Scripting Languages

Lecturer:

Jan Žďárek (gar.)

Tutor:

Jan Žďárek (gar.)

Supervisor:

Department of Computer Systems

Synopsis:

Students gain a general overview of available scripting languages used for scripting. In addition, they gain a deeper insight into one particular scripting language.

Requirements:

Students should have basic overview of operating systems and technologies used in the web environment.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Fundamental concepts.

2. Overview of existing scripting languages, history.

3. Regular expressions.

4. Object-oriented features of scripting languages.

5. Unix scripting: shell, awk.

6. Scripting languages for the web: PHP, JavaScript.

7. Universal scripting languages.

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Introduction, regular expressions.

2. Unix scripting: bash, awk.

3. Scripting on the Web.

4. Basic features of Python.

5. Object-oriented features of Python.

Study Objective:

In their future professional life, students are likely to encounter several scripting languages. Students get a good overview of several scripting languages and master one of them.

Study materials:

1. Scott, M. L. ''Programming Language Pragmatics''. Morgan Kaufmann, 2005. 912 s. ISBN 978-0-12-633951-2.

Note:

Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Information Technologies (Presented in English) (compulsory course of the specialization)
• Informatics (Presented in English) (VO)