Construction of CSC 402: Advanced Programming Methods

Abstract

The Computer Science class, CSC 402: Advanced Programming Methods is a class meant to expose students to C++, multi-paradigm design patterns, and distributed programming. Dr. Jeff Ward plans to incorporate functional programming as one of the programming paradigms of the Course. We compared three languages; Ocaml, Scala, and C++ to determine which would be in the best interest of the students of CSC 402 to be used as the language to learn functional programming. C++ was decided to be the optimal language choice due to its wide range of applications, jobs available, and advancements in functional programming.