Programming Language Syllabus.
Unit-1: Introduction: A brief history, Characteristics of a good programming language, Programming language translators compiler & interpreters , Elementary data types – data objects, variable & constants, data types, Specification & implementation of elementary data types, Declarations ,type checking & type conversions , Assignment & initialization, Numeric data types, enumerations, Booleans & characters. Syntax & Semantics : Introduction, general problem of describing syntax, formal method of describing syntax, attribute grammar dynamic semantic.