Instructor: Dr. Tom Carter
DBH-287 667-3175
tom@csustan.csustan.edu
http://csustan.csustan.edu/~tom
Texts: The required text for the class is:
flex & bison: Text Processing Tools, by John Levine,
O'Reilly Media, Inc. (August, 2009),
ISBN-10: 0596155972, ISBN-13: 978-0596155971
There are other books / resources that are worth looking at . . . we'll talk about various
possibilities in class . . .
Objectives: To gain familiarity with fundamentals of methods and techniques for designing and building compilers for computer programming languages. This will include lexical, syntactic, and semantic analyses and syntax directed translation, along with symbol table construction, error diagnostics, and code generation.
Grading: The grades for this course will primarily be based
on a semester-long project, which will involve various phases.
The project will be team-based, so you each will have to work effectively as
part of a group.
Much additional information about the project will be available as the semester
progresses.
Along the way there will be intermediate exercises . . .
The work you do for this course will be your own. You are not to submit other people's
work and represent it as your own. However, I do expect and encourage you to work
collaboratively with others during the course.