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 17	Lecture Materials	Introduction to Compilers and OCaml		OCaml Warm-Up
	Jan 19	Lecture Materials	OCaml Data Types and Recursion
2	Jan 24	Lecture Materials	Higher-Order Functions in OCaml		Higher-Order Functions and Recursive Types
	Jan 26	Lecture Materials Drop/add ends (Jan 27)	Syntax and Compilation	Hatchling (activity)
3	Jan 31	Lecture Materials	Bindings and Scope		Auklet
	Feb 02	Lecture Materials	Arithmetic Operations and Allocation
4	Feb 07	Lecture Materials	Value Tagging	Bluebird
	Feb 09	Lecture Materials	C Calling Conventions; Runtime Errors
5	Feb 14	Lecture Materials	Functions		Cardinal
	Feb 16	Lecture Materials	Compile-time Errors
6	Feb 21	Lecture Materials	Heap Allocation and Pairs	Dove
	Feb 23	Lecture Materials
7	Feb 28	Old Lecture Materials	System Calls		Eagle
	Mar 02	Lecture Materials	Register Allocation
	Mar 07	Spring Break
	Mar 09
8	Mar 14	Lecture Materials	First-Class Functions and Closures	Mid-Term Take-Home Exam
	Mar 16	Lecture Materials			Falcon
9	Mar 21	Lecture Materials
	Mar 23	Lecture Materials CR/NC/W Deadline (Mar 24)	Memory Management Overview
10	Mar 28	Lecture Materials	Mark/Compact
	Mar 30	Lecture Materials	Manual Memory Management
11	Apr 04	Lecture Materials	Garbage Collection Strategies	Gull
	Apr 06	Lecture Materials	Tail Call Optimization
12	Apr 11	Lecture Materials
	Apr 13	Lecture Materials	LL Parsing and Left Recursion
13	Apr 18	Lecture Materials			Hoopoe
	Apr 20	Lecture Materials	LR Parsing	Pyrrhuloxia
14	Apr 25	Lecture Materials	Type Systems
	Apr 27	Lecture Materials
	May 04	Take-Home Final (Due May 11)