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 18		Course Introduction Asynchronous OCaml Introduction Videos		OCaml Warm-Up
	Jan 20
2	Jan 25	Lecture, Materials	Course Administration and OCaml Review		Higher-Order Functions and Recursive Types
	Jan 27	Lecture, Materials Drop/add ends (Jan 28)	Syntax and Compilation	Hatchling (activity)
3	Feb 01	Lecture, Materials	Bindings and Scope		Auklet
	Feb 03	Lecture, Materials	Arithmetic Operations and Allocation
4	Feb 08	Lecture, Materials	Value Tagging	Bluebird
	Feb 10	Lecture, Materials	C Calling Conventions; Runtime Errors
5	Feb 15	Lecture, Materials	Functions		Cardinal
	Feb 17	Lecture, Materials	Compile-time Errors
6	Feb 22	Lecture, Materials	Heap Allocation and Pairs	Dove
	Feb 24	Lecture, Materials
7	Mar 01	Lecture Materials	System Calls		Eagle
	Mar 03	Lecture Materials	Register Allocation
	Mar 08	Spring Break
	Mar 10
8	Mar 15	Lecture Materials	First-Class Functions and Closures	Mid-Term Take-Home Exam
	Mar 17	Lecture Materials			Falcon
9	Mar 22	Lecture Materials
	Mar 24	Lecture Materials CR/NC/W Deadline (Mar 25)	Memory Management Overview
10	Mar 29	Lecture Materials	Manual Memory Management
	Mar 31	Lecture Materials	Mark/Compact
11	Apr 05	Lecture Materials	Garbage Collection Strategies	Gull
	Apr 07	Lecture Materials	Tail Call Optimization
12	Apr 12	Lecture Materials
	Apr 14	Lecture Materials	LL Parsing and Left Recursion
13	Apr 19	Lecture Materials			Hoopoe
	Apr 21	Lecture Materials	LR Parsing	Pyrrhuloxia
14	Apr 26	Lecture Materials	Type Systems
	Apr 28	Lecture Materials
	May 05	Take-Home Final (Due May 10)