Language Processing: 2nd Semester, 2007

Tentative Syllabus

Course No.	#0927
Instructor:	Dr. Hitoshi Oi (Assistant Professor, Operating Systems Lab.) office: 242-C office hours: Wednesday 1330 - 1630 or by appointment email: hitoshi©u-aizu.ac.jp phone: 2580
Course Web Page:	http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/~hitoshi/COURSES/LP07/
Lecture	Thu, 0900 to 1030 at Classroom M1
Exercise	Mon, 1040 to 1210 at Lab std4
Teaching Assistant	Yuusuke Kobayashi email: m5111109©u-aizu.ac.jp

Course Notice Board

Please check this page regularly and frequently as the notice for the course will be posted on this blog (URL may change later).

Objectives

From University Syllabus:

Students understand the role of language processing systems such as compilers and translators, the processing methods of languages, the importance of compilers, and the relation between theory and practice (that is, formal language theory and language processing systems).

Grading Scheme and Policies

Midterm Exam 25%
Final Exam 35%
Exercises 20%
Course Project 20%
Exercise problems must be submitted by the end of the exercise class time in which the problems are given. No late submission is accepted.
Exercise session spans to two class periods. Therefore, you may take a break at your discretion. However, if you may not disturb other students working on the exercie problem and you may not bring anything unrelated to the course work (such as toys, games, etc). In short, please leave the lab if you don't study.
If a student miss more than three (four) exercises by the mid-term (final) exam, he/she will automatically fail the course. One excuse can be granted if the reason of absence is out of his/her control and proved by an official document (such as doctor's note).
We will take the participation to the course work into account. The current plan is to ask you to read one or two paragraph(s) of the textbook or ask a simple question related to the material being used in the lecture. The number of students who will be asked these things in a single lecture will be limited, but we try to make that each student will receive the same or at least similar number of opportunities over the semester.
A small number of students form a group for the course project. More detail about the course project will be given during the semester.

Textbook

Engineering a Compiler by Keith Cooper and Linda Torczon (Rice University, Houston, Texas),
ISBN: 1-55860-698-X, Morgan Kaufmann.
Please note that each student is required to have his/her own copy of the textbook.

Rough Schedule

The schedule will be adjusted based on progress and understanding of the class. Please check the course web page for any update.

First day: Course Overview and Introduction to compilers.
Next Four to Five Weeks: Scanner: dividing the source code into meaningful chunks (tokens).
Mid-term Exam
Next Four to Five Weeks: Parser: building legal sentences using the grammar and tokens from the scanner.
Final Exam

As shown above, emphasis is placed on the front-end part of the compilers in this class. However, we also cover some topic related to the back-end of the compiler (such as register allocation, intermediate representations, code shaping).

Hitoshi Oi

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