PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

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Three credit -hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Comparative study of programming paradigms including imperative, object-oriented, functional, logic, and concurrent programming with focus on main features produced by different languages for specific applications. Topics include formal specification of the syntactic structure of a language, context-free grammars, parsing, and principles of language design. In addition, students develop the crit ical thinking skills that allow them to apply the right set of tools to solve a specific problem and communicate the results.