Teaching Material for Concepts in Programming Languages

Stanford CS 242

The Stanford course is a 10-week course covering most of the book. The course web site has

• Slides for lectures (current year posted incrementally, previous year set is complete)
• Supplementary reading material, such as historical papers, recommended books
• Programming information (primarily oriented toward Stanford students)
• Handouts, including sample midterm and final exams

Solutions to homework problems are available to instructors who list their courses below.

Courses at other universities

These courses use Concepts in Programming Languages as a primary text. Many of these course web sites contain a course material, such as a syllabus, homework problems,  programming projects, and exams, that may be useful in planning your course (if you are an instructor) or learning more about programming languages (if you are a student).

• Boston University MC366
• Cornell CS 411
• Dartmouth CS 68
• Drexel University CS560
• Florida International University COP 4555
• Grinnell College CS 302
• KAIST (Korea) CS320
• King's College London CSMAPT
• Oregon State CS 381
• San Jose State CS 252
• Universität des Saarlandes, Programming Languages
• Universität-GH Siegen  Konzepte höherer Programmiersprachen
• University of Bath
• UC Irvine  CSE 141
• UC Riverside CS 181
• UC Santa Cruz CMPS 112
• University of Colorado CS 5535
• University of Évora (Class?)
• University of Minnesota, Morris, CSci 4651
• University of Texas (Austin) CS 345 (Fall 2003, Spring 2004)
• University of Toronto CS CSC324
• University of Wisconsin Milwaukee CS 431
• Williams College CSCI 334

If you have a relevant course web site and you are willing to have it listed here, please send email to J. Mitchell.

Other adoptions

The book is also used as a supplementary or recommended additional text in a number of courses.
Some courses on logic programming and on computational linguistics use Chapter 15 (By K.R. Apt) alone.

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