At the end of this course, students should be able to:
1. Understand the principles and techniques of automatic program generators.
2. Understand lexical analysis and implement a scanner for a simple language using a scanner generator.
3. Understand syntax analysis and implement a parser for a simple language using a parser generator.
4. Understand semantic analysis and implement an abstract syntax tree constructor for a simple language using a bottom-up translator generator.
5. Understand intermediate code generation and implement a pretty printer for a simple language using a recursive evaluator.
6. Understand code generation and implement a code generator for a simple language using a recursive evaluator.
7. Understand principles of functional, imperative, and logic programming languages.
8. Understand meta-circular interpreters, semantics (operational and denotational), type systems (polymorphism, inference, and abstract types), object oriented programming.

Programming language representation: concrete and abstract syntax, context free grammars. Use of lexer and parser generators. Implementation of expressions and statements in a simple language by postfix code and by simple machine code; simple optimizations. Procedures: value, name and reference parameters, local and non-local variables, static and dynamic binding. Abstract machines and storage management: activation records, static and dynamic chains, stacks and heaps.

At the end of this course, students should be able to:
1. Understand the principles and techniques of automatic program generators.
2. Understand lexical analysis and implement a scanner for a simple language using a scanner generator.
3. Understand syntax analysis and implement a parser for a simple language using a parser generator.
4. Understand semantic analysis and implement an abstract syntax tree constructor for a simple language using a bottom-up translator generator.
5. Understand intermediate code generation and implement a pretty printer for a simple language using a recursive evaluator.
6. Understand code generation and implement a code generator for a simple language using a recursive evaluator.
7. Understand principles of functional, imperative, and logic programming languages.
8. Understand meta-circular interpreters, semantics (operational and denotational), type systems (polymorphism, inference, and abstract types), object oriented programming.

Programming language representation: concrete and abstract syntax, context free grammars. Use of lexer and parser generators. Implementation of expressions and statements in a simple language by postfix code and by simple machine code; simple optimizations. Procedures: value, name and reference parameters, local and non-local variables, static and dynamic binding. Abstract machines and storage management: activation records, static and dynamic chains, stacks and heaps.

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