CS 152
Abstractions and Paradigms for Programming Spring 2014



Slot 4 LCC12   
Monday 11:35
Tuesday 8:30
Thursday 9:30

Lab Slot: CS154 Monday 2-5 New Software Lab


Course Content

Review of the program development process,
Issues in program design,
Structured programming,
Data and control abstractions,
Programming with assertions.
Reasoning about programs and proving correctness of programs.
Ideas behind imperative,
                     applicative,
                     object oriented and
                     logic programming paradigms such as
        typing,
        expressions,
        pure functions,
        recursion,
        higher order functions,
        encapsulation,
        inheritance,
        goal satisfaction,
        backtracking,
        unification.
Some of the ideas behind the implementation of the paradigms.

Course to be centered around problems and applications that demonstrate the main themes.


Books

Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman and July Sussman,
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2nd edition, The MIT Press, 1996.

David A. Watt, Programming Language Concepts and Paradigms, Prentice-Hall, 1990.

Rajeev Sangal, Programming Paradigms in Lisp, McGraw Hill, 1991.


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