COSC 2P05 Course Outline

Michael Winter, Office MCC J323, Office Hours: Mon & Wed, 10:00am - noon, 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 03/08	1,2	Introduction, Evolution of programming languages
2	Sep 10/15	2	Evolution of programming languages
3	Sep 17/22	5, 6	Names, Bindings, Scope, Data types
4	Sep 24/29	6, 7	Data types, Expressions and assignments
5	Oct 01/06	8	Control structures (Midterm 1)
6*	Oct 08/20	9, 10	Subprograms
7	Oct 22/27	11	Abstract data type
8	Oct 29/Nov 03	12	Object-oriented languages
9	Nov 05/10	13	Concurrency (Midterm 2)
10	Nov 12/17	15	Functional programming languages
11	Nov 19/24	15, 16	Functional programming languages, Logic programming languages
12	Nov 26/Dec 01	16	Logic programming languages, Review

^* Oct 13-17 is Reading Week.

Texts

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