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COMP 312 001 (CRN: 26533)

INTRO TO PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
Department: Computer Science
Instructor: Schreib, Rebecca
Meeting: 10:50AM - 12:05PM TR (13-JAN-2025 - 25-APR-2025) 
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
 
Restrictions:
Must have matriculated during one of the following Academic Year(s):
Fall 2023 - Spring 2024
Fall 2024 - Spring 2025
Prerequisites: COMP 222 AND COMP 215
Section Max Enrollment: 135
Section Enrolled: 0
Enrollment data as of: 14-NOV-2024 12:01PM
 
Additional Fees: None
 
Final Exam: Scheduled Final Exam-OTR Room
 
Description: This course explores the design landscape of programming languages and compilers, with the primary goal of giving students skills and knowledge that will help them as practitioners. After completing the course, students should be able to evaluate the tradeoffs between different programming languages, choose the language that is best-suited to a given task, write code using the functional programming paradigm, and learn new languages more quickly. Specific topics covered include lexical and syntactic analysis, type systems, variable scopes and bindings, control flow structures, and functional programming. Case studies from modern programming languages will be used to illustrate a range of abstractions and design choices.