CSE 231: Advanced Compilers

Fall Quarter, 2011

General Information

Meeting times: Tu-Th 2:00-3:20, location: TM 102
Instructor: Sorin Lerner (email: lerner at cs, Office hours: Th 3:30-4:30pm, CSE 3116)
TA: Zach Tatlock (email: ztatlock at cs, Office hours: TBD, CSE 3262)
Course syllabus and course topics

References

In case you want to want to read about the material we are seeing in class, here are several books you can look at:

Modern Compiler Implementation in Java (2nd Edition) by Andew Appel and Jens Palsberg (on Amazon, on Google Books)
Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation by Steven Muchnick (on Amazon, on Google Books)
Principles of Program Analysis by Flemming Nielson, Hanne R. Nielson and Chris Hankin (on Amazon, on Google Books)

Course project

The project can take the form of an implementation/research project or a reading project. Here are ideas for each:

Ideas for an implementation/research project
Ideas for a reading project

Schedule (ever evolving)

Using MS PowerPoint to view the slides will give you the best experience. If you don't have MS PowerPoint, Open Office works too, except that in some versions of Open Office, the digital ink doesn't display correctly. You can also use Acrobat Reader to view the slides in pdf format. The pdf files display the ink properly, but they are some artifacts here and there, mostly related to animations.