IS 214

COURSE CODE: IS 214
COURSE TITLE: Principles of Programming Languages
PREREQUISITES: COI*
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Formal language theory, principles, and techniques of compiler construction, programming language, design concepts; parallelism, and formal semantics.

COURSE GOALS:

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Discuss, design, and implement programming language constructs.
• Evaluate the structure of a programming language specification and implementation.
• Analyze and solve problems related to lexical analysis and parsing.
• Recognize and compare the features of programming languages being used today.
• Write an interpreter for a simple programming language.

COURSE OUTLINE:

• Background Concepts
• Syntax and Semantics
• Primitive Data Types
• Composite Data Types
• Expressions
• Commands or Statements
• Procedures or Subprograms
• Referencing Environments