Principles of Programming Languages
by Mira Balaban
Publisher: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 2017
Number of pages: 423
Description:
This course is about building computational processes. We need computational processes for computing functions, and for performing computational tasks. The means for performing computational processes are programs. The emphasis is on programming languages and their properties.
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