Arvind Bansal is a professor of computer science at Kent State University. A member of IEEE and ACM, he is an area editor of Tools with Artificial Intelligence . His research interests include the areas of concurrent logic programming, fault-tolerant agent-based systems, knowledge bases, program analysis, XML-based multimedia languages and systems, bioinformatics, biological computing, and proteomics. He received a PhD in computer science from Case Western Reserve University.

"… a great introductory text, providing essential knowledge in the field and enabling students to place in the appropriate context the programming concepts they learned in their introductory courses. … The author has cleverly placed an introduction to data structures commonly used by programming languages in the second chapter, minimizing prerequisites and enabling the book’s usage at the sophomore level. Theory has been kept to levels suitable for a general undergraduate population and is supported by a wealth of concise, well-illustrated examples. … Recommended."—CHOICE, August 2014

• Introduction. Background and Fundamental Concepts. Syntax and Semantics. Abstractions in Programs and Information Exchange. Implementation Model for Imperative Languages. Dynamic Memory Management. Type Theory. Concurrency Programming Paradigm. Functional Programming Paradigm. Logic Programming Paradigm. Object-Oriented Programming Paradigm. Web and Multimedia Programming Paradigms. Other Programming Paradigms. Scripting Languages. Conclusion and Future of Programming Languages. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.

Arvind Bansal is a professor of computer science at Kent State University. A member of IEEE and ACM, he is an area editor of Tools with Artificial Intelligence . His research interests include the areas of concurrent logic programming, fault-tolerant agent-based systems, knowledge bases, program analysis, XML-based multimedia languages and systems, bioinformatics, biological computing, and proteomics. He received a PhD in computer science from Case Western Reserve University.

"… a great introductory text, providing essential knowledge in the field and enabling students to place in the appropriate context the programming concepts they learned in their introductory courses. … The author has cleverly placed an introduction to data structures commonly used by programming languages in the second chapter, minimizing prerequisites and enabling the book’s usage at the sophomore level. Theory has been kept to levels suitable for a general undergraduate population and is supported by a wealth of concise, well-illustrated examples. … Recommended."—CHOICE, August 2014

• Introduction. Background and Fundamental Concepts. Syntax and Semantics. Abstractions in Programs and Information Exchange. Implementation Model for Imperative Languages. Dynamic Memory Management. Type Theory. Concurrency Programming Paradigm. Functional Programming Paradigm. Logic Programming Paradigm. Object-Oriented Programming Paradigm. Web and Multimedia Programming Paradigms. Other Programming Paradigms. Scripting Languages. Conclusion and Future of Programming Languages. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.

Arvind Bansal is a professor of computer science at Kent State University. A member of IEEE and ACM, he is an area editor of Tools with Artificial Intelligence . His research interests include the areas of concurrent logic programming, fault-tolerant agent-based systems, knowledge bases, program analysis, XML-based multimedia languages and systems, bioinformatics, biological computing, and proteomics. He received a PhD in computer science from Case Western Reserve University.

"… a great introductory text, providing essential knowledge in the field and enabling students to place in the appropriate context the programming concepts they learned in their introductory courses. … The author has cleverly placed an introduction to data structures commonly used by programming languages in the second chapter, minimizing prerequisites and enabling the book’s usage at the sophomore level. Theory has been kept to levels suitable for a general undergraduate population and is supported by a wealth of concise, well-illustrated examples. … Recommended."—CHOICE, August 2014

• Introduction. Background and Fundamental Concepts. Syntax and Semantics. Abstractions in Programs and Information Exchange. Implementation Model for Imperative Languages. Dynamic Memory Management. Type Theory. Concurrency Programming Paradigm. Functional Programming Paradigm. Logic Programming Paradigm. Object-Oriented Programming Paradigm. Web and Multimedia Programming Paradigms. Other Programming Paradigms. Scripting Languages. Conclusion and Future of Programming Languages. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.