To understand the factors in the major developments in programming languages.The major goals for a student taking this course are

• To understand the factors in the major developments in programming languages.
• To understand the purposes, goals, and strengths of various types of programming languages: functional, procedural, concurrent, logic, and object-oriented.

At the end of the course the student will be able to

• Explain the general evolution of programming languages.
• Describe program language syntax formally.
• Understand the fundamentals of lexical and syntax analysis.
• Describe, compare, and contrast the various types of programming languages.
• Describe the fundamentals of languages: types, expressions, control statements, subprograms, abstract data types.
• Describe the necessary qualities of programming languages that support exception handling, functional programming, object-oriented programming, logic programming, and concurrency.