Professor Roger Kraft
Office: Classroom Office Building, Room 368
Office phone: (219) 989-2696
Office hours: 2:00--4:00 TR, and by appointment.
E-mail: rlkraft@pnw.edu
This course is an introduction to the "theory" of programming languages. We will look at how programming language syntax is specified, how a programming language's semantics can be described, and how a programming language can be implemented using an interpreter or a compiler. We will consider various types of programming languages, like imperative, applicative (i.e., functional), and object oriented languages. We will study ideas common to all programming languages, like variable scope, data types, control flow, and procedure abstraction.