Concepts of Programming Languages

Name: Concepts of Programming Languages
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ISBN: 9780131395312

ISBN-10: 0131395319

ISBN-13: 9780131395312

Edition: 10th 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Robert W. Sebesta

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For undergraduate students in Computer Science and Computer Programming courses.Now in its Tenth Edition, Concepts of Programming Languages introduces students to the main constructs of contemporary programming languages and provides the tools needed to critically evaluate existing and future programming languages. Readers gain a solid foundation for understanding the fundamental concepts of programming languages through the author's presentation of design issues for various language constructs, the examination of the design choices for these constructs in some of the most common languages, and critical comparison of the design alternatives. In addition, Sebesta strives to prepare the…

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List price: $163.40
Edition: 10th
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Publication date: 1/6/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 816
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.684

Dr. Robert W. Sebesta is an Associate Professor Emeritus of computer science at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He received his PhD in computer science from Pennsylvania State University. His professional interests are the design and evaluation of programming languages, compiler design, and software-testing methods and tools. He is the author of Concepts of Programming Languages 9e.




Preliminaries



Reasons for Studying Concepts of Programming Languages



Programming Domains



Language Evaluation Criteria



Influences on Language Design



Language Categories



Language Design Trade-Offs



Implementation Methods



Programming Environments


Summary


Review Questions


Problem Set



Evolution of the Major Programming Languages



Zuse's Plankalkï¿½l



Pseudocodes



The IBM 704 and Fortran



Functional Programming: LISP



The First Step Toward Sophistication: ALGOL 60



Computerizing Business Records: COBOL



The Beginnings of Timesharing: BASIC


interview: Alan Cooper-User Design and Language Design



Everything for Everybody: PL/I



Two Early Dynamic Languages: APL and SNOBOL



The Beginnings of Data Abstraction: SIMULA 67



Orthogonal Design: ALGOL 68



Some Early Descendants of the ALGOLs



Programming Based on Logic: Prolog



History's Largest Design Effort: Ada



Object-Oriented Programming: Smalltalk



Combining Imperative and Object-Oriented Features: C++



An Imperative-Based Object-Oriented Language: Java



Scripting Languages



The Flagship .NET Language: C#



Markup/Programming Hybrid Languages


Summary


Bibliographic Notes


Review Questions


Problem Set


Programming Exercises



Describing Syntax and Semantics



Introduction



The General Problem of Describing Syntax



Formal Methods of Describing Syntax



Attribute Grammars


History Note



Describing the Meanings of Programs: Dynamic Semantics


History Note


Summary


Bibliographic Notes


Review Questions


Problem Set



Lexical and Syntax Analysis



Introduction



Lexical Analysis



The Parsing Problem



Recursive-Descent Parsing



Bottom-Up Parsing


Summary


Review Questions


Problem Set


Programming Exercises



Names, Bindings, and Scopes



Introduction



Names


History Note



Variables



The Concept of Binding



Scope



Scope and Lifetime



Referencing Environments



Named Constants


Summary


Review Questions


Problem Set


Programming Exercises



Data Types



Introduction



Primitive Data Types



Character String Types


History Note



User-Defined Ordinal Types



Array Types


History Note


History Note



Associative Arrays


interview: Roberto Ierusalimschy-Lua



Record Types



Tuple Types



List Types



Union Types



Pointer and Reference Types


History Note



Type Checking



Strong Typing



Type Equivalence



Theory and Data Types


Summary


Bibliographic Notes


Review Questions


Problem Set


Programming Exercises



Expressions and Assignment Statements



Introduction



Arithmetic Expressions



Overloaded Operators



Type Conversions


History Note



Relational and Boolean Expressions


History Note



Short-Circuit Evaluation



Assignment Statements


History Note



Mixed-Mode Assignment


Summary


Review Questions


Problem Set


Programming Exercises



Statement-Level Control Structures



Introduction



Selection Statements



Iterative Statements



Unconditional Branching


History Note



Guarded Commands



Conclusions


Summary


Review Questions


Problem Set


Programming Exercises



Subprograms



Introduction



Fundamentals of Subprograms



Design Issues for Subprograms



Local Referencing Environments



Parameter-Passing Methods


History Note


History Note



Parameters That Are Subprograms



Calling Subprograms Indirectly


History Note



Overloaded Subprograms



Generic Subprograms



Design Issues for Functions



User-Defined Overloaded Operators



Closures



Coroutines


Summary


Review Questions


Problem Set


Programming Exercises



Implementing Subprograms



The General Semantics of Calls and Returns



Implementing "Simple" Subprograms



Implementing Subprograms with Stack-Dynamic Local Variables



Nested Subprograms



Blocks



Implementing Dynamic Scoping


Summary


Review Questions


Problem Set


Programming Exercises



Abstract Data Types and Encapsulation Constructs



The Concept of Abstraction



Introduction to Data Abstraction



Design Issues for Abstract Data Types



Language Examples


interview: Bjarne Stroustrup-C++: Its Birth, Its Ubiquitousness, and Common Criticisms



Parameterized Abstract Data Types



Encapsulation Constructs



Naming Encapsulations


Summary


Review Questions


Problem Set


Programming Exercises



Support for Object-Oriented Programming



Introduction



Object-Oriented Programming



Design Issues for Object-Oriented Languages



Support for Object-Oriented Programming in Smalltalk


interview: Bjarne Stroustrup-On Paradigms and Better Programming



Support for Object-Oriented Programming in C++



Support for Object-Oriented Programming in Objective-C



Support for Object-Oriented Programming in Java



Support for Object-Oriented Programming in C#



Support for Object-Oriented Programming in Ada 95



Support for Object-Oriented Programming in Ruby



Implementation of Object-Oriented Constructs


Summary


Review Questions


Problem Set


Programming Exercises



Concurrency



Introduction



Introduction to Subprogram-Level Concurrency



Semaphores



Monitors



Message Passing



Ada Support for Concurrency



Java Threads



C# Threads



Concurrency in Functional Languages



Statement-Level Concurrency


Summary


Bibliographic Notes


Review Questions


Problem Set


Programming Exercises



Exception Handling and Event Handling



Introduction to Exception Handling


History Note



Exception Handling in Ada



Exception Handling in C++



Exception Handling in Java



Introduction to Event Handling



Event Handling with Java



Event Handling in C#


Summary


Bibliographic Notes


Review Questions


Problem Set


Programming Exercises



Functional Programming Languages



Introduction



Mathematical Functions



Fundamentals of Functional Programming Languages



The First Functional Programming Language: LISP



An Introduction to Scheme



Common LISP



ML



Haskell



F#



Support for Functional Programming in Primarily Imperative Languages



A Comparison of Functional and Imperative Languages


Summary


Bibliographic Notes


Review Questions


Problem Set


Programming Exercises



Logic Programming Languages



Introduction



A Brief Introduction to Predicate Calculus



Predicate Calculus and Proving Theorems



An Overview of Logic Programming



The Origins of Prolog



The Basic Elements of Prolog



Deficiencies of Prolog



Applications of Logic Programming


Summary


Bibliographic Notes


Review Questions


Problem Set


Programming Exercises