WCOMS4115-2: Programming Languages and Translators for Fall 2021

Days and Time

Fridays 1:10 PM-3:40 PM

Location

717 HAM

Allowed For:

  • Undergraduate
  • Masters
  • Professional
  • PhD

Prerequisites:

COMS W3137 or equivalent, W3261, and CSEE W3827, or permission of the instructor.

Notes:

None

Instructor:

Edwards, Stephen A.

Description

Modern programming languages and compiler design. Imperative, object-oriented, declarative, functional, and scripting languages. Language syntax, control structures, data types, procedures and parameters, binding, scope, run-time organization, and exception handling. Implementation of language translation tools including compilers and interpreters. Lexical, syntactic and semantic analysis; code generation; introduction to code optimization. Teams implement a language and its compiler.