Principles of Programming Languages (Com S 342)

This page gives access to information about the course offerings of ``Principles of Programming Languages'' as taught (in Fall 1995, Spring 1996, Fall 1997, Fall 1998, and Spring 1999) by Gary T. Leavens for the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University.

This is an old offering of the course, taught from the book Essentials of Programming Languages by Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand, and Christopher T. Haynes (MIT Press and McGraw-Hill, 1992).

Information about my latest offering of this course at Iowa State is also available.

Also available is information about a newer offering of this course taught in Fall 2000 at the University of Iowa.

Information is available under the following headings.

• Old Overview
• Old Course Description
• Old Administrative Information
• Old Prerequisites
• Old Objectives
• Old Textbooks
• Old Syllabus

Also available (some only locally) are the following.

• Old meeting outlines
• Old lecture notes.
• Old homeworks.
• Old tests (in postscript form).
• The old course library. There is a also a zip file of the course library. The library lets you use the character string parsers more easily. These also contain a few things from chapters we didn't use in the course.
• The download directory, which contains a locally cached copy of the sources for SCM. See the README file for details.
• Detailed old information about the course. This includes:
  • old course specification.
  • old course policies
  • old staff office hours
  • debugging aids for SCM and how to read SCM's error messages.
  • the old reserve list
  • the type notation used in the course.
• Sources for the textbook including errata for the textbook and postscript for the revision to chapter 6.
• Fabric-painted T-shirts I used in this course.
• Other programming language related links.
• Functional programming in the real world by Phil Wadler.