Important Dates

• The final project reports are due by 6:00pm, Sunday, May 10, 2015. Please deposit the final project report for your team in your team folder on Courseworks. See final project report for suggestions on how to organize your report.


• Each team will be required to give a 20-minute presentation on their language and translator during May 11-13, 2015.
• All presentations will be in the Computer Science Conference Room, room 453, Computer Science Building.
• Presentation Schedule
• See language presentation suggestions for hints on how to give a good presentation.

Guest Lecturer

Bob serves on the advisory boards of several venture capital and startup companies. He was the Chief Technology Officer of Bell Laboratories and a Corporate Officer of the Software Business Unit at Bell Communications Research. He has extensive experience in the development of Unix and software systems for the telecommunications industry. He has served on the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board and the FCC's Technological Advisory Board. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and has a PhD in EECS from MIT.

A highlight of this course is a semester-long programming project in which you will work in a small team to create and implement an innovative little language of your own design. This project will teach you computational thinking in language design as well as project management, teamwork, and communication skills that you can apply in all aspects of your career.

Examples of past languages created in PLT can be found at
    Fall 2014 PLT Languages
    Spring 2014 PLT Languages
    Fall 2013 PLT Languages
    Spring 2013 PLT Languages

The concepts, techniques, and tools that you will learn in this course have broad application to many areas of computer science outside of programming languages and compilers.