The exam
is oral and without preparation. Each student will have a 20-minute session.
The student will draw a question and give a short presentation about the subject
in the first part of the session, max 10 minutes. In the second part of the
session there will be a discussion between the student, lecturer and examiner.
Many
subjects are rather broad, so it is your responsibility to select parts of the
subject that you consider to be most relevant.
For each
question there will be a set of slides available that you can choose to use for
your presentation and subsequent discussion – note you do not need to use all
the available slides.
Follow the
links below for the set of slides associated with each question.
Note: You
may choose to have your examination in Danish or English – just let us know which
language at the beginning of the session.
Watt &
Brown, chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Pratt and
Zelkowitz, chapter 1, 2, 3, 4.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
(Note that
sections 4.2 and 4.3, as well as Appendix A, are not part of the syllabus)
Articles
and web references used during the course are not considered part of the
syllabus, but may serve you as background material for further elaboration.
1.
Language
paradigms
2.
Machine
architecture
3.
Data
representation
4.
Verbose
vs. concise syntax
5.
Syntax
vs. types
6.
Semantics
·
Slides
·
Evaluation
of expressions
·
Explicit
sequence control vs. structured sequence control
·
Subprogram
implementation
·
Parameter
mechanisms
·
Describe
the phases of the compiler and give an overall description of what the purpose
of each phase is and how the phases interface
·
Slides
·
Describe
the role of the lexical analysis phase
·
Describe
regular expressions and finite automata
·
Slides