Meeting Times

• MWF 12:30-1:20, EE1 045
• Final Exam: Thursday, Dec. 16, 8:30am-10:20am

Instructor:

• Craig Chambers (chambers at cs) (anonymous feedback)
• office hours: Wednesdays 2:00-3:00, in CSE 574, or by appointment

TA:

• Andrei Alexandrescu (andrei at cs) (anonymous feedback)
• office hours: Tuesdays 9:30am-10:30am and Thursdays 9:00am-10:00am, in CSE 220, or by appointment

Textbooks

• Required: Modern Compiler Implementation in Java, Second Edition by Appel, with Palsberg
• Suggested, as an alternative reference: Compilers - Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Aho, Sethi, and Ullman (the "Dragon Book")

Prerequisites

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

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

Evaluation

• Homework: 15%
• Midterm: 15%
• Final: 25%
• Course project: 40%
• Class participation: 5%
• (relative weight tentative)

Late Policy

• Each student has three late days to use over the course of the quarter, without penalty. Beyond that, 25% will be deducted from an assignment's grade for each calendar day it is late. Assignments are due at the start of class, unless otherwise noted. Late days are for you to use to manage unavoidable conflicts in your own schedule; excuses for late work beyond the three late days will not be accepted.

On-line Handouts

• Slides from lecture
• Handouts
• Homework assignments
• Project assignments
  
• All handouts (except project assignments)

Reading Assignments

Course Mailing List and Threaded Archives

To browse the threaded archives, go to http://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/private/cse401/2004q4/thread.html.  Note: in order to access the archives, you need your list password, which is not the same as your CSE password. In order to get your password, you need to go to the bottom of the listinfo page, and use the "unsubscribe or edit options" form. On the resulting page, there's an button for sending you a password reminder.

To post to the mailing list, send email to cse401 at cs.washington.edu.

Course Project Resources

• Downloading your project codebase and using CVS
• JFlex, the scanner generator we use
• CUP, the parser generator we use
• x86 architecture manuals
• The inspiration for our MiniJava project