Goals and Outcomes

Learn about the historical development of programming languages.
Study diﬀerent programming language paradigms, including imperative, object-oriented, functional, and logic.
Gain some experience in programming in diverse languages spanning the above paradigms.
Learn some aspects of implementing programming languages, such as scanning (tokenization), parsing, interpretation, compilation, and optimization.
Study underlying formalisms and methods, such as regular expressions and context-free languages.
Improve programming skills.
Improve communication skills, with particular emphasis on written communication and, further, well-written programs.