CMPS 4010

Survey of Programming Languages

Fall 2026

Documents:

• CMPS4010 Syllabus, Fall 2026 (1 and 2)

Office Hours:

Instructor: Dr. Kuo-pao Yang

Title: Professor

Office: CSTB 3019

Phone: (985) 549 - 5088

Email: kyang@selu.edu

Web: yangkuopao Faculty Page on Google Sites

YouTube: yangkuopao YouTube Channel

Office Hours: T, TH 01:45PM – 05:00PM, 06:15PM – 06:45PM; W(Online) 11:00AM – 12:15PM 

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:

• Wikipedia Fortran

• Using GNU Fortran (eBook by the Free Software Foundation, gfortran.pdf)

• Professional Programmer’s Guide to Fortran77 (eBook by Clive Page)

• FORTRAN 77 Reference

C Programming:

• C Programming (eBook from Wikibooks)

• C Language Tutorial (eBook by Gordon Dodrill)

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

• UNIX Tutorial

COBOL:

• Open COBOL Programmers Guide (eBook by Gary Cutler)

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

PHP Programming:

• PHP Manual (www.php.net)

• PHP Tutorial (www.w3schools.com)

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

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

• PHP and MySQL Web Development 5th Ed (eBook 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 (eBook by Wikibooks.org)