Course detail

Principles of Programming Languages (in English)

FIT-IPPeAcad. year: 2024/2025

The course offers basic classification of programming languages with more detailed explanation of imperative and declarative languages. Explaining imperative paradigm, it will be presented non-structured, structured (both block and modular), and object-oriented programming languages. A brief introduction into functional and logic programming will be studied during explanation of declarative paradigm. The underlying theories are discussed too. Students will be also given an introduction to processing (translation) of presented programming paradigms/languages.

Why is the course taught

IT students should understand the principles of program representation in run-time, what categories of programming languages are available, and what one can expect from a particular programming language. Moreover, a deeper understanding of processing and implementation of object-oriented paradigm and design patterns is necessary and required as an outcome, too.

Exam prerequisites

At the end of a semester, a student should have at least 50 % of all points that he or she could obtain during the semester; that means at least 20 points out of 40.
Plagiarism and not allowed cooperation will cause that involved students are not classified and disciplinary action can be initiated.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Dr. Ing. Dušan Kolář

Department

Department of Information Systems (UIFS)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Entry knowledge

Formal languages and their models (regular and context-free grammars, finite and pushdown automata); processing of formal languages such as analysis (parsers) and translation (compilers); basic programming skills.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

  • Mid-term exam, for which there is only one schedule and, thus, there is no possibility to have another trial - 20 points.
  • One project should be solved and delivered in a given date during a term - 20 points.

  • Mid-term exam - written form, a test, where answers are given in sentences (open questions), by selection of appropriate answer from offered ones, and by combination of both of these possibilities, no possibility to have a second/alternative trial. (20 points)
  • Projects realization - 1 project (program development according to a given specification) with appropriate documentation. (20 points)
  • Final exam - written form, a test, where answers are given in sentences, by selection of appropriate answer from offered ones, and by combination of both of these possibilities, 2 another corrections trials possible. (60 points)

Aims

To give an overview: of existing programming paradigms, of range of existing programming languages and their classification, and of requirements on programming language analysis and translation.
Students will be able to classify programming languages. They will be able to use a given programming paradigm on a certain level too. Moreover, basic analysis and compilation issues will be clarified as well.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Lecture notes in PDF file (EN)
Texty přednášek v elektronické podobě (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme IT-BC-1H Bachelor's

    specialization BCH , 0 year of study, summer semester, recommended course

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Zbyněk Křivka, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  • Introduction, definition of used terms
  • Imperative languages, non-structured programming languages
  • Block-structured programming languages
  • Modular languages
  • Object-oriented languages
  • Some specialties of object-oriented programming languages
  • Comparison of various kinds of imperative programming languages
  • Declarative languages, lambda calculus
  • Functional programming languages
  • Logical programming languages
  • Other declarative programming languages, their comparison
  • Main differences in usage and implementation of declarative and imperative programming languages
  • Conclusion, discussion of the follow-up courses

Project

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Zbyněk Křivka, Ph.D.

Syllabus

To implement a program for a given simple task in a scripting programming language.