Session 1

Session 1

Saturday, 23 September 2017

Today is the first session of Programming Language Concept. For this course, LG01's lecturer is Miss Yanfi. At this session, miss Yanfi gave us introductions, informations and also rules for her class. Miss also gave us an assignment to make a blog. The content of the blog is the report of session 1 to 13.

For the starters, Miss told us about the point and grade system in her class.After that, miss started to explain about session 1's topics. At this first session, we learn many new things, such as :

1. Reason to learn programming language concept.
2. Programming domains.
3. Language evaluation criteria.
4. Influence on language design.
5. Language categories.
6. Implementation methods.

From this session, we also know that the most important criteria for evaluating programming languages are readability, writability, reliability, cost. 

The summary of this session is the study of programming language is valuable to increase our capacity to use different constructs, enable us to choose languages more intelligently, makes learning new languages easier.