COSE212: Programming Languages, 2026 Fall

COSE212: Programming Languages, 2026 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 @ 610, IT & General Education Center (정운오IT교양관)
• Teaching Assistant: cose212@googlegroups.com
• Office hours: By appointment via e-mail

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

Grading

• 3 Projects: 0%
  • You will implement three different mini languages: MiniFSharp, MiniPython, and MiniScala.
  • They are not graded and need no submission. However, some exam questions might be related to them, so we strongly recommend solving them by yourself.
• Midterm exam: 40%
• Final exam: 50%
• Attendance: 10%
  • All or nothing: you get the full 10% if you attend at least 2/3 of the checks, and 0% otherwise.
  • There is no attendance check in the first week; it starts on September 7.

Attendance

Please use the LMS for the attendance check.

Exams

• Midterm: October 21 (Wed.) 18:30 – 21:00 (150 min.)
• Final: December 16 (Wed.) 18:30 – 21:00 (150 min.)
• Previous Exams
  • Midterm: 2023 (sol) / 2024 (sol) / 2025 (sol)
  • Final: 2023 (sol) / 2024 (sol) / 2025 (sol)

Lectures without Offline Classes

On the four days listed below, there will be no offline lectures. Instead, lecture videos will be uploaded to the LMS.

• October 5 (Mon.) / 7 (Wed.) – International Conference
• October 12 (Mon.) / 14 (Wed.) – International Conference

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 follow the step-by-step installation guide:

• Installation Guide (JDK and sbt)

If you prefer to install them yourself:

• JDK 21 (LTS) – Eclipse Temurin (JDK 17 also works; JDK 25 or later is not supported)
• sbt – https://www.scala-sbt.org/download/

Online Interpreters

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

Schedule