CIS 505/705, (Introduction to) Programming Languages
Fall 2023 Schedule

This schedule is subject to (hopefully only minor) modifications

General remarks

Schedule

Class     TopicsLab ProjectExam
1: Mon
Aug 21		 Introduction
2: Wed
Aug 23 		Basic OCaml
3: Fri
Aug 25 		Functions (I) OCaml Lab 1 out
4: Mon
Aug 28 		Functions (II)
5: Wed
Aug 30 		List Functions (I)
6: Fri
Sep 1 		List Functions (II) OCaml Lab 1 in
OCaml Lab 2 out
7: Wed
Sep 6 		Dictionaries
8: Fri
Sep 8 		Set representations OCaml Lab 2 in Project 1 out
9: Mon
Sep 11 		Introduce Project 1:
  • write in OCaml an interpreter for
    a simple interactive language
Exceptions
10: Wed
Sep 13 		Data Types
11: Fri
Sep 15 		Functions on Trees
12: Mon
Sep 18 		Review session Project 1 in
13: Wed
Sep 20 		Exam 1
14: Fri
Sep 22 		Recursion OCaml Lab 3 out
15: Mon
Sep 25 		Lazy Evaluation
16: Wed
Sep 27 		Wrap up functional programming
Discuss and give back Exam 1
17: Fri
Sep 29 		Motivate and discuss Project 2:
  • write an interpreter for an imperative language
and give the necessary background 		OCaml Lab 3 in Project 2 out
18: Mon
Oct 2 		Parsing (I)
19: Wed
Oct 4 		Parsing (II, ambiguity)
20: Fri
Oct 6 		Parsing (III, parsing functions) Parsing Lab out
21: Mon
Oct 9 		Interpreting a First-Order Functional Language (I) Project 2 in
22: Wed
Oct 11 		Interpreting a First-Order Functional Language (II)
23: Fri
Oct 13 		Interpreting a Higher-Order Functional Language Parsing Lab in
24: Mon
Oct 16 		Review session.
25: Wed
Oct 18 		Exam 2
26: Fri
Oct 20 		Motivate and discuss Project 3:
  • write an interpreter for a higher-order functional language
Project 3 out
27: Mon
Oct 23 		Logic Refresher (I, propositional)
28: Wed
Oct 25 		Interpreting A Higher Order Language with Mutations
29: Fri
Oct 27 		Motivate and discuss Project 4:
  • write an interpreter for an object-oriented language
Project 4 out
30: Mon
Oct 30 		Logic Refresher (II, predicate) Project 3 in
31: Wed
Nov 1 		Prolog: Basics (I)
32: Fri
Nov 3 		Prolog: Basics (II) Prolog Lab out
33: Mon
Nov 6 		Prolog: Advanced (I) Project 4 in
34: Wed
Nov 8 		Prolog: Advanced (II)
35: Fri
Nov 10 		Prolog: Applications Prolog Lab in
36: Mon
Nov 13 		Review session
37: Wed
Nov 15 		Exam 3
Fri
Nov 17 		No class Project 5 out
38: Mon
Nov 27 		Motivate and discuss Project 5:
  • write in Prolog an interpreter for a query language
Wed
Nov 29 		discuss the CIS705 project
39: Fri
Dec 1 		discuss the CIS705 project
Mon
Dec 4 		discuss the CIS705 project Project 5 in
Wed
Dec 6 		discuss the CIS705 project
Fri
Dec 8 		discuss the CIS705 project
Mon
Dec 11
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Fri
Dec 15 		CIS705 presentations
at selected times