An Experiential Introduction to Principles of Programming Languages

An Experiential Introduction to Principles of Programming Languages
ISBN-10
0262362430
ISBN-13
9780262362436
Category
Computers
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2022-05-03
Publisher
MIT Press
Author
Hridesh Rajan

Description

A textbook that uses a hands-on approach to teach principles of programming languages, with Java as the implementation language. This introductory textbook uses a hands-on approach to teach the principles of programming languages. Using Java as the implementation language, Rajan covers a range of emerging topics, including concurrency, Big Data, and event-driven programming. Students will learn to design, implement, analyze, and understand both domain-specific and general-purpose programming languages. • Develops basic concepts in languages, including means of computation, means of combination, and means of abstraction. • Examines imperative features such as references, concurrency features such as fork, and reactive features such as event handling. • Covers language features that express differing perspectives of thinking about computation, including those of logic programming and flow-based programming. • Presumes Java programming experience and understanding of object-oriented classes, inheritance, polymorphism, and static classes. • Each chapter corresponds with a working implementation of a small programming language allowing students to follow along.

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