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2026-2027 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
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2026-2027 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog

CECS 342 - Principles of Programming Languages

(3 units)

Prerequisite: CECS 325  with a grade of “C” or better.
Fundamental topics in the design and implementation of programming languages. Programing language paradigms. Comparison of languages in type systems, data types, control flow, subroutines, concurrency, and exception handling.

Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture-problems 3 hours)