CSCI 1990 — Topics:
This course surveys practical implementations and mechanisms underlying programming languages. Students learn the concepts and terminology of compiler components used to generate computer programs. This is a project based course that entails writing a simple compiler and/or interpreter. Major Content Areas - Topics include interpretation, compilation sequence and targets, language patterns, symbol tables, lexical analysis, semantic analysis and parsing, error handling, code generation, and optimization.
Prerequisites: CSCI 1130, CSCI 1120