Com Sci 221
Programming Languages

Department of Computer Science

The University of Chicago

Gopalan Nadathur will teach Com Sci 221 in winter 1996. These materials describe previous instances of the course taught by Mike O'Donnell. Mr. Nadathur will probably teach a similar course. He has decided to continue with the same textbook. Contact him to verify any details.

Last taught by me in winter 1995.
Instructor: Michael J. O'Donnell
Office: Ryerson 165B
Office hours: by appointment. Contact me by email (odonnell@cs.uchicago.edu), phone at the office (312-702-1269), or phone at home (847-835-1837 between 9:30 and 5:30 on days that I work at home). You may drop in to the office any time, but you may find me out or busy if you haven't confirmed an appointment. Check my personal schedule before proposing an appointment.
Course evaluations from previous quarters.

Last modified: Thu Jun 6 15:39:44 1996

Catalog Description

Programming language design aims at the closest possible correspondence between the structures of a program and of the problem that it solves. This course studies some of the structural concepts affecting programming languages --- iterative and recursive control flow, data types and type checking, procedural vs. functional programming, modularity and encapsulation, fundamentals of interpreting and compiling, formal descriptions of syntax and semantics. Students will write short programs in a number of radically different languages to illuminate the variety of possible designs.

Text: Programming Languages: Concepts and Constructs, by Ravi Sethi.

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