CSCI 360 Survey Of Programming Languages

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CSCI 360Survey Of Programming Languages

• Spring, 2008
• Doug L Hoffman, PhD

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Course Overview

• When 115-230, Tu Th.
• Where McRey 317.
• Who Doug L. Hoffman
• Office Hours By appointment.
• Website http//www.dlhoffman.com/classnotes
• Syllabus will be available on the site soon.

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Course description

• This course will provide students with a solid
  foundation for understanding the fundamental
  concepts of programming languages. It will
  include coverage of concepts and constructs from
  languages like C, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP,
  Python, Ruby, XHTML, XSLT, and JSP. In addition
  to traditional imperative languages, aspects of
  functional programming, including Scheme and ML,
  and of logic programming, including Prolog, will
  be presented.

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Course Grading

• Home work 40
• 10 weekly assignments.
• Tests 50
• 2 Quizzes 10 of testing total.
• Mid-Term 30.
• Final 50.
• Class participation 10

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The Text

• Concepts of Programming Languages,
• Robert W. Sebesta

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Why Study Programming Languages?
CSCI 360 Survey Of Programming Languages
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Why Study Programming Languages?

• Increased capacity to express ideas.
• Improved background for choosing a language.
• Increased ability to learn new languages.
• Better understanding how languages are
  implemented.
• Better use of languages that are already known.
• Better overall understanding of computing.

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Programming Domains

• Scientific Applications
• Business Applications
• Artificial Intelligence
• Systems Programming
• The Web

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What Makes A Good Programming Language?
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The von Neumann Architecture
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A Language Taxonomy
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Modes of Language Execution

• Assembled
• Compiled
• Interpreted
• Mixed mode

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Program Compilation
Assembly code could go here
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Interpreted Execution
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Intermediate Code Interpretation
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Next Time

• The Evolution of Programming Languages