COP 5555 - PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

                       Summer 2006

Instructor:      Dr. Manuel E. Bermudez
Schedule:        Tu: 5-6, Th 6 CSE 107
Office:          E362 CSE
Phone:           (352)-392-1534 (desk)
E-mail:          manuel@cise.ufl.edu
Office Hours:    See my home page: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~manuel/
Text:		 Programming Language Pragmatics, Michael Scott,
      		 second edition, Morgan Kaufman, 2000.
Class Notes:     available on my home page.
		


COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This  course  will cover the central principles of designing
and implementing   programming   languages.  The  four  main
paradigms of programming will becovered: imperative, object-
oriented, functional, and logic  programming.    Programming
language specification (syntax and semantics) is emphasized,
and special attention is given to  the  functional  paradigm
because of its usefulness in  specifying  the  semantics  of
imperative languages. There  will  be  a  class  project, in
which students  will  implement  portions  of  a programming
anguage.

At the end of this course, students should be able to:

1. Understand the  central  issues  and principles governing
   the design of modern programming languages.
2. Understand the  fundamental  differences between the four
   major programming language paradigms.
3. Understand  the  value  of  operational  and denotational
   semantic specifications of programming languages.
4. Implement a syntax analyzer for any programming language.
5. Understand the  process  of  translation  of a program in
   a high-level language to a low-level language.



PREREQUISITES:

COP  3530  Data  and  Program  Structures, graduate standing
and/or consent of instructor. Further, you should be a  pro-
ficient  programmer, capable of understanding and implement-
ing sophisticated data  structures  modularly,  quickly  and
efficiently.   Familiarity  with several high-level program-
ming languages is useful but not necessary.

ATTENDANCE:

Strongly recommended: class notes describe each of the major
components  of the class project, and they will be discussed
in class.  Attendance is mandatory for all tests.


GRADING:   Project (2 reports)   30%   Averages:   A    90-100
           Homeworks             10%               B+   86-89
           Midterm               25%               B    80-85
           Final                 35%               C+   76-79
                                                   C    70-75
                                                   D+   66-69
                                                   D    60-65
                                                   E    0-59


WORKLOAD:  Students who take this course often comment that the course
material is fundamental and important.  They also comment that the
course project can be quite demanding, and that the amount of material
covered is quite extensive.