Description:
This course balances the theory and practice, by applying theoretical principles within a software project. Topics: Formal language theory, regular expressions, finite state automata, Backus-Naur form grammars, formal and informal specification of semantics. Lexical analysis, parsing, scope analysis, type checking, and code generation. Issues of programming language design. Following an attribute grammar specification, students implement a compiler for an object-oriented language.

Option for major/minor:
Computer Science Minor