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Concepts of Programming Languages - TH Rosenheim - WS 2024/2025

About me:

• Lead Software Engineer at QAware (Munich, Mainz, Rosenheim)

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

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• Email: Sebastian.Macke@th-rosenheim.de

There are so many Languages ...

Miro Board: https://miro.com/app/board/.....

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

• Looking beyond the horizon
• Gain knowledge about the concepts of existing programming languages
• 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 5 - *Large Language Models*, Prompting, Copilot
Lecture 5 - Functional Programming
Lecture 6 - Pure Functional Programming With Haskell
Lecture 7 - Concurrent Programming
Lecture 8 - Distributed Programming
Lecture 9 - Cross Compiling with WebAssembly
Lecture 10 - Logic Programming
Lecture 11 - .....
Lecture .. - .... Summary ....

Structure of this course

• Recap
• Lecture
• 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

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#

Books

Donovan, Kernigham: The Go Programming Language

Sebesta: Concepts of Programming Languages

Watt: Programming Language Design Concepts

Thank you