CMPS 4010

Survey of Programming Languages

Fall 2025

Documents:

• CMPS4010 Syllabus, Fall 2025 (1 and 2)

Office Hours:

Instructor: Dr. Kuo-pao Yang

Title: Professor

Office: CSTB 3019

Phone: (985) 549 - 5088

Email: kyang@selu.edu

Web: https://sites.google.com/selu.edu/yangkuopao

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/yangkuopao

Office Hours: T, TH 01:45PM – 03:30PM, 06:15PM – 06:45PM

     W(Online) 12:00PM – 02:00PM

Resources:

Class Notes:

• Chapter 01: Preliminaries

• Chapter 02: Evolution of the Major Programming Languages

• Chapter 03: Describing Syntax and Semantics

• Chapter 04: Lexical and Syntax Analysis

• Chapter 05: Names, Bindings, and Scopes

• Chapter 06: Data Types

• Chapter 07: Expressions and Assignment Statements

• Chapter 08: Statement-Level Control Structures

• Chapter 09: Subprograms

• Chapter 10: Implementing Subprograms

UNIX Tutorials:

• UNIX Tutorial for Beginners

• UNIX Tutorial

FORTRAN:

• Using GNU Fortran (gfortran.pdf)

• Professional Programmer’s Guide to Fortran77 (book by Clive Page, prof77.pdf)

• Fortran 90 Standard (ISO/IEC 1539 : 1991, N692.pdf)

• FORTRAN 77 Reference

• Fortran 90 Tutorial

• Google Fortran 95 Handbook

• Wikipedia Fortran 95 language features

C Programming:

• C Programming (book from Wikibooks)

• C Language Tutorial (book by Gordon Dodrill)

• The C Programming Language 2nd Ed (book by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie)

• UNIX Tutorial

COBOL:

• Open COBOL Programmers Guide (ebook in pdf)

• Teach Yourself COBOL in 21 Days (book by Mo Budlong)

• COBOL Tutorial

PHP Programming:

• PHP Manual (www.php.net)

• PHP Tutorial (www.w3schools.com)

• Learn PHP 8 Using MySQL, JavaScript, CSS3, and HTML5 2nd Ed (book by Prettyman)

• Beginning PHP And Postgre SQL 8 (book by Gilmore & Treat)

• PHP and MySQL Web Development 5th Ed (book by Welling & Thomson)

• HTML Tutorial (www.w3schools)

JavaScript Programming:

• JavaScript Tutorial (w3schools)        

• JavaScript Tutorial (echoecho.com)

Python Programming:

• Python_Programming_Language  (wikipedia.org)

• The Python Tutorial (python.org)

• Learn Python The Hard Way: Book (learnpythonthehardway.org)

• Python Programming (book by Wikibooks.org)