Course Title: programming Languages Total Credits: 3

Textbook: Robert Sebesta, Concepts of Programming Languages, Addison Wesley, 2005.

References: ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES

Office Hours:

 Office  MS303.
 Phone (860) 832-2714.
 E-mail abdollah@ccsu.edu
 

Office hours MW 4:45 to 5:10 and 6:30 to 8:05pm and TR 8:00 to 8:30 PM

Course Goals: To Provide students with the solid foundations of different programming languages and their application.

Prerequisites by Topics

Familiarity and complete understanding of at least one high level language like C, C++, or Pascal

concept and techniques for structuring and manipulating data.

Major topics Covered in the course

1. The role of programming of programming languages ( 1.5 hours)

2. Language description: syntactic structures (3 hours)

3. Statements: structured programming (3 hours)

4. Types: Data representation (4.5 hours)

1. Procedure activations (5 hours)

2. Grouping of data and operations (5 hours)

3. Object oriented programming (5 hours)

4. Element of functional programming, (3 hours)

5. Functional programming in a typed language (3 hours)

6. Functional programming with lists (3 hours)

7. An introduction to concurrent programming (2 hours)

Laboratory Projects

1. Few small program to understand the structures of different languages.

2. Project. Every student is required to submit one written report ( not including

exams, tests, quizzes, or commented programs) and to make oral presentation.

Grading Policy: Two Midterm exams (%50) , final exam (%30), and assignments (%20)

Total points Final grade

---------------- ----------------

94 - 100 A

90 - 93.99 A-

87 - 89.99 B+

84 - 86.99 B

80 - 83.99 B-

77 - 79.99 C+

74 - 76.99 C

70 - 73.99 C-

67 - 69.99 D+

64 - 66.99 D

60 - 63.99 D-

below 60 F