Seminar

Features of Programming Languages

Lecturer

• Prof. Dr.-Ing Ina Schaefer

Assistants

• Tobias Runge, M.Sc.
• Tabea Bordis, M.Sc.

Credits
Depends on the major and your exam regulations, one CP = 30h of work.

Audience
Bachelor and master students studying computer science, business informatics or IST who are interested in scientific work.

Registration
Use StudIP to register yourself for the seminar. We have limited our capacities to a maximum of 10 attendees!

Grading
For a successful participation, the following tasks have to be fulfilled:

• Written paper about your topic (Bachelor: 6-8 pages + max. 2 pages bibliography, Master: 8-10 pages + max. 2 pages bibliography; both in ACM double column style).
• Bachelor: 20 minutes talk about your topic and 5 minutes discussion. Master: 25 minutes talk about your topic and 5 minutes discussion.
• Review of two other papers + 10 minutes presentation (2 x 5min)
• Mandatory participation of all events.

Content

Please see german content.

Topics

The following topics are available:

1. Mehrfachvererbung (Perl, Oberon)
2. Lambda (Haskell, Kotlin)
3. Reflection (Go, Ruby)
4. Contracts (Eiffel, Spec#)
5. Dynamic Method Dispatch (Java, Julia)
6. Type Casting (Delphi, C)
7. Static Type Systems (Ada, D)
8. Dynamic Type Systems (JavaScript, Python)
9. Dependant Types (Gallina)
10. Generics (Swift, Rust)
11. Garbage Collector (Lisp, Smalltalk)
12. Delegate (C#)

Learning objectives and achievable skills

The following skills are achieved in this course:

• An organized approach to search, read and understand scientific literature.
• A structured prepearation of the achieved insights.
• Communication of the achieved results in a talk given in front of the other participants.
• Personal scheduling of tasks.