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CS 3723 Programming Languages Fall 2014 | |
Textbooks
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| Wagner Theory of Knowledge: Students are told they must understand a subject. There is no understanding. Successful students study their subject enough to become so familiar with it that they have the illusion of understanding. |
- Pretty much worthless (and expensive): Concepts of Programming Languages (10th Ed.), by Robert Sebesta (816 pages, 2012, $114.62). He's come out with a new edition roughly every 2 years for 20 years.
- Much too hard (and expensive): Programming Languages: Concepts and Constructs (2nd Ed.), by Ravi Sethi (624 pages, 1996, $133.95). Text is quite difficult to read.
- Many, many others:
- Amazon, search under "Programming Language Books" gives 14,373 results.
- google, same search yields 61,600,000 results.
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These can be very useful now and later in your career.
The main problem for this course is that they deliver too
much material (and they cost too much money).
Again I will supply online material and links.