Spring 2011 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 10
 Introduction (1)       

17
 Lexical analysis (2)
 P1. Scanner (2)
   Setting up your account 
  24
 Parsing (3)      
  31
 Parsing (3); Abstract syntax (4)  P2. Parser (3,4)    
 February 7
 Semantic analysis (5)    
  14
 Activation records (6)  
   
  21
 Translation to intermediate code (7)  P3a. Building AST(4)   
 
28
 Basic blocks and traces (8)
     
 March 7
Instruction selection (9)  
   
  14
 No class: Spring break
     
  21
 Liveness analysis (10)  P3b.Type checking   

  28
 Register allocation (11)  
   
 April 4
 Putting it all together (12)
   

  11
 Garbage collection (Chap. 13, in part)  
 
 
  18
 Object-oriented languages (Chap. 14, in part)

 
  25
 Polymorphic types (Chap 16, in part); Review

 
May 2
 Final Exam