Programming Languages: An Active Learning Approach

✍ Scribed by Kent Lee (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 286
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Programming Languages: An Active Learning Approach introduces students to three programming paradigms: object-oriented/imperative languages using C++ and Ruby, functional languages using Standard ML, and logic programming using Prolog. This interactive textbook is intended to be used in and outside of class. Each chapter follows a pattern of presenting a topic followed by a practice exercise or exercises that encourage students to try what they have just read. This textbook is best-suited for students with a 2-3 course introduction to imperative programming.

Key Features:

• Accessible structure guides the student through various programming languages
• Seamlessly integrated practice exercises
• Classroom-tested
• Online support materials

Advance Praise for Lee’s Programming Languages: An Active Learning Approach

"The Programming Languages book market is overflowing with books, but none like this. In many ways, it is precisely the book I have been searching for to use in my own programming languages course. One of the main challenges I perpetually face is how to teach students to program in functional and logical languages, but also how to teach them about compilers. This book melds the two approaches very well."

-- David Musicant, Carleton College

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-11
Introduction....Pages 1-20
Specifying Syntax....Pages 1-26
Object-Oriented Programming with C++....Pages 1-44
Object-Oriented Programming with Ruby....Pages 1-26
Functional Programming in Standard ML....Pages 1-52
Language Implementation in Standard ML....Pages 1-34
Logic Programming....Pages 1-23
Formal Semantics....Pages 1-20
Back Matter....Pages 1-32

✦ Subjects

Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation; Logics and Meanings of Programs; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters