Welcome

Concepts of Programming Languages - TH Rosenheim - WS 2025/2026

About me

• Sebastian Macke

Email: Sebastian.Macke@th-rosenheim.de
Studied Physics in Stuttgart
Living in Munich

• Lead Software Engineer at QAware

• Software Developer as a Hobby (Reverse Engineering, Simulations, Emulations, AI):

github.com/s-macke
simulationcorner.net

• AI enthusiast

Newsletter: www.linkedin.com/newsletters/qaware-ai-insights-7222227604580225024/

Who is QAware?

• qaware.de - Founded in 2005

• Medium-sized IT company - 230 Employees
• Custom Software development (Cloud Native, modernization, AI, ... ) for large enterprises (e.g. BMW, Allianz, Telekom, ...)
• Offices in Munich, Mainz, Rosenheim, Darmstadt and the whole world (remote work)

There are so many Languages ...

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What are concepts of programming languages?

• Syntax (Basic vocabulary, grammar)
• Semantics (The meaning of the program)
• Names (variabes, types, functions, classes, objects, but also scope, visibility, lifetime)
• Data Types (simple, structured)
• Flow control (for, if, ....)
• Functional programming (function as first class citizen)
• Object Oriented Programming
• Debugging
• Exception handling
• Concurrency handling
• Memory management

Goal of the Course

• Gain knowledge about the concepts of existing programming languages
• Looking beyond the horizon
• Increased ability to learn new languages
• Learn how Go differs from other languages conceptually
• Learn how to write professional code with Golang
• Gain skills to pick the right language for a given problem

Course Requirements

• The course is designed as a master course.
• Solid programming skills in at least one language are required.
• It is assumed that students have some skills in other programming languages.
• For most of the code examples, we will use Go (Golang) as language.

Lectures so far planned

Lecture 1 - About Overview Introduction
Lecture 2 - Introduction to Golang. Types Control Structures
Lecture 3 - Object Oriented Programming with Go
Lecture 4 - SWE-Agents, Large Language Models
Lecture 5 - Functional Programming
Lecture 6 - Pure Functional Programming with Haskell
Lecture 7 - Concurrent Programming
Lecture 8 - Flashlight Presentations of Languages
Lecture 9 - Distributed Programming
Lecture 10 - Logic Programming
Lecture 12 - (Cross Compiling with WebAssembly)
Lecture 13 - (Enterprise Programming)

Structure of this course

• Recap
• Lecture with (Student Discussions)
• Introduction to Exercises
• Exercises

Material

Learning Campus:

learning-campus.th-rosenheim.de/course/view.php?id=2993

Github: Sources, Slides (Go Present Tool)

https://github.com/s-macke/concepts-of-programming-languages

Discussion: What is your expectation of the lecture

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Semester Work

• See Learning Campus for details

Examples:

• Compare Go Object Oriented Programming with: Ada, Smalltalk, Pascal, Ruby, C++, Swift, Eiffel, Objective C, Modula, Lua, TypeScript, Fortran, Kotlin

• Compare Go Functional Programming with: Elixir, Haskell, Clojure, F#, Javascript

• Compare Go Concurrency with: C via OpenMP, C++, Fortran, Erlang, Python, Scala, D, Occam, CUDA

• Compare Go Systems Programming with: C / C++, Rust, Ada, D, Swift

• Compare Go Distributed Programming with: NodeJs / JavaScript, Java / Quarkus, Python, Kotlin

• Compare Go with: Typescript, Ruby, Python, Kotlin, Elm, Elixir, Crystal, C#

This lecture is not yet AI ready

• Companies will demand to use AI tools such as SWE-Agents in the future
• This lecture (as any other lecture) it not yet designed for this future
• This semester work at home might become too easy with AI tools
• ⮕ More weight on the presentation

Books

Donovan, Kernigham: The Go Programming Language

Sebesta: Concepts of Programming Languages

Watt: Programming Language Design Concepts

Thank you