Course overview
The course aims to prepare learners with the theoretical knowledge and concepts underpinning programming languages, and to grow practical skills for developing software for translation and execution of programming languages. Based on the understanding and skills of software development, the course will build knowledge on theoretical framework of programming language, including language types, syntax, grammar, and automata. Building upon the theoretical knowledge, learners will develop skills for writing software to process, translate, and execute programming languages.
- Language Theory
- Automata Theory
- Language Processing
Course learning outcomes
- Compare language types and formulate the grammars and expressions of a language
- Analyse the behaviour of finite state machines, pushdown automata, and Turing machines
- Create computational models for processing languages using finite state machines and automata
- Implement token recognisers and parsers based on language models
Degree list
The following degrees include this course