Welcome to CS343S!

This is a new design-studio course for the creation of domain-specific languages (DSLs). We will start with lectures teaching fundamental skills for designing and implementing DSLs, followed by a long term project designing and implementing a DSL of the student's choice. The course will particularly emphasize the role that languages can play in tasks that we do not usually think of as programming, such as DSLs for knitting patterns or geometric constructions.

It is being held for the first time in Spring 2024.

Logistics

• Class: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:30AM-11:20AM, Littlefield 107 (mandatory)
• Office Hours:
  • AJ: Tuesdays, 1 PM - 2 PM, CoDa E450
  • Evan: TBD
  • Matthew: Mondays, 11 AM - 12 PM, CoDa W326 (limited individual appointments also available if needed --- email me)
• Submissions: Gradescope
• Announcements, Q&A: Ed (join)
• Anonymous feedback: form
• Staff: (all reachable at cs343s@cs.stanford.edu)
  • AJ Root (ajroot@stanford.edu)
  • Evan Laufer (emlaufer@stanford.edu)
  • Matthew Sotoudeh (sotoudeh@stanford.edu)

Assignments

• External Lab (15% of grade) - Due Thursday, April 17th
• Internal - Due Thursday, May 1st
• Clinic (Binary Formats) - Due Tuesday, May 6th
• Project - Various Subparts; See PDF

Class Schedule

All deadlines are at 11:59pm, except in-class presentations. The schedule is subject to change, and events marked with (?) are explicitly tentative.