CSc 453 Compilers and Systems Software - Schedule

Introduction

Week 1

Lecture #1, Mon, Aug 24: Administrivia, Introduction

Grading policy
Course content
Office hours: MF 10:30-11:30
Midterm exam will be Friday, October 16!!!
Final exam will be Friday, December 18!!!
Lecture note #0 (Administrivia) handed out.

Lecture #2, Wed, Aug 26: Introduction

Introduction
Lecture note #1 (Compiler Overview) handed out.

Lecture #3, Fri, Aug 28: TINY

The TINY Language and its compiler
Lexical analysis
Lecture note #2 (Teensy Simple I) handed out.
Lecture note #3 (Lexical Analysis I) handed out.
Lecture note #4 (Lexical Analysis II) handed out.

Week 2

Lecture #4, Mon, Aug 31: Lexical Analysis

Introduction to Lexical analysis

Lecture #5, Wed, Sep 2: Lexical Analysis

Building NFAs and DFAs
Assignment 1 (Lexical analysis) handed out.
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Lecture #6, Fri, Sep 4: Tutorial Section

Lexical Analysis

Week 3

Lecture #7, Mon, Sep 7: Labor Day

No class

Lecture #8, Wed, Sep 9: Lexical Analysis

Building NFAs and DFAs
Lexical Analysis

Lecture #9, Fri, Sep 11: Tutorial Section

Lexical Analysis

Week 4

Lecture #10, Mon, Sep 14: Syntax Analysis

Assignment 1 (Syntax Analysis) is due.
Lecture note #5 (Concrete and Abstract Grammars) handed out.
Lecture note #6 (Top-Down Parsing I) handed out.
Lecture note #7 (Top-Down Parsing II) handed out.

Lecture #11, Wed, Sep 16: Syntax Analysis

Syntax Analysis

Lecture #12, Fri, Sep 18: Tutorial Section

Syntax Analysis

Week 5

Lecture #13, Mon, Sep 21: Syntactic Analysis

Syntactic Analysis

Lecture #14, Wed, Sep 23: Syntactic Analysis

Syntactic Analysis
Assignment 1 (Lexical analysis) is due.
Assignment 2 (Syntactic analysis) handed out.

Lecture #15, Fri, Sep 25: Tutorial Section

Syntactic Analysis

Week 6

Lecture #16, Mon, Sep 28: Semantic Analysis

Semantic Analysis
Lecture note #8 (Top-Down Parsing III) handed out.
Lecture note #9 (Semantic Analysis I) handed out.
Lecture note #10 (Semantic Analysis II) handed out.
Lecture note #11 (Semantic Analysis III) handed out.

Lecture #17, Wed, Sep 30: Semantic Analysis

Semantic Analysis

Lecture #18, Fri, Oct 2: Tutorial Section

Semantic Analysis

Week 7

Lecture #19, Mon, Oct 5: Semantic Analysis

Semantic Analysis

Lecture #20, Wed, Oct 7: Semantic Analysis

Semantic Analysis

Lecture #21, Fri, Oct 9: Tutorial Section

Semantic Analysis

Week 8

Lecture #22, Mon, Oct 12: Semantic Analysis

Semantic Analysis
Assignment 2 (Syntactic analysis) is due.
Assignment 3 (Semantic analysis) handed out.

Lecture #23, Wed, Oct 14: Review

Review

Lecture #24, Fri, Oct 16: Midterm

Midterm exam

Week 9

Lecture #25, Mon, Oct 19: Intermediate Code

Intermediate Code
Lecture note #12 (Semantic Analysis IV) handed out.

Lecture #26, Wed, Oct 21: Intermediate Code

Intermediate Code
JVM
Lecture note #13 (Intermediate Code I) handed out.

Lecture #27, Fri, Oct 23: Tutorial Section

Intermediate Code

Week 10

Lecture #28, Mon, Oct 26: Interpretation

Interpretation
Lecture note #14 (Intermediate Code II) handed out.

Lecture #29, Wed, Oct 28: Code Generation

Assignment 3 (Semantic analysis) is due.
Assignment 4 (Interpretation) handed out.
Code Generation
Lecture note #15 (Intermediate Code III) handed out.
Lecture note #16 (Intermediate Code IV) handed out.
Lecture note #17 (The Java VM) handed out.

Lecture #30, Fri, Oct 30: Tutorial Section

Interpretation and Code Generation

Week 11

Lecture #31, Mon, Nov 2: Procedures

Procedures

Lecture #32, Wed, Nov 4: Procedures

Procedures

Lecture #33, Fri, Nov 6: Tutorial Section

Code Generation and Procedures
Lecture note #17 (The Java VM) handed out.

Week 12

Lecture #34, Mon, Nov 9: Code Generation

Code Generation

Lecture #35, Wed, Nov 11: Veteran's Day

No class

Lecture #36, Fri, Nov 13: Tutorial Section

Code Generation and Optimization

Week 13

Lecture #37, Mon, Nov 16: Optimization

Optimization
Lecture note #18 (Interpreters) handed out.

Lecture #38, Wed, Nov 18: Optimization

Optimization
Assignment 4 (Interpretation) is due.
Assignment 5 (Procedures) handed out.

Lecture #39, Fri, Nov 20: Tutorial Section

Optimization

Week 14

Lecture #40, Mon, Nov 23: Object Oriented Languages

Object Oriented Languages
Lecture note #19 (Code Generation I) handed out.

Lecture #41, Wed, Nov 25: Object Oriented Languages

Object Oriented Languages

Lecture #42, Fri, Nov 27: Thanksgiving

No class

Week 15

Lecture #43, Mon, Nov 30: Garbage Collection

Garbage Collection

Lecture #44, Wed, Dec 2: Applications

Software Protection

Lecture #45, Fri, Dec 4: Applications

Software Protection

Week 16

Lecture #46, Mon, Dec 7: Review

Review
Lecture taught by TA, CC away.

Lecture #47, Wed, Dec 9: Review

Review
Assignment 5 (Procedures) is due.