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
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 53402
Section PR01
Size 45
Available 45
Class number 53401
Section PR02
Size 45
Available 45
Class number 53403
Section SE01
Size 90
Available 90
Class number 53405
Section TU01
Size 45
Available 45
Class number 53404
Section TU02
Size 45
Available 45
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