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CSci 145 - Programming languages

Price Jones and Staff

Credits: 3

Programming language and software design fundamentals, patterns and paradigms are studied as abstract concepts using the programming language Scheme. Students will also learn and write programs in at least one modern non-procedural programming language. Included are the notions of closures, procedure and data abstraction, object-oriented programming, procedural programming, declarative programming, continuations, compilation and interpretation, and syntactic extension. Advanced control structures appropriate for parallel programming. Prerequisite: CSci 143. (Spring)