CS 341 - Principles of Programming Languages Syllabus

• Introduction to Scheme
  • REPL: Read-Eval-Print Loop
  • Operators and Operands
  • Identifiers, Whitespace, and Comments
  • Fundamental Types
  • Variables and Assignments
  • Pairs and Lists
  • Lambda Expressions
  • Control Constructs
  • Binding Constructs
  • Equivalence
  • More List Operators
  • Output
• High-Level Programming Language Learning
  • Basic Constructs
  • Common Idioms
  • Progression of Exercises
• Interpreter Programming
  • Lexical Analysis with Regular Expressions
  • Syntactic Analysis with Context Free Grammars
  • Abstract Versus Concrete Syntax Trees
  • Recursive Descent Parsing, Ambiguity, and Lookaheads
  • Interpretation via Recursive Parse Tree Traversal
• Programming Language Concepts
  • Variable Environments, Scoping, and Binding
  • Functional Closures
  • First-Class Objects
  • Reactive Frameworks, Events, and Event Handlers
  • Primitive and Compound Types
  • Static Versus Dynamic Typing
• Introduction to Python
• Introduction to Android Programming

Note: This syllabus is provided solely for review purposes and is subject to change.  It is not exhaustive and does not constitute a guarantee of what will or will not be covered in exams.