Principles of Programming Languages

Programming Languages Application and Interpretation

This note covers the following topics: Parsing, Interpretation, Adding Functions to the Language, From Substitution to Environments, Functions, Mutation: Structures and Variables, Recursion and Cycles: Procedures and Data, Objects, Memory Management, Representation Decisions, Desugaring as a Language Feature, Control Operations, Checking Program Invariants Statically: Types, Checking Program Invariants Dynamically: Contracts, Alternate Application Semantics.

Author(s): Shriram Krishnamurthi

207 Pages

Programming Languages Theory and Practice

This note explains the following topics: Transition Systems, Defining a Language, A Functional Language, Control and Data Flow, Imperative Functional Programming, Cost Semantics and Parallelism, Data Structures and Abstraction, Lazy Evaluation, Dynamic Typing, Subtyping and Inheritance, Storage Management.

Author(s): Robert Harper

277 Pages

Programming Languages Lecture Notes

This note presents major features of programming languages, with primary emphasis on the role of particular language features in writing good software; programming language design alternatives; various programming paradigms embodied in languages, such as procedural, data-flow, functional and object-oriented languages.

Author(s): Clinton L. Jeffery

NA Pages

Foundations of Programming for High Performance Computing

This course note is an introduction to high performance computing (HPC) on modern desktop computer architectures. The targeted audience is undergraduate students who are not engaged in a computer science program but who want to be exposed to the principles HPC (relevant to desktop computers) and take advantage of them in their field of study.

Author(s): Marc MORENO MAZA

NA Pages