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CS2510: MODERN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (2019-2020)

Last modified: 25 Sep 2019 09:58


Course Overview

The course will touch on a wide variety of languages, both past and present, with an emphasis on imperative, functional, object oriented and logical paradigms.  Rather than dwell on the features of any particular language, we will focus instead on fundamental concepts, the key characteristics of successful language, the main features in programming languages, the different types of programming execution and patterns of problem-solving.

You will gain practical experience with each programming paradigm to choose between alternative ways and figure out how to do things in languages that don't support them explicitly.







Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 2
Term Second Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Professor Wamberto Vasconcelos
  • Dr Yaji Sripada

Qualification Prerequisites

  • Either Programme Level 1 or Programme Level 2

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)
  • One of CS1014 Foundations of Computing Science 1 (Passed) or CS1016 Foundations of Computing Science 1 (Passed) or CS1022 Computer Programming and Principles (Passed)
  • Either Programme Level 1 or Programme Level 2

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

  • Major programming paradigms including procedural, functional and logic.

  • Syntax and semantics of programming languages.
  • Imperative programming languages (including object-oriented).

  • Functional programming languages.

  • Logic programming languages.

  • Parallel programming languages.

  • Domain-specific and special-purpose programming languages.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

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Java Exercises

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Software & Report: Python/Java/Haskell

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Class Test

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Software and Report

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Formative Assessment

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Resit Assessments

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