Department
Princeton University

Computer Science 510
Programming Languages
Andrew Appel

Spring 2020

General Information       Schedule       Policies

This schedule and syllabus is subject to change, especially for dates more than 1 week in the future.

Lab sessions are listed on the main page.

Date Monday,    Wednesday Thu/Fri Homework
Feb 3-7 Introduction; functional programming (numbers, lists); basic proofs: Coq Installation Notes; Preface; Basics; Induction; Lists ( Basics.v, Induction.v, Lists.v ) Lab Homework 1
Feb 10-14 Sequent Calculus, Polymorphism, More basic tactics (Poly.v, Tactics.v) Lab Homework 2
Feb 17-21 Logic in Coq, Inductively defined propositions, Curry-Howard correspondence (Logic.v, IndProp.v, ProofObjects.v) Lab Homework 3
Feb 24-28 ML programming language; Caml core language, Caml reference; Ocaml+Emacs; interp.ml, lambda.ml; Binomial Queues, Maps Lab Homework 4
Mar 2-6 Proving correctness of functional programs, permutations, selection sort, insertion sort (VFA.v, Perm.v, Selection.v, Sort.v)
Maps, Search Trees, Abstract Data Types (Maps.v SearchTree.v, ADT.v)
Lab Homework 5
Mar 9-13 SOS, Imperative programs, Automation ( Imp.v, Auto.v); Search trees (SearchTree.v) Take-home midterm due
Spring Break
Mar 23-27 Program Equivalence (Equiv.v), Hoare Logic (Hoare.v) Lab Homework 6
Mar 30-Apr 3 Hoare Logic (Hoare2.v), Small-step operational semantics (Smallstep.v), Type systems (lecture notes; Types.v) Lab Homework 7
Apr 6-10 Simply typed lambda calculus; Type Soundness; subtyping (lecture notes, Stlc.v, StlcProp.v, Sub.v) Lab Homework 8
Apr 13-17 Satisfiability (reading: Boolean Satisfiability Solvers); Dafny (selection sort) Lab Homework 9
Apr 20-26 Separation Logic (read Chapters 2 and 3 of PLCC); Verifiable C. Lab
Apr 27-May 1 Verifying C programs (Verifiable C)
May 4 reading period -- no class. Do Homework 10 or Homework 11, not both! Homework 10 due
May 13 Homework 11 due (if you didn't do Homework 10) Homework 11