COMP 520 Compilers (Summer Session 2 2024)

Mon-Fri 8:00 - 9:45am in SN115. IN-PERSON.

Class to be held in person! A working draft of the syllabus can be found here!

Office Hours

Kaki Ryan TueThu 2:00pm - 4:00pm FB342

Will Zahrt Weekdays 10:00am - 12:00pm SN142

Course Links

Assignments

Gradescope (Enrollment code is 7EGPEG)

Optional Textbook 1 (Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Alfred Aho, Monica Lam, Favi Sethi and Jeffrey Ullman. 2nd Edition).

Optional Textbook 2 (Programming Language Processors in Java: Compilers and Interpreters, by David Watt and Deryck Brown).

A huge thank you to and credit to Jan Prins and Syed Ali for much of this material and assistance in preparing this course. It wouldn’t have been possible without them.

Course Schedule

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Week 0

Monday 6/24:

• FDOC!! :)
• Lecture 0 – Welcome! What is a Compiler?
• Slides
• Optional Reading: Book #1 - Chapter 1. Book #2 - Chapter 3 (pp55 - 70).

Tuesday 6/25

• Lecture 1 – Intro to PA1, Scanning
• Slides
• PA1 Writeup. Due 7/2 at 11:59pm.
• PA1 Starter Code
• Simple Scanner + Parser Example
• Optional Reading: Book #2 - Sections 4.1 and 4.2 (pp 73-84).

Wednesday 6/26

• Lecture 2 – Parsing Theory
• Slides
• Written Assignment 1 due 6/30 at 11:59pm.
• Practice Problem Recording
• Optional Reading: Book 2 - Sections 4.3.2 and 4.3.3 (pp. 83-93)

Thursday 6/27

• Lecture 3 – EBNF Grammars + Recursive Descent
• Slides

Friday 6/28

• Lecture 4 – Finish Lexical Analysis
• Slides
• Quiz 0 in class!