- Formal Languages, Grammars, and Parsing (Chapter 2)
- Imperative Languages (Chapters 6 and 8 in 3rd Edition; Chapters 6 and 9 in 4th Edition)
- Object-Oriented Languages, Types, and Memory Management (Chapters 7 and 9 in 3rd Edition; Chapters 7, 8, and 10 in 4th Edition)
- Concurrency and Parallelism (Chapter 12 in 3rd Edition; Chapter 13 in 4th Edition)
- Functional Languages (Chapter 10 in 3rd Edition; Chapter 11 in 4th Edition)

The chapters are from the the course textbook: Michael Scott's
Programming Language Pragmatics, 3rd or 4th Edition (http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~scott/pragmatics/). Reading the textbook isn't essential, but many students have found it helpful for presenting the material in a different way.

For the lecture slides corresponding to each topic, see the "Resources" tab.

Why students should study PL:
http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~rountev.1/6341/pdf/why.pdf

The Quandary reference interpreter, Quandary interpreter skeleton, Quandary examples, and other in-class code examples on GitHub:

https://github.com/mdbond/3341-Public

In case you haven't used git or GitHub before, here's a very brief tutorial:

(1) You can browse the code by visiting the link above.

(2) To get your own copy of the code:

  git clone https://github.com/mdbond/3341-Public.git

(3) To update your copy of 3341-Public with the latest instructor commits:

  git pull

You can find descriptions of assignments, submit your solutions, and see your grades on CarmenCanvas:

https://osu.instructure.com/courses/118537

Please read the syllabus carefully, including the "Things to be aware of in advance" section:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UdwtoNJn1SVZwmI6pFPo1v6Hej_LB1bXHLWDEzy1l4Y/edit?usp=sharing