1. Department of Computer Science Comparative Study of Imperative Programming Languages Vergelijkende studie van imperatieve programmeertalen

2. Study Programs  Master Informatics  Software engineering: deepening package  Secure software: deepening package  Master Applied Informatics  Software engineering: mandatory course  Master Computer Science  Mandatory course [2 nd year]

3. Practical Information  Schedule  1 st semester  Load  6 study points  Teaching staff  Lectures [12 sessions of 2.5 hours] o Eric Steegmans  Exercises [4 sessions of 2.5 hours] 3

4. Objectives  In-depth study of more advanced concepts of object-oriented languages  Single inheritance [3h]  Multiple inheritance [6h]  Pattern matching and regular expressions [6h]  Generic classes [6h]  First-class functions and closures [6h]  Concurrency [6h]  Introspection, reflection and meta-programming [6h]

5. Languages  Settled languages  C++, Eiffel, Smalltalk, Java and C# o Java serves as a reference language  Innovative languages  Scala, Ruby and D

6. Course Material  Copies of slides  New material is posted weekly on Toledo

7. Examination  Open-book examination  Partly oral and partly written o Question 1 [Take home] Implementation of a small hierarchy in some languages -A definition in Java is given as a start o Question 2 [written] A set of multiple-choice-like assignments  Limited in time o 1 st exam period