At the end of this course students will have gained knowledge of:
- Language Theory and Specification.
- Low level implementation of language mechanisms.
- Detailed knowledge of at least two object-oriented languages.
- Object models in different object-oriented languages.
- An introductory knowledge of concurrency.
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Non-object programming paradigms.

This course places programming into its correct theoretical context with the following topics:
- Elementary Language Theory and Specification
- A second object-oriented language
- Low level implementation of language mechanisms
-- pointers
-- activation records
-- method tables
-- memory allocation/de-allocation and garbage collection
-- process and thread activation and communication
- Parameter passing mechanisms
- A comparison of object models in different object-oriented languages.
- An introduction to advanced programming language features.
- An introduction to concurrency and inter-process communication.
- An introduction to non-object programming paradigms, eg.
-- list processing
-- functional languages
-- declarative languages.

COMP6200

Students may not gain credit for both COMP6200 and SENG6220.

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SENG6110 Introduction to Software Engineering 1 and SENG6120 Introduction to Software Engineering 2.

Internal Mode

Lecture
Workshop

Lecture: for 3 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Workshop: for 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term