Principles of Programming Languages | BS in Applied Computer Science

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*Note: This course description is only applicable for the Computer Science Post-Baccalaureate program. Additionally, students must always refer to course syllabus for the most up to date information.

Credits: 4.0
Prerequisites: CSPB or CSCI 2270 - Computer Science 2: Data Structures and CSCI 2824 - Discrete Structures, both with minimum grade C-.
Minimum Passing Grade: C-
Textbook: This course uses an interactive online textbook, "Programming in Scala, 3rd edition", available for free online through the university library. There are also additional readings embedded into the course lessons.

Brief Description of Course Content

Study fundamental concepts on which programming of languages are based, and execution models supporting them. Topics include values, variables, bindings, type systems, control structures, exceptions, concurrency, and modularity. Learn how to select a language and to adapt to a new language.

Specific Goals

Specific Outcomes of Instruction

Learn new programming languages quickly
Choose the language for a programming task
Write pure functional code
Write new languages or APIs with clear semantics
Read and write context-free grammars and parsers

Brief List of Topics to be Covered

Scala
Javascript
Program Semantics
Context-free grammars
Recursion and higher-order functions
Algebraic Data Types
Expression Trees
Type checking
Mutable State
Scope, bindings, and closures
Currying
Callbacks and Continuation-Passing Style

Mathematical Concepts Used

Regular Expressions, context-free grammars, proofs about program properties, recursion and induction.

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