Programming Paradigms (Summer Semester 2023)

Overview

Lecturer Prof. Dr. Michael Pradel
Teaching assistants Islem Bouzenia, Huimin Hu, Beatriz Souza
Course type Lecture + Exercises
Language Lectures in German. All written material (slides, exercises, etc.) in English.
Ilias Ilias course with forum and quizzes
Location Universitätsstr. 38, 38.04

Content

This course introduces the concepts of programming languages. Starting from how to describe the syntax of a language, we will cover core language design concepts, such as scopes, binding, control flow, types, control abstraction, and data abstraction. The course discusses different programming language paradigms, including imperative languages, functional languages, and logic-based programming languages. We also cover language support for concurrency and features of dynamic languages. By gaining a deeper understanding of language concepts, the course enables students to make best use of a given programming language and to choose the most suitable language for a given development task.

Organization

The course will be classroom-first, i.e., to the extent possible, all activities will be in a physical classroom. Slides, other material, and lecture recordings will be made available during the semester, usually soon after the corresponding lecture. In addition, old lecture videos are available in this playlist. Note that the content covered in this semester is similar to, but not exactly the same as in the old videos.

Schedule of Lectures

This is a preliminary schedule and may be subject to change. "L" stands for lecture, and "E" stands for exercise. Deadlines for submitting exercises are shown in bold.

Date Topic Material
Apr 12, 11:30am L: Introduction
Apr 14, 11:30am L: Syntax
Apr 21, 11:30am L: Syntax
Apr 21, 11:59pm E: Exercise 1 published
May 3, 11:30am L: Syntax
May 4, 11:59pm E: Exercise 1 due
May 5, 11:30am L: Names, Scopes, Bindings
May 5, 11:59pm E: Exercise 2 published
May 8, 11:30am L: Control Flow
May 10, 11:30am L: Control Flow
May 12, 11:30am E: Discussion of Exercise 1
May 18, 11:59pm E: Exercise 2 due
May 18, 11:59pm E: Exercise 3 published
May 19, 11:30am E: Discussion of Exercise 2
May 22, 11:30am L: Type Systems
May 24, 11:30am L: Type Systems
May 26, 11:30am L: Type Systems
June 8, 11:59pm E: Exercise 3 due
June 8, 11:59pm E: Exercise 4 published
June 9, 11:30am E: Discussion of Exercise 3
June 12, 11:30am L: Composite Types
June 14, 11:30am L: Composite Types
June 22, 11:59pm E: Exercise 4 due
June 22, 11:59pm E: Exercise 5 published
June 23, 11:30am E: Discussion of Exercise 4
June 26, 11:30am L: Control Abstraction
June 28, 11:30am L: Data Abstraction
July 3, 11:30am L: Concurrency
July 5, 11:30am L: Concurrency
July 6, 11:59pm E: Exercise 5 due
July 6, 11:59pm E: Exercise 6 published
July 7, 11:30am E: Discussion of Exercise 5
July 10, 11:30am L: Functional Languages
July 12, 11:30am L: Logic Programming
July 20, 11:59pm E: Exercise 6 due
July 21, 11:30am E: Discussion of Exercise 6
Sep 7 Final Exam