433-361 Programming Languages Implementation

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

Computer Science 433-252, 433-253, and 433-254; and (Electrical Engineering 431-204 or Computer Science 433-251) (from 2000: Electrical Engineering 431-102)

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

The objective of this subject is for students: to be familiar with important concepts and techniques in programming language implementation; to develop a general appreciation of the constraints imposed on programming languages by implementation considerations; and to understand the basic ideas behind implementation of the programming language paradigms: imperative, object-oriented, functional and logic programming.

Topics covered include: Compilers and interpreters: compiler structures; intermediate representations of programs; global tables, run-time structures, lexical analysis, parsing, semantic analysis, code generation, optimisation.

Assessment

Project work (expected to take about 36 hours) during semester; and one written examination (not exceeding three hours) at the end of the semester. The project work must be completed satisfactorily to pass the subject. Weighting of assessment components will be advised at the commencement of the subject.