Department of Physics

18201  Principles of Languages and Programming Techniques   

Course Webpage: https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/D410/ 

Course Content

Part A – Programming language Execution Internals-What are the limits and capabilities.

• Principles of Compilers. Syntax of Programming Languages, productions and syntax trees, BNF, eBNF.
• Basic data types and their representation. Principles of Arithmetic Analysis in float and doubles.
• Objects in Memory (static, stack and heap) and management
• Names, scopes and binding. 
• Control Flow.
• Subroutines and Parameter Passing

Part B- Programming Techniques-Best use of Programming Technology.

• Top Down and Structured Programming
• Programming Techniques
• Testing and Debugging
• Modularity, information hiding
• Genericity