CS 4368 - Survey of Computer Languages

Course Description:

A survey of computer languages. Criteria for choosing languages to be covered include history, important development paradigms and environments, and language implementations.

Prerequisite:

• C or higher in CS 3358: Data Structures

Course Objectives:

1. Concepts and characteristics of imperative, functional, and logic programming languages
   
   
2. Understanding of data types (primitive and user-defined);
   
   
3. Abstract data types;
   
   
4. Issues and tools in language design and implementation, including non-procedural programming paradigms
   
   
5. Understanding symbolic programming.
   
   
6. Classes, objects and object-oriented concepts (inheritance);
   
   
7. Procedure/function invocations; parameter passing mechanisms;
   
   
8. Concepts of exception handling mechanisms in modern programming languages;
   
   
9. Elementary concepts of concurrency and concurrent programming (e.g. languages: Concurrent Euclid, Modula2, and ADA).

Course Notes:

None.

Section Info:

Lecture/Lab Hours: 3 hours lecture, 0 hours lab
Offered: Frequently (typically both Fall and Spring, and one summer session).