Spring 2009 Course Schedule

This schedule is approximate, and may be revised at any time.
Relevant chapters from the text are noted in parentheses.
 Week beginning 
 Lectures
 Project
 Homeworks 
 P/S/O 
 January 13
 Introduction (1)       

20
 Lexical analysis (2)
 P1. Scanner (2)
   Setting up your account 
  27
 Parsing (3)      
 February 3
 Parsing (3); Abstract syntax (4)  P2. Parser (3,4)    
  10
 Semantic analysis (5)    
  17
 Activation records (6)  
   
  24
 Translation to intermediate code (7)  P3a. Building AST(4)   
 March
3
 Basic blocks and traces (8)
     
  10
Instruction selection (9)  
   
  17
 No class: Spring break
     
  24
 Liveness analysis (10)  P3b.Type checking   

  31
 Register allocation (11)  
   
 April 7
 Putting it all together (12)
   

  14
 Garbage collection (Chap. 13, in part)  
 
 
  21
 Object-oriented languages (Chap. 14, in part)

 
  28
 Polymorphic types (Chap 16, in part); Review

 
May 5
 Final Exam