OOP, functional, procedural paradigms, language design, and interpreters
← Back to Computer ScienceUnderstand the basic concepts, history, and classification of programming languages.
Learn formal methods for describing and analyzing programming language syntax.
Master the procedural paradigm with functions, procedures, and structured programming.
Explore OOP principles including encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.
Learn the functional paradigm with immutability, higher-order functions, and recursion.
Understand type systems, type checking, and data type design principles.
Learn how programming languages handle memory allocation and deallocation.
Understand variable scope, binding, and name resolution in programming languages.
Master various control flow mechanisms and their implementation across languages.
Build interpreters to understand how programming languages are executed.
Learn how high-level code is translated into executable machine code.
Explore language features for concurrent and parallel programming.
Understand declarative programming through logic and constraint-based approaches.
Learn the principles and trade-offs involved in designing programming languages.
Explore cutting-edge language features and future programming paradigms.
Understand the basic concepts, history, and classification of programming languages.
Learn the definition and purpose of programming languages as formal notation systems for expressing computation.
Trace the development of programming languages from machine code to modern high-level languages.
Compare ahead-of-time compilation with runtime interpretation and their performance trade-offs.
Distinguish between language syntax (form) and semantics (meaning) in program specification.
Survey major programming paradigms including imperative, declarative, and hybrid approaches.
Understand the abstraction spectrum from assembly language to domain-specific languages.
Explore specialized languages designed for specific problem domains and their advantages.
Learn fundamental principles that guide programming language design and implementation decisions.
Learn formal methods for describing and analyzing programming language syntax.
Master formal grammar notation for specifying programming language syntax rules and structure.
Use BNF notation to precisely define language syntax with production rules and non-terminals.
Apply EBNF extensions for more concise grammar specifications with repetition and optionality.
Construct parse trees to represent the syntactic structure of programs according to grammar rules.
Identify and resolve grammar ambiguities that can lead to multiple valid parse interpretations.
Handle operator precedence and associativity rules to resolve expression parsing ambiguities.
Understand tokenization and lexical analysis as the first phase of language processing.
Implement robust error detection and recovery mechanisms in language processors.
Master the procedural paradigm with functions, procedures, and structured programming.
Understand the core concepts of procedural programming including top-down design and modularity.
Design reusable code units with proper parameter interfaces and return value mechanisms.
Master call-by-value, call-by-reference, and call-by-name parameter passing strategies.
Manage variable visibility and lifetime through proper scoping and namespace design.
Compare recursive and iterative approaches to problem solving with performance considerations.
Apply structured programming principles to eliminate goto statements and improve code clarity.
Organize code into logical modules with well-defined interfaces and information hiding.
Explore C as the quintessential procedural language with systems programming capabilities.