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CS 345 - Programming Languages (55645)

Spring 2008

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1. Introduction and course logistics.   [PDF]
2. Programming paradigms.   [PDF]
3. Brief history of programming languages.   [PDF]
4. Lexical and syntactic analysis.   [PDF]
5. Imperative programming.   [PDF]
6. Introduction to ML.   [PDF] [OCaml examples]
7. Functions: parameter passing mechanisms.   [PDF]
8. Functions: scope, activation records.   [PDF]
9. Buffer overflow and stack smashing.   [PDF]
10. Types; overloading and polymorphism; type inference.   [PDF]
11. Garbage collection.   [PDF]
12. Exceptions.   [PDF]
13. Code analysis tools.   [PDF]
14. Concurrent programming.   [PDF]
15. Lambda-calculus.   [PDF]
16. Introduction to Scheme.   [PDF]
17. Introduction to JavaScript.   [PDF]
18. Security vulnerabilities in scripting languages.   [PDF]
19. Logic programming.   [PDF]
20. Modules and objects.   [PDF]
21. Introduction to Python.   [PDF]
22. Simula and Smalltalk.   [PDF]
23. C++.   [PDF]