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# Cambridge: Semantics of Programming Languages
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## Descriptions
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- Offered by: University of Cambridge
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- Prerequisites: elementary Discrete Mathematics, including logic and proof methodology, basic functional programming
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- Programming Languages: OCaml (ML)
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- Difficulty: 🌟🌟🌟
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- Class Hour: 20 to 30 hours (12 hours of lecture)
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This course offers a structural, operational approach to programming language semantics. It provides a very beginner-friendly but mathematically rigorous introduction to the constructs and specification declaration of programming languages, in the context of actually defining and designing a language. It is also one of the few PLT courses that offers publicly available videos.
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The course covers semantics topics ranging from operational and denotational semantics. The course starts with introducing the basic operational semantics of a simple imperative language defined by BNF, and gradually coming to introducing formal type systems, using mathematical induction (especially structural induction) to build rule-based induction proofs. It then comes to how we manipulate data under a functional programming perspective and introduces subtyping and handling of functions. Finally it comes to the discussion of semantics equivalence, congruence property and semantics under concurrency.
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This course was taught to 2nd year undergraduate students, however building up some very important concepts. It would be a pivotal capstone for further studies on type theory, category theory, hoare logic and model checking.
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## Course Resources
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- Course Website: [Latest](https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2324/Semantics/)
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- Recordings: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-2hPK7m5S3hVagseKDPxCBZEqg0PqZhs)
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- Textbooks:
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- Pierce, B.C. (2002). _Types and programming languages_. MIT Press.
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- Winskel, G. (1993). _The formal semantics of programming languages_. MIT Press.
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- Assignments: Related Past Paper Questions are listed [here](https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/exams/pastpapers/t-SemanticsofProgrammingLanguages.html), however solutions and tutorial sheets are visible to internal students only.
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