Conference Agenda

Session

Workshop 1

Time:

Friday, 10/Apr/2026:

9:00am - 12:00pm

Location: Conference Center Oak Room

Presentations

PLCC: A Tool Set for Teaching Programming Languages Courses

"Stoney" Herman Lee Jackson¹, Timothy Fossum², James Heliotis³, Alain Kägi⁴

¹Western New England University, United States of America; ²SUNY Potsdam; ³Rochester Institute of Technology; ⁴Lewis Clark College

This is a hands-on laptop-recommended workshop that introduces partici-

pants to the PLCC compiler-compiler tool set for building Java-based language

interpreters in an upper-level Programming Languages course. One approach

to teaching this course is to show how programming language features such

as language syntax, variable lifetime, procedure application, parameter pass-

ing, recursion, and object-orientation are implemented "under the hood". This

workshop is designed for CS educators who want to explore how PLCC can be

used to support such an approach.