Course details

Programming Language Theory

TJD Acad. year 2021/2022 Winter semester

Current academic year

Types of programming languages: procedural and declarative, diferencies from the semantic point of view. The problem of the programming languages semantic formal definition. Various ways of the programming languages semantic formal definition. The axiomatic definition of the formal semantic: Floyd-Hoare logic. The denotation definition of the formal sematic: lambda calculus. The technology of the programming languages translation after a parsing. The solution of the context features of programming languages in the syntax-directed context-free compiler. Type systems. Target code generation. Methods of registes assignment. The target code generation for pipeline processors.

Doctoral state exam - topics:

  1. Types of programming languages: procedural and declarative, diferencies from the semantic point of view.
  2. The problem of the programming languages semantic formal definition. Various ways of the programming languages semantic formal definition.
  3. The axiomatic definition of the formal semantic: Floyd-Hoare logic.
  4. The denotation definition of the formal sematic: lambda calculus.
  5. The technology of the programming languages translation after a parsing.
  6. The solution of the context features of programming languages in the syntax-directed context-free compiler.
  7. Internal languages between front and backend of the compiler
  8. Type systems
  9. Target code generation. Methods of registes assignment.
  10. The target code generation for pipeline processors.

Guarantor

Course coordinator

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Completion

Examination (written+oral)

Time span

  • 39 hrs lectures

Assessment points

  • 100 pts final exam

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Lecturer

Instructor

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Subject specific learning outcomes and competences

The ability to define formally and th use the definition of the programming language semantic. To have an overview over the code generation for modern processors.

Learning objectives

To obtain wide knowledge especially of the semantic and translation of programming language.  To focus to possibility of a formal definition of the syntax and semantic of programming languages.

Study literature

  • Sethi R.: Programming Languages Concepts, Addison Wesley 1989
  • Nilson U. - Matuszynski J.: Logic, Programming and Prolog, John Wiley 1990
  • Nielson R.,H. - Nielson F.: Semantics with Applications - A Formal Introduction, John Wiley 1992
  • Aho, V. A. - Sethi, R. - Ullmann, J. D. : Compilers - Principles, Techniques, and Tools, Addison - Wesley Publishing Company 1987
  • Gordon, J., C.: Programming language Theory and its Implementation, Prentice Hall 1988
  • Reynolds, J.: Theories of Programming Languages, Cambridge University Press, 2009
  • Friedman, D.P., Wand, M.: Essentials of Programming Language, MIT Press, 2008.
  • Pierce, B.C.: Types and Programming Languages, MIT Press, 2002.

Syllabus of lectures

  1. Types of programming languages: procedural and declarative, diferencies from the semantic point of view.
  2. The problem of the programming languages semantic formal definition. Various ways of the programming languages semantic formal definition.
  3. The axiomatic definition of the formal semantic: Floyd-Hoare logic.
  4. The denotation definition of the formal sematic: lambda calculus.
  5. The technology of the programming languages translation after a parsing.
  6. The solution of the context features of programming languages in the syntax-directed context-free compiler.
  7. Type systems
  8. Target code generation. Methods of registes assignment.
  9. The target code generation for pipeline processors. 

Progress assessment

discussion on the doctoral lectures, To write an essay of some relevant topic.

Controlled instruction

Lectures only. In the case whn the course is opened as the consulted study discussions with the given literature.

Course inclusion in study plans

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