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ACM SIGPLAN Notices archive
Volume 43 , Issue 11 (November 2008) table of contents

COLUMN: White papers table of contents

Pages 119-123

Year of Publication: 2008

ISSN:0362-1340

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Peter Sestoft

IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This note describes and motivates our current plans for an undergraduate course on programming language concepts for software development students. We describe the competences we expect students to acquire as well as the topics covered by the course. We plan to use C# and Scheme as instruction languages, and will study the implementation of Java and C# with their underlying platforms, the Java Virtual Machine and .NET Common Language Runtime. We emphasize implementation exercises and experiments. This comes at the expense of classical compiler course subjects such as register allocation and optimization of imperative loop-intensive code.

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	1	John Biggs. Teaching for quality learning at university: what the student does. Open University Press, United Kingdom, second edition, 2003.
	2	Peter Sestoft. Programming language concepts. Draft lecture notes, version 0.34, February 2006. At http://www.itu.dk/people/sestoft/papers/plc-0.34-2up.pdf.
	3	Ralph W. Tyler. Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction. University of Chicago Press, 1949.