CSE 231: Advanced Compilers

Fall Quarter, 2012

General Information

Meeting times: Tu-Th 12:30-1:50, location: WLH 2113
Instructor: Sorin Lerner (email: lerner at cs, Office hours: TBD, CSE 3116)
TA: Zach Tatlock (email: ztatlock at cs, Office hours: TBD)
Course syllabus and course topics
Piazza site

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 course project will allow you to get a feel for what implementation and/or research is like in compilers. You will explore some implementation aspect of a compiler. Here are some ideas.

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.