Programming Languages (CSCI 374)

Spring Semester 2025

The instructor for CSCI 374 this semester is

Professor Jinwoo Kim(jwkim@jjay.cuny.edu)

Course Description
(From the Syllabus:)

"The goal of this course is to provide a foundation for understanding, designing, and implementing programming languages. In this course we will study essential concepts and structures found in modern programming languages. We will not focus on any one particular language, but rather we will examine features found in many different languages.
We will also compare different programming paradigms, including imperative, functional, logic, and object-oriented. We will study the specification of programming language syntax and semantics, and the verification of program properties."

Course Syllabus

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Course Announcements

Final Exam: 3:30 PM ~ 5:30 PM, May 20, 2025

Homework #4: Due by Final Exam (Specific questions for each chapter can be found at the end of lecture note 8, 11, and 12)

Chapter 8 Problems in the text book
Chapter 9, 10 Problems (refer lecture note for specific questions)

Chapter 9 Problems in the text book

Chapter 10 Problems in the text book

10.8: Pascal allows gotos with nonlocal targets. How could such statements be handled if static chains were used for nonlocal variable access?
10.9: The static-chain method could be expanded slightly by using two static links in each activation record instance where the second points to the static grandparent activation record instance. How would this approach affect the time required for subprogram linkage and nonlocal references?

Project 2 ML Project: Due by Final Exam

Homework #3: Due by April 24, 2025