LEARNING OUTCOMES

• the course requires a good knowledge of imperative programming, and provides foundational notions on high-level programming and skills on theory and practice of programming paradigms, with emphasis on the functional and object-oriented ones.

• students will extend their skills acquired in the introductory courses on programming in the small, and
  learn to develop applications starting from informal requirements and use integrated development environments

   

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students will acquire the following skills:

• use of the basic concepts of the object-oriented paradigm for modeling data and programming in the small; development of Java programs structured modularly to favor code reuse.
• comprehension, correct use and implementation of common object-oriented design patterns 
• use of the basic concepts of the functional paradigm for programming in the small; development of OCaml programs based on the most common functional and generic programming techniques
• comprehension of the specification of a programming language and its underlying implementation issues

PREREQUISITES

Basic notions on imperative programming, algorithms and data types and structures.

TEACHING METHODS

Standard

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Principles of programming languages: overview, programming paradigms; syntax, static and dynamic semantics, development of a semantics-driven interpreter.
Object-oriented paradigm (the Java programming language): objects, classes, interfaces, inheritance and dynamic binding, casting, overloading, exceptions. Advanced features: generic classes and methods. Practical uses of the standard API, iterator and visitor design pattern. 
Functional paradigm (the OCaml programming language): higher-order and polymorphic functions, polymorphic type inference, currying, functions on lists, tail recursion, user-defined types.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

-Davide Ancona, Giovanni Lagorio, Elena Zucca. Linguaggi di Programmazione. Città Studi Edizioni.
-Ken Arnold, James Gosling, and David Holmes. The Java Programming Language, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall.
-Emmanuel Chailloux, Pascal Manoury, and Bruno Pagano. Developing Applications With Objective Caml.
-Josh Bloch. Effective Java (second edition). Prentice Hall.  (advanced, optional)
-Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Addison-Wesley. (advanced, optional)