Syllabus
Covered topics include but are not limited to:
Basic terminology, the tree of paradigms, and the three tribes of programmers
Procedural programming
Object-oriented programming
Functional programming
Logical programming
Symbolic/mathematical programming
Weird programming languages (a bonus topic about truly bizarre languages)
Annotation
Introductory courses for programming, also the one at our department, covers Python and thus procedural and possibly object-oriented programming. However, there are many other programming paradigms, i.e. approaches to writing a program, and a plethora of languages that are more or less suited for these paradigms.
The class discusses these paradigms and presents a bare minimum for these languages in order to familiarize the students with the many ways of programming. It covers at least the following approaches: object-oriented programming, logical programming and functional programming.