CP3100 - Formal Languages and Compilers

Credit points:	03
Year:	2005
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
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Compiler decomposition; lexical and syntactic elements of programming languages; lexical analysis; parsing methods; semantic analysis; intermediate forms; code generation.

Learning Outcomes

• integrate the implementations of compiler subtasks to create a fully functional compiler for a non-trivial programming language;
• perform an analysis of a programming language translation problem to obtain the information necessary for constructing an implementation of each problem-dependent subtask;
• understand the basics of the computer science theory underlying implementations of compiler subtasks;
• understand the conventional decomposition of a compilers task into subtasks and the interfaces between subtasks;
• understand which compiler subtasks can be solved independently of a particular translation problem and which are dependent on details of the translation being performed.

Prerequisites:	CP2001
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	CP5100

Availabilities
, , Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2005
Contact hours:	13 hours
Assessment:	(40% - 70%); (10% - 60%); (% - 50%).

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