1  Programming Languages

1. Definition and use
   
2. Evolution
   
3. Issues and perspective of the course
   

2  Syntax

1. Arithmetic Expressions
   
2. Evaluation Trees
   
3. Grammars
   
4. Parsing
   

3  Main Features of Programming Languages

1. Overall structure
   
2. Variables
   1. declarations - scope - lifetime - value - type
      
   2. concepts of bindings
      
   
   
3. Data Types
   1. builtin types
      
   2. user-defined types
      
   3. issues associated with types - typing mechanisms
      
   4. type inference
      
   
   
4. Control Structures
   1. statement-level control structures
      1. sequencing
         
      2. iteration
         
      3. selection
         
      
      
   2. unit-level control structures
      1. procedures
         
      2. parameter passing mechanisms
         
      3. block-structure
         
      4. exception handling mechanisms
         
      
      
   
   

4  Semantic Modeling (Notes)

1. Semantic Models
   1. contour model
      
   2. denotational model
      
   
   

5  Run-Time Support

1. Storage allocation
   1. variables
      
   2. stack-based allocation
      
   3. activation records
      
   4. display vectors
      
   5. heap
      
   
   

6  Object-Oriented Programming Languages

1. Classes and Objects
   
2. Templates
   
3. Polymorphism
   
4. Typing Issues
   
5. Dynamic Binding
   
6. Implementation of OO Languages
   

7  Other Paradigms (Concurrent, Functional, Logic)

1. Communication Processes Model
   
2. Ada Model
   
3. Lambda calculus (l-calculus -
   
4. Features of functional languages
   
5. LISP-like, ML
   
6. Features of logic programming
   
7. PROLOG