3 ECTS credits
81 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1019890BNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.
• John Backus: FORTRAN (1957)
• John McCarthy: LISP (1958)
• John Backus, Peter Naur en Edsger Dijkstra: ALGOL (1958)
• Grace Hopper: FLOW-MATIC (1959)
• Martin Richards: BCPL (1966)
• Kristen Nygaard en Ole-Johan Dahl: Simula (1967)
• Alan Kay en Dan Ingals: Smalltalk (1971)
• Robert Kowalski: Prolog (1972)
• Robert Milner: ML (1973)
• Niklaus Wirth: Pascal (1974)
• Guy Steele en Gerald Sussman: Scheme (1975)
• DoD: ADA (1977)
• Barbara Liskov: Argus (1982)
• Bjarne Stroustrup: Cfront (1983)
• INMOS: OCCAM (1983)
• Ericsson: Erlang (1986)
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Programme Objectives
This course is intended to expose students to the evolution of computer languages from the early stages of computing (specifically 1954, with the introduction of FORTRAN) up to the introduction of Java (in the 90ies). The objective is that students can critically analyse and discuss a modern programming language of their own (guided) choice according to criteria distilled from this historical overview.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
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This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Computer Science: Default track (only offered in Dutch)