COSC 2P05 Course Outline

Instructor: Michael Winter, Office MCC J323, Office Hours: Mon & Thu, 11:00am - 01:00pm, email: mwinter@brocku.ca

Calendar description

Fundamental concepts of programming languages including syntax, semantics, program translation, virtual machines, control, data types, multi-threading, exception handling and abstraction mechanisms. Introduction to programming paradigms including imperative, applicative, logic and object-oriented.

Lectures, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: COSC 2P03 (minimum 60 percent).

Course Outline

Week	Date	Book/Chapt.	Topics
1	Sep 07/11	1,2	Introduction, Evolution of programming languages
2	Sep 14/18	2	Evolution of programming languages
3	Sep 21/25	5, 6	Names, Bindings, Scope, Data types
4	Sep 28/Oct 02	6, 7	Data types, Expressions and assignments
5*	Oct 05/16	8	Control structures (Midterm 1)
6	Oct 19/23	9, 10	Subprograms
7	Oct 26/30	11	Abstract data type
8	Nov 02/06	12	Object-oriented languages
9	Nov 09/13	13	Concurrency (Midterm 2)
10	Nov 16/20	15	Functional programming languages
11	Nov 23/27	15, 16	Functional programming languages, Logic programming languages
12	Nov 30/Dec 04	16	Logic programming languages, Review

^* Oct 09-13 is Reading Week.

Texts

Sebesta, Robert W.: Concepts of Programming Languages (12th edition) Pearson, 2019, ISBN: 9780135102268