CSE 341: Programming Languages

Autumn 2008

General Information

• Syllabus
• Schedule
• CSE 341 course discussion board and mailing list
• Previous 341 offerings

Meetings

• Lecture: MWF 12:30-1:20, CMU 120
• Section AA: Th 9:30-10:20, EEB 042
• Section AB: Th 10:30-11:20, EEB 042
• Section AC: Th 11:30-12:20, JHN 111

Topics

• Haskell and Functional Programming
• Scheme
• Constraint Logic Programming
• Ruby
• Java Generics and Nested Classes
• General Programming Language Concepts

Other Class Materials and Homework

• Assignments, Turnin, and Grade book
• Using Linux and Emacs in CSE 341

Some assignments will include "extra credit" sections. These will enrich your understanding of the material, but deliberately will provide scant credit in proportion to the work required. Do them for what you'll learn beyond the basics, not the points, and don't even think about starting the extra credit portion until the main problems are complete.

Exams

• Potential midterm exam topics (and study checklist)
• Midterm; sample solution
• Course Topic Summary (and final exam study checklist)
• Final; sample solution; derivation trees solution

Optional review session for final: Wed Dec 10, 4:30-5:30, EEB 037.

For practice exams, see previous offerings of the course, in particular for Autumn 2006. The mini-exercises are also good study material.

Staff

Instructor:

• Alan Borning, borning at cs. Office hours: Wed Fri 2:00pm-3:00pm. I'm going to try having office hours in one of the ugrad labs -- CSE 002. Regular office: CSE 644

TAs:

• Patrick Carroll (patcar at cs). Office Hours: Mon 2:30-3:30, CSE 002.
• Derek Cheng (imcheng at cs). Office hours: Mon 3:30-4:30, Tues 1:30pm-2:30pm, CSE 006.
• Amit Levy (levya at cs). Office Hours: Thurs 10:30-12:30, CSE 002.
• Theresa Portzer (tportzer at cs). Office Hours: Tues Thurs 3:00pm-4:00pm, CSE 006.
• Scott Shawcroft (tannewt at cs). Office Hours: Tues Wed 10:30am-11:20am, CSE 002.

You can email all the TAs and the instructor at cse341-staff at cs.