A course in programming languages for computer science majors

Abstract

Abstrac tThis paper presents my firs t experience in teaching third year compute r science majors a course entitled , "Principles of Programming Languages" a t the Chinese University of Hong Kong . Th e course has been aimed at teaching th e students to analyze and to evaluate a high-level programming language ; it als o enables the students to gain knowledge i n a wide spectrum of current programmin g languages . In this paper, th e preparation, the teaching materials, th e organization, and the actual running o f the course are described . Introductio n

Using current literature in two courses

“…Lee [13] describe s such a course where written assignment s were 10% of the grade . For many years now , we have used the mini-language approach t o this course based on the text by Marcott y and Ledgard [14] .…”