Programming language explorations. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ray Toal, Rachel Rivera, Alexander Schneider, Eileen Choe.
• Authors: Toal, Ray; Rivera, Rachel; Schneider, Alexander; Choe, Eileen
• Contents: Introduction ; WHY STUDY PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE ELEMENTS; EVALUATING PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES JavaScript; HELLO JAVASCRIPT; THE BASICS; CLOSURES; METHODS; PROTOTYPES; SCOPE; CALLBACKS AND PROMISES; JAVASCRIPT WRAP UP CoffeeScript; HELLO COFFEESCRIPT; THE BASICS; NO SHADOWING?!; COMPREHENSIONS; DESTRUCTURING; EXISTENTIAL OPERATORS; COFFEESCRIPT WRAP UP Lua; HELLO LUA; THE BASICS; SCOPE; TABLES; METATABLES; COROUTINES; LUA WRAP UP Python; HELLO PYTHON; THE BASICS; SCOPE; PARAMETER ASSOCIATION; SPECIAL METHODS; ITERATORS AND GENERATORS; DECORATORS; PYTHON WRAP UP Ruby; HELLO RUBY; THE BASICS; OBJECT ORIENTATION; Messaging; Encapsulation; Inheritance; Polymorphism; Singleton Classes; BLOCKS; MIXINS; ACCESS CONTROL; METAPROGRAMMING; RUBY WRAP UP Julia; HELLO JULIA; THE BASICS; TYPES; Abstract Types; Parametric Types; Sum and Product Types; Type Annotations; Covariance, Contravariance, and Invariance; MULTIPLE DISPATCH; METAPROGRAMMING; PARALLEL COMPUTING; JULIA WRAP UP Java; HELLO JAVA; THE BASICS; INTERFACES; STATIC TYPING; GENERICS; THREADS; METAPROGRAMMING; JAVA WRAP UP Clojure; HELLO CLOJURE; THE BASICS; NAMESPACES; PERSISTENT DATA STRUCTURES; TRANSIENTS; SOFTWARE TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY; AGENTS; THE EXPRESSION PROBLEM; MACROS; CLOJURE WRAP UP Elm; HELLO ELM; THE BASICS; TYPE INFERENCE; TAGGED UNIONS; RECORDS; EFFECTS; ELM WRAP UP Erlang; HELLO ERLANG; THE BASICS; MATCHING; MESSAGING; ERLANG WRAP UP; Go; HELLO GO; THE BASICS; POINTERS; SLICES; INTERFACES; PANICS; GOROUTINES; REFLECTION; GO WRAP UP Swift; HELLO SWIFT; THE BASICS; OPTIONALS; OPERATORS; PROTOCOLS; EXTENSIONS; SAFETY FEATURES; AUTOMATIC REFERENCE COUNTING; SWIFT WRAP UP Additional Languages; THE CLASSICS; SYSTEMS LANGUAGES; THE ENTERPRISE; SCRIPTING; THE ML FAMILY; CONCURRENCY MATTERS; THE WEB; CRYSTALLIZATIONS OF STYLE; ESOTERIC LANGUAGES; ASSEMBLY LANGUAGES Afterword; WHERE WE’VE BEEN; Functions; Types; Expressions; Control Flow; Concurrency; Modularity; Metaprogramming; WHERE TO GO NEXT Appendix A ■ Numbers; INTEGERS; FLOATING POINT NUMBERS; RATIOS AND DECIMALS Appendix B ■ Text; CHARACTERS, GLYPHS, AND GRAPHEME CLUSTERS; CHARACTER PROPERTIES; CHARACTER ENCODING
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 005.13; COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / General; Programming languages (Electronic computers); MATHEMATICS / General
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315314310; 1315314312
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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