Language Translaters and Interpreters

Course Details

Course Number: 5223  Section Number: 170

Fall 2010

Location: Bolin Hall

Classroom Number: 320

Days & Times:

M W 5:30-6:50

Course Attachments

Syllabus  CMPS5223-170Language Translators&Interpreters-20120404-155534.doc

Textbooks

Compiler Construction: Principles and Practice
MSU Faculty Member
Dr. Catherine V. Stringfellow   
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Course Objectives

Catalog Description: A study of context-free and LR(k) grammars, parsing, lexical analysis, syntax and semantics, code generation, optimization, and error diagnostics.  Students will write a simple translator. 

The objectives of the course are to get insight into how compilers work and how they are implemented.  To this end, each student will be required to write a simple compiler. 


Course Expectations

 Prerequisite: CMPS5313 waived.

 Course Assignments:

 Writing a simple compiler that is broken into five programming assignments: 

  1. An interpreter for a MINI-MACHINE programming language
  2. A scanner
  3. An LL parser - 2 parts
  4. A code generator - 2 parts
  5. An LR parser

Additional assignments, quizzes

 Midterm exam  (with open books and notes)

Final exam (with open books and notes)

 

Follows standard grading policy:

90-100 A;   80-89  B; 70-79 C; 60-69 D; 0-59 F


Final Exam12/6/2010  5:45-7:45

Submission Format PolicyNote: You may not submit a paper for a grade in this class that already has been (or will be) submitted for a grade in another course, unless you obtain the explicit written permission of me and the other instructor involved in advance.

Late Paper Policy
  1. Points will be deducted for late assignments
  2. Keep all your graded works until after you receive your final grade.

Policy for late programs and grading available at Programming Assignment Policy


Plagiarism Policy Plagiarism is the use of someone else's thoughts, words, ideas, or lines of argument in your own work without appropriate documentation (a parenthetical citation at the end and a listing in "Works Cited")-whether you use that material in a quote, paraphrase, or summary. It is a theft of intellectual property and will not be tolerated, whether intentional or not.

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Contacting your Instructor All instructors in the Department have voicemail in their offices and MWSU e-mail addresses. Make sure you add your instructor's phone number and e-mail address to both email and cell phone lists of contacts.

Attendance Requirements

Attendance: You are required to attend all class lectures.  If you miss a lecture, it is your responsibility to obtain notes from a fellow student. Office hours are not meant for individual lectures. Attendance will be taken throughout the semester at the discretion of the instructor. Three unexcused absences may result in the student being reported to the Dean of Students. Make-up lecture exams will not be permitted without a valid university excuse. If you are forced to miss an exam, arrangements must be made with the instructor prior to the exam date.

 

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Other Policies

Makeup Exams and Quizzes:  There is one midterm and one final exam.  The only acceptable reason for missing an exam is with a valid university excuse (e.g., excuse from the doctor, death in the immediate family, etc.)  A makeup exam will only be given to those students who have a valid excuse.  If you know ahead of time that you will miss an exam, please see me.

Behavior "All students enrolled at the University shall follow the tenets of common decency and acceptable behavior conducive to a positive learning environment." (See the MSU Student Handbook Standards of Conduct)

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

Academic integrity is the pursuit of scholarly activity free from fraud and deception and is an educational objective of this institution. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating, plagiarizing, fabricating of information or citations, facilitating acts of academic dishonesty by others, having unauthorized possession of examinations, submitting work of another person or work previously used without informing the instructor, or tampering with the academic work of other students (See the MSU Student Handbook Standards of Conduct)

Plagiarism: Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Any evidence of plagiarism will result in no credit for that assignment for the first offense.  The second offense will result in an F in the course.


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