CSE 401: Introduction to Compiler Construction

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Administrivia

Meeting times: MWF, 12:30 to 1:20, MEB 238

Professor: Craig Chambers (chambers@cs), Sieg 309, 685-2094

• office hours: Wednesday & Friday 1:30-2:30 in Sieg 309


Teaching Assistants:

• Vass Litvinov (vass@cs), Sieg 225, 543-3368
• office hours: Tuesday 11:30-12:30 in Sieg 226d
• Zasha Weinberg (zasha@cs), Chateau 115, 616-1854
• office hours: Monday 3:30-4:30 in Sieg 226a

On-Line Handouts

• lecture slides
• homework and reading assignments
• other handouts
• all of the above

Project

• project description and project intro
• instructions on installing and using the PL/0 compiler

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Textbook

• Compilers - Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Aho, Sethi, and Ullman (the "Dragon Book")

Prerequisites

• CSE 326: Data Structures
• CSE 341: Programming Languages
• CSE 378: Machine Organization and Assembly Language
• recommended: CSE 322: Formal Models

Goals

• learn principles and practice of language implementations
• understand tradeoffs between run-time and compile-time processing
• understand tradeoffs between language features, run-time efficiency, and implementation difficulty
• gain experience working with large systems software, object-oriented design, and C++

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