Comments on several years of teaching of modelling programming language concepts
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This paper describes an undergraduate course taught at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne titled Understanding Programming Languages. The main thrust of the course is to understand how language concepts can be modelled and explored using semantics. Specifically, structural operational semantics (SOS) is taught as a convenient and light-weight way of recording and experimenting with features of procedural programming languages. We outline the content, discuss the contentious issue of tool support and relate experiences. © 2006 University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Printed and published by the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Computing Science, Claremont Tower, Claremont Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, England. Bibliographical details COLEMAN, J. W., JEFFERSON, N. P., JONES, C. B.. Comments on several years of teaching of modelling programming language concepts [By] J. W. Coleman, N. P. Jefferson, C. B. Jones. Newcastle upon Tyne: University of Newcastle upon Tyne: Computing Science, 2006. (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Computing Science, Technical Report Series, No. CS-TR-978)
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