CS 4400 — Programming Languages

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureusually offered: fall, springtypical days: TBostonTraditional

Introduces a systematic approach to understanding the behavior of programming languages. Covers interpreters; static and dynamic scope; environments; binding and assignment; functions and recursion; parameter-passing and method dispatch; objects, classes, inheritance, and polymorphism; type rules and type checking; and concurrency.

Prerequisites

all of:
- one of:
  - CS 3100 (min D-)
  - CIS 310M
  - CS 3500 (min D-)
- one of:
  - CS 3000 (min D-)
  - CS 4800 (min D-)

Offering history

Term	Sections	Enrolled	Capacity	Full	Open seats/section
Fall 2023	2	88	106	83%	9.0
Spring 2024	2	119	118	101%	0.0
Fall 2024	2	94	138	68%	22.0
Spring 2025	2	124	170	73%	23.0
Fall 2025	2	49	68	72%	9.5
Spring 2026	2	73	123	59%	25.0

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 46% · T 54% · W 42% · Th 9% · F 2%

Common patterns: T (52% of sections), MW (33% of sections), MWR (9% of sections), M (4% of sections), TF (2% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Fall

Eliyahu Barzilay (46% of students) · reviews
Steven Holtzen (23% of students) · reviews
Matthias Felleisen (21% of students) · reviews
Joydeep Mitra (10% of students) · reviews

Spring

Steven Holtzen (60% of students) · reviews
Eliyahu Barzilay (36% of students) · reviews
Christopher Martens (3% of students) · reviews

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

Unlocks

CS 4410

Courses that list CS 4400 in their prerequisites.

Links

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