4CS6A PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES(Common to Computer Science and Engineering& Info. Tech) |
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| Units | Contents of the subjects |
| Programming Language: Definition, History, Features. Issues in Language Design: Structure and Operation of computer, Programming Paradigms. Efficiency, Regularity. Issues in Language Translation: Syntax and Semantics. | |
| Specifications and Implementation of Elementary and Structured Data Types. Type equivalence, checking and conversion. Vectors and Arrays, Lists, Structures, Sets, Files. | |
| Sequence control with Expressions, Conditional Statements, Loops, Exception handling. Subprogram definition and activation, simple and recursive subprogram, subprogram environment. | |
| Scope – Static and Dynamic, Block structures, Local Data and Shared Data, Parameters and Parameter Transmission. Local and Common Environments, Tasks and Shared Data. | |
| Abstract Data type, information hiding, encapsulation, type definition. Static and Stack-Based Storage management. Fixed and Variable size heap storage management, Garbage Collection. | |
Text/References:
1. Programming languages: design and implementation, Terrence W. Pratt., Pearson
2. Programming languages: concepts and constructs, Ravi Sethi, ISBN 9780201590654.
3. Programming Language Pragmatics, Scott, ELSEVIER