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Modern Programming Languages - A Practical Introduction (Paperback, Second Edition)
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Modern Programming Languages - A Practical Introduction (Paperback, Second Edition)
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This book introduces the concepts of diverse programming languages
for students who have already mastered basic programming in at
least one language. It is suitable for use in an undergraduate
course for computer science and computer engineering majors. It
treats all the knowledge units in the area of programming languages
that appear in the ACM's Computer Science Curriculum 2008, and
introduces the core units thoroughly. It gives programming
exercises in three different language paradigms. Philosophically,
it is in complete agreement with the ACM report. This book has two
distinct kinds of chapters: practical and theoretical. The
practical chapters are self-contained primers in three very
different programming languages - ML, Java, and Prolog - at least
two of which will be new languages for almost all students at this
level. Students receive a quick introduction to the linguistically
unique parts of each language and enough simple programming
exercises to develop a feel for the programming paradigm of the
language. There are excellent free implementations of all these
languages available on a variety of platforms, including Windows,
Unix, and Macintosh; the book's Web site at
http://www.webber-labs.com/mpl.html has instructions on how to get
them. The theoretical chapters present the underlying principles of
programming languages. They are interleaved with the practical
chapters in an order that allows ideas to be illustrated using
examples in the newly learned languages and allows theoretical
topics to be covered when their relevance to programming practice
will be most evident. For example, Chapter 23 deals with formal
semantics by starting with simple interpreters written in Prolog.
These interpreters lead naturally to language definitions using
big-step operational semantics. That is why formal semantics occurs
so late in the book: only at the end of the Prolog tutorial are
students ready to be led from Prolog exercises to this related,
abstract topic.
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