COSE212: Programming Languages, 2025 Fall

COSE212: Programming Languages, 2025 Fall

The primary goal of this course is to learn essential concepts of programming languages by designing and implementing their interpreters.

Course Information

• Instructor: Jihyeok Park (박지혁)
  • Office: 507, IT & General Education Center (정운오IT교양관)
  • Email: jihyeok_park@korea.ac.kr
• Lecture: 13:30–14:45 Mondays and Wednesdays @ B102, IT & General Education Center (정운오IT교양관)
• Teaching Assistant: cose212@googlegroups.com
  • Seongmin Ko (고성민)
  • Hyunjoon Kim (김현준)
  • Minseok Choe (최민석)
• Office hours: 14:00–16:00 Tuesdays (by appointment)

Course Materials

• Self-contained lecture notes are provided.
• Reference:
  • Introduction to Programming Languages by Jaemin Hong and Sukyoung Ryu
  • Types and Programming Languages, Benjamin C. Pierce, The MIT Press

Attendances and Homework

Please use the LMS for the attendance check and the submission of homework.

Policy on Academic Integrity

The use of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, is permitted and encouraged. However, students remain fully responsible for the originality and comprehension of all submitted work. The following rules apply when evaluating coding assignments. Violations will be treated as academic dishonesty and will result in one of the following consequences: a grade of zero (0) on the assignment, or, in the most serious cases, an automatic grade of F for the entire course.

• Submissions that exhibit direct copy-and-paste similarity with other students’ work, or copying with superficial or uninformed modifications, constitute academic dishonesty.

• The instructor reserves the right to require an oral explanation of any submitted code. Inability to provide a clear, reasonable, and coherent explanation will be deemed proof that the work is not the student’s own.

Exams

• Midterm: October 22 (Wed.) 18:30 – 21:00 (150 min.)
• Final: December 17 (Wed.) 18:30 – 21:00 (150 min.)
• Previous Exams
  • Midterm: 2023 / 2024
  • Final: 2023 / 2024

Installation of Scala and sbt

Scala is a general-purpose programming language combining object-oriented and functional programming in one concise, high-level language. Scala’s static types help avoid bugs in complex applications, and its JVM and JavaScript runtimes let you build high-performance systems with easy access to huge ecosystems of libraries.

The interactive build tool sbt is built for Scala and Java projects.

Please download and install them using the following links:

• JDK >= 17 - https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/
• sbt - https://www.scala-sbt.org/download.html
• Scala - https://www.scala-lang.org/download/

Online Interpreters

In this course, you will implement interpreters for the following languages:

Schedule