Compilers

Schedule

Calendar

The following is a tentative course calendar; it is subject to change as circumstances dictate.

Captured videos of lecture are linked in the calendar below. The corresponding resources created during those lectures can be found in the Lecture Materials.

WEEK	DAY	ANNOUNCEMENTS	TOPIC	ASSIGNMENTS
1	Jan 22	Lecture	Introduction to Compilers and OCaml	OCaml Warm-Up
	Jan 24	Lecture Lab Activity (Jan 28)	OCaml Data Types and Recursion
2	Jan 29	Lecture	Higher-Order Functions in OCaml	Higher-Order Functions and Recursive Types
	Jan 31	Lecture Drop/add ends (Feb 01)	Syntax and Compilation
3	Feb 05	Lecture	Arithmetic Operations and Allocation	Auklet
	Feb 07	Lecture	Bindings and Scope		Bluebird
4	Feb 12	Lecture	Value Tagging
	Feb 14	Lecture	C Calling Conventions; Runtime Errors	Cardinal
5	Feb 19	Lecture	Functions
	Feb 21	Lecture	Compile-time Errors	Dove
6	Feb 26	Lecture	Heap Allocation and Pairs
	Feb 28	Lecture
7	Mar 05	Take-Home Mid-Term Assigned Lecture	System Calls		Eagle
	Mar 07	Lecture	Register Allocation
	Mar 12	Spring Break
	Mar 14
8	Mar 19	Lecture	First-Class Functions and Closures
	Mar 21	Lecture Take-Home Mid-Term Due (Mar 22)		Falcon
9	Mar 26	Lecture
	Mar 28	Lecture CR/NC/W Deadline (Mar 29)	Memory Management Overview
10	Apr 02	Lecture	Manual Memory Management
	Apr 04	Lecture	Mark/Compact	Gull
11	Apr 09	Lecture	Garbage Collection Strategies
	Apr 11	Lecture	Tail Call Optimization
12	Apr 16	Lecture
	Apr 18	Lecture	LL Parsing and Left Recursion	Hoopoe
13	Apr 23	Lecture
	Apr 25	Lecture	LR Parsing		Pyrrhuloxia
14	Apr 30	Lecture	Type Systems
	May 02	Lecture
	May 09	Take-Home Final (Due May 17)