Fall 2014

Links to notes, labs, etc. on future days are copies of materials from the previous year to give you an idea what the future will bring. We will update the notes as the course progresses. Fridays are a figment of your imagination.

We anticipate that we will be dynamically updating this schedule as appropriate during the course of the semester.

MondayTuesday WednesdayThursday
sep 1
Labor Day
sep 2
Registration Day
sep 3
L1: Course Administration and Overview (old slides) Miniquiz
sep 4
L2: Regular Expressions, Language Specification by Formal Grammars (old slides) Miniquiz
Assignment: P1, Scanner / Parser Project Scanner / Parser Project
Handouts: Projects overview
sep 8
R1: Project Information Session
Handouts: Decaf language specification, course tools guide Projects overview (copy).
sep 9
L3: Regular Expressions, Language Specification by Formal Grammars (old slides) Miniquiz
sep 10
L4: Bottom-up Parsing (old slides) Miniquiz
sep 11
L5: Top-down Parsing (old slides) Miniquiz
sep 15
L6: Top-down Parsing #2 (old slides) Miniquiz
sep 16
L7: Intermediate Representations (old slides) Miniquiz
sep 17
L8: Semantic Analysis (old slides) Miniquiz
Project 1 visible to all
sep 18
sep 22
L9: Unoptimized Code Generation (old slides) Miniquiz
DUE: P1, Scanner / Parser Project
Assignment: P2, Semantic Checker Project
sep 23
L10: Unoptimized Code Generation #2 (old slides) Miniquiz
DUE: Teams must be finalized
sep 24
R2: Project Information Session
Handouts: Semantic Checker Project Slides
sep 25
sep 29 sep 30
QUIZ #1
Open laptop, no internet.
Scope: Lectures so far, projects 1 and 2.

Exam: Questions, Solutions.
Practice Exams: 2013 (answers), 2011 (answers), 2010, on OCW.
oct 1 oct 2
ADD DATE TOMORROW
DUE: P2, Semantic Checker Project
Assignment: P3, Code Generator Project
Handouts: x86_64 architecture guide
oct 6 oct 7
R3: Project 3 Information Session
Code Generator Project Slides
oct 8 oct 9
L11: Introduction to Program Analysis (old slides) Miniquiz
oct 13
Columbus Day
oct 14
L12: Introduction to Program Analysis (old slides) Miniquiz
oct 15
L13: Data-flow Analysis (old slides) Miniquiz
oct 16
DUE: P3, Code Generator Project
L14: Foundations of Data-flow Analysis (old slides) Miniquiz
oct 20 oct 21
Assignment: P4, Data-flow Analysis Project
oct 22 oct 23
oct 27
R4: Project Information Session
Data-flow Analysis Project Slides
oct 28 oct 29
L15: Foundations of Data-flow Analysis #2 (old slides) Miniquiz
oct 30
L16: Foundations of Data-flow Analysis #3 (old slides) Miniquiz
nov 3
L17: Foundations of Data-flow Analysis #4 (old slides) Miniquiz
DUE: P4, Data-flow Analysis Project
nov 4
Assignment: P5, Optimizer Project
nov 5 nov 6
QUIZ #2
Questions, Solutions.
Open laptop, no internet.
Scope: Lectures since quiz 1, project 3. and 4. (Code generation and data-flow analysis)
Practice Exams: 2013 (answers), 2011 (answers), 2010, on OCW.
nov 10
Veteran's day
nov 11
Veteran's day
nov 12
L18: Register Allocation (old slides) Miniquiz
nov 13
L19: Register Allocation #2 (old slides) Miniquiz
nov 17
L20: Loop Optimizations (old slides) Miniquiz
nov 18
L21: Introduction to Code Optimization (Instruction Scheduling) (old slides) Miniquiz
nov 19
DROP DATE
L22: Loop Optimizations: Instruction Scheduling (old slides) Miniquiz
nov 20
nov 24
L23: Parallelization (old slides) Miniquiz
nov 25 nov 26
DUE: P5, Checkpoint
nov 27
Thanksgiving
dec 1 dec 2
QUIZ #3
Open laptop, no internet.
Scope: Register Allocation, Lectures from L18 to L22 (both included), projects 4 and 5.
Exam: Questions, Solutions.
Practice Exams: 2013 (answers), 2011 (answers), 2010, on OCW.
dec 3
L24: Parallelization #2 (old slides) Miniquiz
dec 4
L25: Memory Optimizations (old slides) Miniquiz
dec 8
DUE: P5, Optimizer Project (11 am)
dec 9
L26: Compiler Derby!
dec 10
LAST DAY OF CLASSES
dec 11

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