Course Number
CMPSC 162
Internal Course Number
162
Level
Undergraduate
Units
4
Faculty
Course Description
Prerequisite: Computer Science 130A and 138; open to computer science and computer engineering majors only.
Concepts of programming languages: scopes, parameter passing, storage management; control flow, exception handling; encapsulation and modularization mechanisms; reusability through genericity and inheritance; type systems; programming paradigms (imperative, object-oriented, functional, and others). Emerging programming languages and their development infrastructures.