COMP 520: Compilers (Spring 2021)

Next expected offering: Spring 2022

COMP 520 - Compilers
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~prins/Classes/520/

Spring 2021
Tue, Thu 12:30 - 1:45 PM
Jan 19 - May 4
Instructor: Jan Prins (prins@cs.unc.edu)
TA: Chris Dean (cmdean@cs.unc.edu)

Overview

This upper-level undergraduate class (also available for graduate credit) extends and integrates material from prerequisite courses to build a compiler for a non-trivial subset of the Java programming language. Java is also the implementation language for the compiler. Upon completion of this course, you should:

Understand the theory and practice of compilers, linkers, debuggers, and program execution by hardware or abstract machines.
Appreciate the effect of trade-offs in programming language design and computer architecture on program compilation and the run-time support system.
Have gained additional experience with the design and implementation of a large and complex program using Java.
Be prepared for advanced study in programming languages and optimizing compilers.

Course Syllabus

Administrative details, such as prerequisites, exam dates, honor code, and the sequence of topics covered in the course can be found in the course syllabus

Text

Programming Language Processors in Java: Compilers and Interpreters, by David Watt and Deryck Brown, Prentice Hall, 2000 (ISBN 0-130-25786-9).

[Course text] Watt & Brown, Programming Language Processors in Java

Textbook
The missing page 150

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