COS 350 Programming Languages

A survey of the significant features of existing and experimental programming languages with particular emphasis on grammars, syntax, semantics, notation, parsing, and storage arrangements. Selected examples of general purpose and special purpose languages are studied. Students will be exposed to different programming paradigms including: functional, logical, Object Oriented, Aspects, Generative, etc. This course requires a student laptop - see Department Laptop Policy. Prerequisite(s): COS 230 or permission of the instructor. 4 hour(s).