Programming Languages

Principles and Practice 2^nd Edition

by Kenneth C. Louden

Cengage Learning (formerly Thomson Learning) 2003

PLEASE NOTE: there is a new Third Edition of this text available!

This text is suitable for an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate course in the principles of programming languages. It is organized around principles and paradigms, rather than individual languages. Principles are reinforced with numerous examples from contemporary languages. There are individual chapters on functional, object-oriented, and logic languages, as well as history, design principles, parallel programming, and formal semantics.

If you would like a more detailed description of the book, please feel free to consult the

• Preface

• Table of Contents

Ordering information may be obtained from amazon.com.

Additional resources available for use with this text:

• A preprint version of Chapter 1 (in pdf format).

• Answers to selected exercises (in pdf format).

• A list of web resources for major languages used in the text (out of date, unfortunately).

• Code examples from the text:

  • In a single downloadable Windows zip file pl2e_code.zip
  • In a single downloadable Unix gzipped tar file pl2e_code.tar.gz
  • Individually viewable by chapter

• Instructor-only resources (password protected):

  • Additional answers to selected exercises (in pdf format)
  • Powerpoint slides by chapter (in a single zip file)
    (Not currently available: Chapters 13 and 14.)

  (Instructors: please email me for the password, with enough information so I can verify your status.)

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