Introduction to Programming Languages

Introduction to Programming Languages is designed to formalize and consolidate the knowledge of programming languages gained in the introductory courses a computer science curriculum and to provide a base for further studies in the semantics and translation of programming languages.

This book is intended as an undergraduate text in the theory of programming languages. To gain maximum benefit from the text, the reader should be familiar with discrete mathematics, basic data structures, abstract data types, recursive algorithms, assembly level machine organization and fundamental problem solving concepts.

Computer science is not a spectator sport. To gain maximum benefit from the text, the reader should construct programs in each of the paradigms, write semantic specifications; and implement a small programming language.