COSC 2P05 Course Outline

Michael Winter, Office MCC J323, Office Hours: Mon & Thu, 10:00am - noon, email: [email protected]

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 10/14	1,2	Introduction, Evolution of programming languages
2	Sep 17/21	2	Evolution of programming languages
3	Sep 24/28	5, 6	Names, Bindings, Scope, Data types
4	Oct 01/05	6, 7	Data types, Expressions and assignments
5*	Oct 08/19	8	Control structures (Midterm 1)
6	Oct 22/26	9, 10	Subprograms
7	Oct 29/Nov 02	11	Abstract data type
8	Nov 05/09	12	Object-oriented languages
9	Nov 12/16	13	Concurrency (Midterm 2)
10	Nov 19/23	15	Functional programming languages
11	Nov 26/30	15, 16	Functional programming languages, Logic programming languages
12	Dec 03/07	16	Logic programming languages, Review

^* Oct 12-16 is Reading Week.

Texts

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