Course Coverage Assessment Report

About Learning Outcome and/or Topics (please use additional sheets if necessary)

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   Programming/Application domains;
   

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   Language implementation: lexical elements, syntax and semantics; Language implementation methods; structure of a compiler.
   

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   Language categories: Imperative languages; Functional languages; Logic programming languages; Object-oriented programming languages.
   

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   Fundamental semantic issues of variables in an imperative language:
   

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  Attribute of variables; issues of aliases; Binding and binding times for variable attributes; classification of variables into categories (according to their binding times).
  
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  Type checking, strong typing, and type compatibility rules.
  
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  Scoping rules for names: static and dynamic; Referencing environment of a statement.
  
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  Named constants and variable initialization techniques.
  

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   Data types: Primitive data types; character string types; user-defined ordinal types; array types; record types; union types; pointer and reference types.
   

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   Expressions and assignment statements: arithmetic expressions; operand evaluation order; type conversions; logical expressions; conditional expressions; assignment statements; compound assignments; conditional target; multiple assignments; mixed mode assignments.
   

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   Control structures: Two-way selection, one-way selection, and multiple-way selection structures, Counter-controlled loops, logically-controlled loops, user-located loop control mechanisms; Unconditional branching and guarded commands.
   

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   Subprograms: Fundamentals of subprograms; local referencing environments; Parameter-passing methods; Parameters that are subprogram names; Overloaded subprograms; Generic subprograms; User-defined overloaded operators; Coroutines.
   

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   Implementing subprograms: semantics of function call and return; side effects; and memory management.
   

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    Describing the elements of a programming language: Application with Java, PHP, JavaScript, C#, Objective C, Lua, . . ., etc.
    

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    Describing the lexical elements of a programming language
    

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  Lexical elements of a programming language: character set, tokens, comments, rules for grouping characters into words, white spaces.
  
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  Regular sets and regular expressions
  
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  Using regular expressions to specify the tokens of a programming language.
  
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  Language recognizers and scanners.
  

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    Describing the syntax of a programming language
    

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  Context Free Grammars (Bakus Naur Forms), Extended Bakus Naur Forms and derivations.
  
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  Errors in Context free grammars: useless symbols and ambiguous grammars
  
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  Operator precedence and associativity of operators.
  
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  Parsing strategies: top-down parsing and bottom-up parsing.
  
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  Recursive descent parsers.