COSC 2P05 Course Outline

Instructor 1: Michael Winter, Office MCC J323, Office Hours: Mon 10:00am - noon, Wed 02:00pm - 04:00pm, email: mwinter@brocku.ca
Instructor 2: Alex Bailey, Office Hours: by email, email: abailey@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	Jan 06-10	1,2	Introduction, Evolution of programming languages
2	Jan 13-17	2	Evolution of programming languages
3	Jan 20-24	5, 6	Names, Bindings, Scope, Data types
4	Jan 27-31	6, 7	Data types, Expressions and assignments
5	Feb 03-07	8	Control structures (Midterm 1)
6	Feb 10-14	9, 10	Subprograms
7*	Feb 24-28	11	Abstract data type
8	Mar 03-07	12	Object-oriented languages
9	Mar 10-14	13	Concurrency (Midterm 2)
10	Mar 17-21	15	Functional programming languages
11	Mar 24-28	15, 16	Functional programming languages, Logic programming languages
12	Mar 31- Apr 04	16	Logic programming languages, Review

^* Feb 17-21 is Reading Week.

Texts

Sebesta, Robert W.: Concepts of Programming Languages (12th edition) Pearson, 2019, ISBN: 9780135102268
Book store link: Textbook COSC 2P05