CS4400 — Programming Languages: Reviews & Ratings

Name: CS4400 — Programming Languages
Rating: 3.57 (21 reviews)

CS4400 (Programming Languages) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Average rating 3.6/5. Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.

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.

Average rating: 3.6/5
Difficulty: 3.5/5
Ratings: 21
Last taught: Fall 2026
Credits: 4 Hours
Prerequisites: (CS 3100 with a minimum grade of D- or CIS 310M with a minimum grade of D- or CS 3500 with a minimum grade of D- ); (CS 3000 with a minimum grade of D- or CS 4800 with a minimum grade of D- )

Professors

Eliyahu Barzilay
Chieh Wu
Matthias Felleisen
Steven Holtzen
Ehsan Elhamifar

Data updated October 2026.

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