CSE 413: Programming Languages and Their Implementation, Spring 2025

Links

Just for fun

• 99 Bottles of Beer: Programs written in over 1000 different languages to produce the classic song as output.

• Coder vs Cannibal Quiz: Can you spot the inventors of programming languages versus the serial killers?

• Hello World Collection: Who knew you could write the classic program in so many different languages?

• Wikipedia entry: Wikipedia is an excellent source of information about programming languages.

• Computer Language Benchmark Game: This page compares the performance of many popular programming languages on a wide variety of benchmarks. It includes all of the languages we will be studying.

• TIOBE Index: The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages.
• Why OCaml video of Yaron Minsky explaining why he convinced Jane Street to do most of their programming in OCaml.
• Lisp Quotes collected by software developer Paul Graham.

Computer Science Major:

• University of Washington - Why Choose CSE?
• Schedule of information sessions for those interested in majoring in CS
• How to meet with a CS undergraduate advisor
• nonmajors courses offered by CSE (see especially CSE373 and CSE374)
• Computing Community (the main CSE student organization)
• Women in Computing (focuses on diversity and women's issues in computing)