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CSIT-503 (C) - Principles of Programming Languages

CSIT · Semester 5

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Language evaluation criteria Influences on language design Language categories Programming paradigms: imperative, object-oriented, functional, and logic programming Programming language implementation: compilation and virtual machines Programming environments

Data types: introduction Primitive, character, and user-defined types Array, associative, record, union, pointer, and reference types Design and implementation issues related to these types Names and variables Concept of binding Type checking, strong typing, and type compatibility Named constants and variable initialization Sequence control with expressions Conditional statements and loops Exception handling

Fundamentals of subprograms Scope and lifetime of a variable Static and dynamic scope Design issues of subprograms and operations Local referencing environments Parameter passing methods Overloaded subprograms Generic subprograms Design issues for functions Overloaded operators Coroutines

Abstractions and encapsulation Introduction to data abstraction Static and stack-based storage management Heap-based storage management Garbage collection Object-oriented programming in Smalltalk, C++, Java, C#, PHP, and Perl Concurrency: subprogram-level concurrency Semaphores and monitors Message passing Java threads and C# threads

Exception handling Exceptions and exception propagation Exception handlers in C++ and Java Logic programming languages: introduction and overview Basic elements of Prolog Applications of logic programming Functional programming languages: introduction and fundamentals Introduction to 4GL