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<b>COMPARATIVE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES<br /></b><br /><b>Course Description:</b><br />While most of the industry uses either procedural or object-oriented programming languages, there are entire families of other languages with certain strengths and weaknesses that make them attractive to a variety of problem domains. This course will introduce and discuss both the history and relevant features of both imperative and non-imperative programming languages. The course will cover topics such as syntax and semantics, essential concepts including data types, control structures, subprograms and advanced topics such as polymorphism, and object-oriented programming.  The course will explore both functional and logic programming as examples of non-imperative programming languages.  This course is a bit different from other courses within the curriculum in that it has no project assignments. Several of the units have non-graded exercises that provide hands-on exposure to some of the programming language concepts that will be studied within the course, however, the course is designed to be primarily a theory course.<br /><br /><b>Required Textbook and Materials:</b><br />Ben-Ari, M. (2006). Understanding programming languages. Weizman Institute of Science. This text is used with the permission of the author M. Ben-Ari.<br />Download textbook <a href="https://my.uopeople.edu/pluginfile.php/57436/mod_book/chapter/37622/understanding_programming_languages.pdf" rel="ugc nofollow">here</a><br /><br /><b>Learning Objectives and Outcomes:</b><br /><ul><li>    Recognize the various schools or paradigms of programming languages including imperative languages (procedural and scripting languages, data-oriented languages, object-oriented languages) and non-imperative languages (functional and logic programming).</li><li>    Define the principles and components of programming language design, such as control structures, names, and data types.</li><li>    Recognize elements of syntax and semantics for a language.</li><li>    Recognize strong vs. weak and static vs. dynamic typing in programming languages.</li><li>    State the basic requirements for effective programming language design.</li><li>    Identify the limitations of programming languages from within a historical perspective.</li><li>    Classify the programming constructs that appear in imperative, functional, and logic programming languages.</li></ul><b>Course Topics:</b><br /><ul><li>Unit 1– Introduction to Programming Languages</li><li>Unit 2- Elements of Programming Languages</li><li>Unit 3– Data Types</li><li>Unit 4– Control Structures and Subprograms</li><li>Unit 5– Object-Oriented Programming</li><li>Unit 6- Scripting Languages</li><li>Unit 7- Functional Programming</li><li>Unit 8- Logic Programming</li></ul><b>Software Requirements/Installation:<br /></b><br /><div><b>Unit 1:</b><br /></div><div>Turing Machine Simulator: http://morphett.info/turing/turing.html</div>Little Man Computer Simulator: http://www.yorku.ca/sychen/research/LMC/index.html (simulation of von Neumann architecture)<br /><br /><b>Unit 5:</b><br />Online Interpreter for Peal Scripts: http://codepad.org/<br />Online Interpreter for Python Scripts: http://codepad.org/<br />Online Interpreter for JavaScript: http://writecodeonline.com/javascript/<br />Online Regular expression tester: http://myregexp.com/signedJar.html<br /><br /><b>Unit 6:</b><br />Online interpreter for Java: http://ideone.com/<br /><br /><b>Unit 7:</b><br />Online interpreter for Haskell: http://ideone.com/<br /><br /><b>Unit 8:</b><br />Online interpreter for Prolog: http://ideone.com/