Name of Subject  : PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE ( 4 IT 6.2)

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Contents

Programming Language: Definition, History, Features. Issue in Language Design: Structure and Operation of

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computer, Language Paradigms. Efficiency, Regularity. Issues in Language Translation: Syntax, Semantics,

Stages analysis and synthesis, Parse Tree, CFG and BNF grammar.

Specification and Implementation of Elementary and Structured Data Types. Type equivalence, checking and

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conversion. Array, List, Structure, Union.

Sequence control with Expressions, Conditional Statements, Loops, Exception handling. Subprogram definition

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and activation, simple and recursive subprogram, subprogram environment. Parameter passing mechanism.

Abstract Data type, information hiding, encapsulation, type definition. Static and Stack-Based Storage

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management. Fixed and Variable size heap storage management. Garbage Collection

Parallel Programming: Introduction, parallel processing and programming language, Threads, semaphore, monitor,

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Parallel Programming: Introduction, parallel processing and programming language, Threads, semaphore, monitor,