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Course Outlines

Summer 2018 - CMPT 383 D100

Comparative Programming Languages (3)

Class Number: 6108

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    May 7 – Aug 3, 2018: Mon, 11:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

    May 7 – Aug 3, 2018: Wed, Fri, 11:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Exam Times + Location:

    Aug 12, 2018
    Sun, 3:30–6:30 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    CMPT 225, and (MACM 101 or (ENSC 251 and ENSC 252)).

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Various concepts and principles underlying the design and use of modern programming languages are considered in the context of procedural, object-oriented, functional and logic programming languages. Topics include data and control structuring constructs, facilities for modularity and data abstraction, polymorphism, syntax, and formal semantics.

COURSE DETAILS:

The objective of this course is to give the student a better understanding of non-imperative programming, and other important distinctions between languages. Various concepts and principles underlying the design and use of modern programming languages are considered. We will take a detailed look at a pure functional programming language, and a language that promotes concurrency.

Topics

  • Expressing algorithms functionally
  • Functional programming in Haskell
  • Type systems in programming languages
  • Compilers, interpretters, and runtime environments
  • Challenges and techniques in concurrent programming
  • Concurrent programming in Go

Grading

NOTES:

Weekly exercises 15%; assignments 35%; midterm exam 10%; final exam 40%.

Students must attain an overall passing grade on the weighted average of exams in the course in order to obtain a clear pass (C- or better).

Materials

RECOMMENDED READING:

Programming in Haskell,
Graham Hutton,
Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781316626221

Registrar Notes:

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