In programming, the two key concepts often surface when discussing the quality and functionality of code are syntax and semantics. While syntax refers to the structure and rules that code must adhere ...

In this text we’ll talk about syntax and semantics, so it’s important that we understand what these terms mean, particularly in the context of computer programming. In a (natural) language course—say ...

This course is about understanding and reasoning about programs and programming languages. Any programming language an be studied at a number of di erent (but related) levels.

Because the semantics is an integral part of a formal definition of a programming language, we have prepared a package of modules, that help us and to students to understand the most popular semantic ...

Typically, they give semantic descriptions of a series of small programming languages, starting from a very simple one, and subsequently extending it with various new features. For each extension, ...

I will present our K-based language-independent verification framework that can be instantiated with an operational semantics to automatically generate a program verifier. The framework treats both ...