This course teaches the principles of functional, imperative, and logic programming languages. Topics covered include: meta-circular interpreters, semantics (operational and denotational), type systems (polymorphism, inference, and abstract types), object oriented programming. The course involves substantial programming assignments and problem sets as well as a significant amount of reading. The course uses the Java, C++, or C# programming languages for its assignments.

Python程式語言是一種物件導向、直譯式電腦程式語言。它包含了一組完善而且容易理解的標準庫，能夠輕鬆完成很多常見的任務。Python具有跨平台的特性，許多網頁程式或是系統管理都是透過Python來完成。Python同時也是Google愛用的程式語言，像是Google的搜尋引擎初期就是利用Python建構完成的。本學期會以基本的程式邏輯開始進行，再藉由Python的語法來進行實作。

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