Key: PA = Programming Assignment, WA = Written Assignment

Date Lecture Topic Assigned Due
4/4 Tuesday 1 Course Overview
4/6 Thursday 2 Cool: The Course Project
4/11 Tuesday 3 Lexical Analysis PA1
4/13 Thursday 4 Finite Automata WA1
4/18 Tuesday 5 Introduction to Parsing
4/20 Thursday 6 Syntax-Directed Translation PA2, WA2PA1, WA1
4/25 Tuesday 7 Top-Down Parsing & Bottom-Up Parsing I
4/27 Thursday 8 Bottom-Up Parsing II
5/1 Monday WA2
5/2 Tuesday 9 Semantic Analysis and Type Checking I PA3PA2
5/4 Thursday In-class Midterm
5/9 Tuesday 10 Type Checking II
5/11 Thursday 11 Runtime Organization
5/16 Tuesday 12 Code Generation WA3
5/18 Thursday 13 Operational Semantics PA4, OptimizerPA3
5/23 Tuesday 14 Local Optimization WA3
5/25 Thursday 15 Global Optimization WA4
5/30 Tuesday 16 Register Allocation
6/1 Thursday 17 Garbage Collection PA4
6/6 Tuesday 18 Language Security WA4
6/13 Tuesday Final Exam 3:30-6:30pm, Sapp Center for Science Teaching and Learning 111

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