DD1362 Programming Paradigms
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Knowledge and skills in programming, 6 higher education credits, equivalent to completed course DD1337/DD1310/DD1311/DD1312/DD1314/DD1315/DD1316/DD1318/DD1321/DD1331/DD100N/ID1018.
Knowledge in basic computer science, 6 higher education credits, equivalent to completed course DD1338/DD1320/DD1321/DD1325/DD1327/DD2325/ID1020/ID1021.
Active participation in a course offering where the final examination is not yet reported in LADOK is considered equivalent to completion of the course.
Registering for a course is counted as active participation.
The term 'final examination' encompasses both the regular examination and the first re-examination.
Functional programming: the function concept, higher order functions, currying, evaluation strategies, streams, pattern matching, overloading, polymorphism, interpretation, lazy evaluation, types and classes.
Formal languages and syntax analysis: automata, regular expressions, grammars, lexical analysis, recursive descent, classes of languages
Internet programming.
Language translation: interpretation, compilation and linking.
After passing the course, the student should be able to:
- apply and explain general concepts in programming, in particular flow of control, recursion, interpretation, paradigms and models of computation
- apply and explain basic concepts in functional programming particularly clean functions, referential transparency, higher order functions, immutability, data types
- apply and explain basic concepts in formal languages and syntax analysis, in particular automata, regular expression, grammars, lexical analysis and recursive descent
- write own client-server programs as well as use protocols and be able to explain how they are interpreted and written
in order to
- obtain a broader perspective on programming
- be able to assess which paradigm and which programming language that is appropriate to solve a certain assignment
- be able to use adequate programming style in a chosen programming paradigm
- be able to participate in discussions about programming paradigms, history of programming languages, language definition, properties of type systems, principles of language design, language translation, programming principles and programming concepts actively
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