Programming Language Explorations 1st Edition by Ray Toal (PDF)

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Programming Language Explorations is a tour of several modern programming languages in use today. The book teaches fundamental language concepts using a language-by-language approach. As each language is presented, the authors introduce new concepts as they appear, and revisit familiar ones, comparing their implementation with those from languages seen in prior chapters. The goal is to present and explain common theoretical concepts of language design and usage, illustrated in the context of practical language overviews.Twelve languages have been carefully chosen to illustrate a wide range of programming styles and paradigms. The book introduces each language with a common trio of example programs, and continues with a brief tour of its basic elements, type system, functional forms, scoping rules, concurrency patterns, and sometimes, metaprogramming facilities.Each language chapter ends with a summary, pointers to open source projects, references to materials for further study, and a collection of exercises, designed as further explorations. Following the twelve featured language chapters, the authors provide a brief tour of over two dozen additional languages, and a summary chapter bringing together many of the questions explored throughout the text.Targeted to both professionals and advanced college undergraduates looking to expand the range of languages and programming patterns they can apply in their work and studies, the book pays attention to modern programming practice, covers cutting-edge languages and patterns, and provides many runnable examples, all of which can be found in an online GitHub repository. The exploration style places this book between a tutorial and a reference, with a focus on the concepts and practices underlying programming language design and usage. Instructors looking for material to supplement a programming languages or software engineering course may find the approach unconventional, but hopefully, a lot more fun.

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⭐This book is the most thorough yet concise overview of programming languages I’ve come across so far. Each chapter is like a zip file of knowledge about a different programming language. Reading through the short paragraphs and working through the examples causes all sorts of crucial information about the language to be unpacked quickly and efficiently in my mind.I was tasked with writing some load testing scripts in Lua. I struggled through some online learning resources for a bit while writing a few test scripts. I then pulled this book out and started reading through the Lua chapter. Within 30 minutes, I had a solid grasp of language structure, available data structures, scoping rules, operators and their precedence, and some best practices that *immediately* improved my scripts (as well as my confidence in the results).Since the information isn’t buried in prose and the code examples are short and clear, it’s a quick but effective read. Attached is a screenshot of a great Lua code example that describes the language’s lexical scoping. Pretty much all the examples are at this level of quality – densely packed with just the right information to demonstrate the concept being discussed along with relevant edge cases. I find I have to review the examples a few times to really see everything that’s being shown. Once I do, though, I find I’ve learned key concepts in a way that I could describe them to others.

⭐One of the most important books about programming I’ve read. Not only does it show all sorts of programming languages and paradigms, it does it in a professional manner that underlines the importance of treating languages as tools. The book contains a great deal of references for further studies, complex examples that show the actual code you might write with the language (so no ‘hello world’ type of nonsense), but above all is a fascinating read and should be read by everyone in the industry! :>

⭐I am enjoying this book but the front cover is deliberately misleading. It shows 20 boxes with language logos in but only covers about a dozen of those.The languages covered in the book are: Javascript, Coffeescript, Lua, Python, Ruby, Julia, Java, Clojure, Elm, Erlang, Go, Swift.Each of those has a chapter dedicated to it. Those not covered at all or dealt with only minimally are: Rust, Haskell, C#, Scala, C, K, C++ and nasm. Rust, Scala and Haskell would be of specific interest to me.What content there is in the book merits four or five stars but, equally, somebody in the marketing and/or design department at the publishers merits a rap across the knuckles in my humble. Caveat emptor.

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