UNSW Handbook Course - Concepts of Programming Languages

Concepts of Programming Languages - COMP9161


	Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
	School: School of Computer Science and Engineering
	Contact: Keller,Gabriele Cornelia
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: COMP9024 or enrolment in MIT program 8684. Excluded: COMP3161
	Offered: Session One
	Fee Band: 2

Description

Programming language paradigms: imperative, object oriented, declarative (i.e., functional and logic). Theoretical foundations of programming languages: syntax, operatational, axiomatic and denotational semantics. Implementation aspects of central language features, such as dynamic and strong typing, polymorphism, overloading and automatic memory management. Abstracting over programming languages and architectures: byte code approach, component software.

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