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Introdcution, Lecture notes of Aeronautical Engineering

Introduction to Principles of Programming

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2015/2016

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CSC 3112 Principles of
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Introduction
10th September 2015
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CSC 3112 Principles of

Programming Languages

Introduction 10 th September 2015

Outline

  • (^) Email: kenneth.bwire@gmail.com
  • (^) Office: Block A, Room 301B
  • (^) Lecture Hours: Monday, Tuesdays & Thursdays
  • (^) Student Hours: Thursday 2-4pm

2. Learning Outcome

• By the end of the course, we will

be able to:

  • Understand common language

paradigms

  • Know the different building blocks

of a programming language

  • Know how the different blocks of a

programming language interact

3. Prerequisites

  • (^) Programming Methodology I & II
  • (^) Automata, Complexity and Computability

5. Indicative Content

  • (^) Overview of programming language paradigms
  • (^) Common principles: syntax, syntax trees, formal semantics (denotational and operational), variables and binding
  • (^) Types: role of types in programming and programming languages, types and their operations: products, sums, functions, recursive types, reference and array types
  • (^) Primarily imperative issues: control flow, arrays, pointers and references, parameter- passing mechanisms, scoping
  1. Indicative Content cont...
    • (^) Type systems: strongly typed languages, type checking (static vs. dynamic), type equivalence (by name vs. structural), overloading, coercion, polymorphism, type inference
    • (^) Binding: declarations and environments. Block structure: scope and visibility, stack discipline. Bound occurrences: static vs. dynamic binding
    • (^) Encapsulation: information hiding, modules, abstract data types, classes
    • (^) Language implementation: parsing, code generation, garbage collection

7. Reading List

  • (^) Concepts of Programming Languages by Robert Sebesta, 10th Edition, 2012
  • Daniel P. Friedman and Mitchell Wand, Essentials of Programming Languages, 5th Edition, MIT Press, 2001
  • Principles of Programming Languages by Gilles Dowek , Springer 2009
  • Principles of Programming Languages by Pradnya Kashikar, Nilesh M. Magar
  • Principles of Programming Languages: Design, Evaluation, and Implementation by Bruce J. MacLennan
  • Principles of Programming Languages version 0.7 by Mike Grant, Zachary Palmer and Scott Smith

8. Class Rules

  • (^) No Plagiarism. Xeroxing will earn you a penalty
  • (^) Handin assignments within given timeframe.