1. Programming Languages & Translators (CE 359) Fall 2013 Prof. Dr: Ahmed El Nahass Lecture 1 1 FACULTY OF ENGINEERING COMPUTER ENGINEERING Prof.Dr Ahmed El Nahass fall2013 CE359

2. Course Objective Read a language specification, generate a lexer and parser for that language, and defend your design and implementation choices; Create intermediate code for a language; Implement a type checker and symbol tables; and, Implement simple interpreters/virtual machines. Prof.Dr Ahmed El Nahass fall2013 CE3592

3. Course Contents Introduction Regular Expressions Lexing: scanners, finite automata Parsing: grammars, top-down parsing, bottom-up parsing Abstract Syntax Trees Type checking Symbol tables Interpreters and Virtual Machines ◦ Executing ASTs ◦ Executing bytecode JIT compilers, binary translation Survey of domain-specific languages Programming Paradigms: functional, logic, scripting) Prof.Dr Ahmed El Nahass fall2013 CE3593

4. Instructor: Prof. Dr: Ahmed El Nahass ◦ Lectures: Thursday10:30  2:30 ◦ Office Hours:Thursday8:30  10:30 Teaching Assistance: Eng. Nehal Fathi ◦ Tutorial: Tuesday 2:30  4:00 ◦ Office: E621 4 Prof.Dr Ahmed El Nahass fall2013 CE359

5. Recommended Textbook: Michael L. Scott." Programming Language Pragmatics", 3 rd Ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 2009. Supplementary Reference: A.W. Appel, "Modern compiler implementation in Java", 2 nd Ed. http://patricklam.ca/plt Prof.Dr Ahmed El Nahass fall2013 CE3595