CMSC 430: Design and Implementation of Programming Languages
Summer, 2026
Lecture: Weekdays, 10:00-11:15am, Online
Professor: David Van Horn
CMSC 430 is an introduction to compilers. Its major goal is to arm students with the ability to design, implement, and extend a programming language. Throughout the course, students will design and implement several related languages.
Staff | |
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dvanhorn@cs.umd.edu | |
Pierce Darragh | pdarragh@umd.edu |
Assumptions: This course assumes you know the material in CMSC 330 and CMSC 216. In particular, you need to know how to program in a functional programming language like OCaml and some familiarity with programming in C and Assembly. See the Texts page for references to brush up on this material.
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