CSE 340

Offered in:	Fall, Spring, and Summer
Credits:	3
Prerequisites:	CSE 310 , CSE 230

Principles of Programming Languages

Course Description: This course covers the formal syntactic and semantic descriptions, compilation and implementation issues, and theoretical foundations for several programming paradigms.

Course Objectives:

1. Students can understand the basics of recursive descent parsing.
2. Students can describe program execution using box and circle diagrams.
3. Students can understand static scoping
4. Students can understand parameter-passing mechanisms and their implementation.
5. Students can understand the advantage of object-oriented design and behavior.
6. Students can think functionally when creating functional programs.
7. Students can think declaratively when creating declarative programs.

Useful Tools

These are some of the tools that are useful for this course (contributions welcome!)

• ASU Linux Environment - Free CLI access to computers with Linux environment to compile and run code.
• Recorded Lectures by Previous Prof. - Lifesaver playlist by Prof. Adam Doupe.
• Compiler Explorer - Online compiler explorer to visualize assembly code generated by your C++ code.

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