Programming Languages

G22.2130.01
Monday 7:00 - 9:00
Room 109, Warren Weaver Hall
Professor Edmond Schonberg
Room 412, Warren Weaver Hall

Instructor: Edmond Schonberg (schonberg@cs.nyu.edu)
Office hours: Monday 3:00 to 5:00 pm, and by appointment.

Teaching Assistant: Congchun He (congchun@cs.nyu.edu) Office hours: Tuesday 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Teaching Assistant: Deni Llambiri (llambiri@cs.nyu.edu) Office hours: Tuesday 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm.

Objectives

We will examine basic concepts underlying the design of modern programming languages: types, control structures, abstraction mechanisms, inheritance, concurrency, constructs for programming in the large, etc. This is not a programming course per se, but there will be programming assignments in several languages, imperative and functional.

Course Outline

Prerequisites

Undergraduate courses in data structures and algorithms, familiarity and programming experience with one of the following: C, C++, Ada, Java, or Pascal.

Course Work

Programming assignments, final examination.

Assignments

Assignment I

Assignment II
Solution (a)

Assignment III

Assignment V
Solution

Assignment VI

Assignment VII
Solution

Assignment VIII
Solution

Textbooks

required:

Ravi Sethi : Programming Languages, concepts and constructs , 2d Edition

John Barnes: Programming in Ada95

You must have some good text on C++ and on Java. For C++ the 3rd edition of Stroustrup: the C++ programming Language, is the standard reference. For Java, the language definition is given in: Gosling, Joy and Steele: the Java Language Specification. For both languages, there are several introductory texts by Horstmann that are very well-written, and innumerable others.

We will discuss functional languages, specifically Scheme and ML, for which there is abundant on-line documentation, and a good overview in the text by Sethi.

We will discuss scripting and so-called very high level languages, and focus on Python, There is abundant on-line documentation for it, and several programming texts and users guides from O'Reilly.

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