CS 301: Home

Instructor: Ben Wood (contact), SCI E128.

Schedule → now

topic = weekly assignment/meeting topic, lab = lab activity, code = project assignment

Topics may shift slightly. Group meetings will be scheduled early in the week. Lab activities will appear as we get closer.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
25 January	26 January lab Tiny Compiler: Front End	27 January	28 January	29 January lab Tiny Compiler: Back End
1 February topic Regular Expressions and Finite Automata	2 February lab Tiny Compiler: Back End	3 February	4 February	5 February lab NFA simulator
8 February topic Lexers, Grammars, Top-Down Parsing	9 February code Assign: Lexer	10 February	11 February	12 February topic Lexers, Grammars, Top-Down Parsing
15 February (Presidents' Day)	16 February topic Bottom-Up Parsing code Assign: Front End	17 February	18 February code Due: Lexer	19 February lab parser
22 February topic Abstract Syntax Trees and Symbol Tables	23 February lab parser	24 February	25 February code Checkpoint: Front End	26 February lab ASTs
29 February topic Scope and Types	1 March lab ASTs	2 March	3 March code Checkpoint: Front End	4 March lab symbol tables
7 March topic Objects, Subtyping, Information Flow	8 March lab symbol tables	9 March	10 March code Checkpoint: Front End	11 March lab type checking
14 March topic Intermediate Code and Object Representation	15 March lab type checking	16 March	17 March code Due: Front End	18 March
21 March (Spring Break)	22 March (Spring Break)	23 March (Spring Break)	24 March (Spring Break)	25 March (Spring Break)
28 March	29 March code Assign: Back End topic Code Generation	30 March	31 March	1 April topic Optimization and Data-Flow Analysis
4 April topic Optimization and Data-Flow Analysis code Assign: Project	5 April	6 April	7 April code Checkpoint: Back End	8 April
11 April topic Data-Flow Framework	12 April	13 April	14 April code Due: Back End	15 April code Assign: Optimizer
18 April (Patriots' Day)	19 April (Monday Schedule) topic More Optimization	20 April	21 April	22 April code Checkpoint: Optimizer
25 April topic Runtime Systems	26 April	27 April (Ruhlman)	28 April	29 April code Due: Optimizer
2 May topic Projects and Program Analysis	3 May code Checkpoint: Project lab presentations and discussion	4 May	5 May (Reading Period)	6 May (Reading Period)
9 May (Reading Period)	10 May (Final Exams)	11 May (Final Exams)	12 May (Final Exams)	13 May (Final Exams)
16 May (Final Exams) code Due: Project	17 May (Summer Break)	18 May (Summer Break)	19 May (Summer Break)	20 May (Summer Break)