CSCI 355
Programming Languages

Course Description:

CSCI 355  Programming Languages    Three Credit Hours
     Prerequisite: CSCI 223 and CSCI 305
     Required for B.S. degree in computer science.
     Programming language concepts and constructs with emphasis on the run-time behavior of programs. Topics include imperative, functional, and logic programming paradigms; language syntax and semantics; and global properties of programming languages including scope, parameter passing, storage allocation, and the binding time of constituents.

Major Topics:

• Programming languages history
• Language concepts
  • Values, types, and type systems
  • Variables and storage
  • Binding and scope
  • Procedural abstraction
• Language paradigms
  • Function programming
  • Logic programming
  • Imperative programming
  • Scripting

Course Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course, a student will be able to

• Discuss the principles and implementation issues which are fundamental to the design of high-level programming languages
• Explain the various programming paradigms
• Represent languages in BNF, EBNF and Syntax Chart notation
• Code solutions for simple problems in bash scripting, LISP and PROLOG.

Textbook:

Programming Languages: Principles and Paradigms (Second Edition) by Allen B. Tucker and Robert E. Noonan, McGraw-Hill, 2006.

Projected Schedule:

Every Spring

Recent Syllabi:

Spring 2012, Verdicchio