Course Syllabus

Week One: Introduction

Class 01 (Friday, August 28, 1998) Introduction

• Class policies
• Course design
• Structure of a compiler
• Assignment of groups for debates

Class 02 (Monday, August 31, 1998) Introduction, continued

• A sample compilation

Class 03 (Wednesday, September 2, 1998) Debate on C vs. Java as implementation language

Class 04 (Friday, September 4, 1998) Debate on Tiger vs. our own language as implemented language

Week Two: Lexical Analysis

Read Chapters 1 and 2 of Appel

Class 05 (Monday, September 7, 1998) Introduction to lexical analysis and regular expressions

• Assigned: assignment 2: straight-line program interpreter

Class 06 (Wednesday, September 9, 1998) Introduction to finite automata

• Deterministic finite automata
• Nondeterministic finite automata

Class 07 (Friday, September 11, 1998) From regular expression to finite automaton

• From regular expression to NFA
• From NFA to DFA
• From DFA to optimal DFA

Week Three: Syntactic Analysis

Read Chapters 3 and 4 of Appel

Class 08 (Monday, September 14, 1998) Introduction to Grammars and Parsing Introduction to grammars and parsing

• Assigned: assignment 3: lexical analyzer
• Assigned: assignment 4: written problems on lexical analysis
• Introduction to grammars
• Introduction to parsing

Tuesday, September 15, 1998

• Due: assignment 2: straight-line program interpreter

Class 09 (Wednesday, September 16, 1998) Grammars and parsing, continued

• Introduction to predictive parsing
• Ambiguous grammars
• An expression grammar

Class 10 (Friday, September 18, 1998) An Expression Grammar

• Predictive parsing
• Improving grammars (left factoring, disambiguating, ...)

Week Four: Grammars and Parsing, Continued

Class 11 (Monday, September 21, 1998) Predictive parsing

• Shift-reduce parsing

Tuesday, September 22, 1998

• Due: assignment 3: lexical analyzer
• Due: assignment 4: written problems on lexical analysis

Class 12 (Wednesday, September 23, 1998) Predictive parsing, continued

Sam and a number of students will be at a conference in Michigan on Friday, September 25.

Week Five: Parsing, Continued

Read Chapter 5 of Appel

Class 13 (Monday, September 28, 1998) Shift-reduce parsing

Class 14 (Wednesday, September 30, 1998) Parsing, concluded

Class 15 (Friday, October 2, 1998) Semantic actions

Week Six: Grammars, Continued

Read Chapter 5 of Appel

Class 16 (Monday, October 5, 1998) Abstract parse trees

• Assigned: assignment 7: abstract syntax generator
• Assigned: assignment 8: attributes and type checking
• Assigned: assignment 9: type checker

Class 17 (Wednesday, October 7, 1998) Digression on proving grammars equivalent

• Due: assignment 5: parser
• Due: assignment 6: parsing

Class 18 (Friday, October 9, 1998) Introduction to type checking

Week Seven: Type Checking

Class 19 (Monday, October 12, 1998) Type checking, continued

• Due: assignment 8: attributes and type checking

Class 20 (Wednesday, October 14, 1998) Type checking, continued

• Due : assignment 7: abstract syntax generator

Class 21 (Friday, October 16, 1998) Type checking declarations

Fall Break

Fall Break runs from 5 pm Friday, October 16, to 8 am Monday, October 26.

Week Eight: Stack Frames

Read Chapter 6 of Appel

Class 22 (Monday, October 26, 1998) Stack frames

Class 23 (Wednesday, October 28, 1998) Discussion of midterm

Class 24 (Friday, October 30, 1998) Abstracting stack frames

• Due: assignment 9: type checker

Week Nine: Intermediate Representation Trees

• Read Chapter 7 of Appel

Class 25 (Monday, November 2, 1998) Intermediate representation trees

Class 26 (Wednesday, November 4, 1998) Detour: Type checking field variables

Class 27 (Friday, November 6, 1998) Translating variables and data

Week Ten: Intensive Coding

I will be at the Webnet World Conference on the Internet the first two days of this week. I may ask Mr. Walker to give optional lectures on computer architecture for those of you who have not yet had an architecture course. Or, I may simply give you the day off.

Class 28 (Friday, November 13, 1998) Translating control structures

Week Eleven: Intermediate Representation Trees, Continued

• Read Chapter 8 of Appel

Class 29 (Monday, November 16, 1998) More control structures

Class 30 (Wednesday, November 18, 1998) Canonical trees

Class 31 (Friday, November 20, 1998) Canonicalizing trees, continued

Week Twelve: Intermediate Representation Trees, Concluded

Class 32 (Monday, November 23, 1998) Intermediate code, concluded

Class 33 (Wednesday, November 25, 1998) Special topic: Interpreting IRTs

No class on Friday, November 27, as it is Thanksgiving Break.

Week Thirteen: Completing the Compiler

• Scan chapters 9-12 of Appel

Class 34 (Monday, November 30, 1998) Generating assembly code

Class 35 (Wednesday, December 2, 1998) Liveness analysis

Class 36 (Friday, December 4, 1998) Register Allocation

Week Fourteen: Wrapup

Class 37 (Monday, December 7, 1998) Student presentations

• Pause to fill out evaluation forms
• Reference counting
• Copying collectors

Class 38 (Wednesday, December 9, 1998) Student presentations

Class 39 (Friday, December 11, 1998) Wrapup

• Summary of topics learned
• Short discussion of other topics in compilers
• Discussion of questions on the final
• Projects due!

Final

The final examination will be due at 9:00 am on Thursday, December 17, 1998.