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Week by week 2022/2023 OLD INSTANCE
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Note that the information below is preliminary and might be updated.
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Exam,
Week 1 (Aug 29 - Sep 2)
Register formally in LADOK
Sign up on Moodle
Lecture 1: Introduction
- The lecture is Mon 15:15-17:00. Aug 29, 2022 at room E:B
(in the "E house").
- Confirm your place in the course at lecture 1. We have a waiting list of more people.
- Read the Course Program
- Slides L1
- Moodle Quiz Q1
- Appel Book: Ch 1-1.2 (See the course program for how to access the on-line book)
Sign up for lab sessions
- Deadline: Thursday, Sept 1, 2022
- Sign up via the SAM system
- If you don't have a partner, ask at the Moodle forum for someone who wants the same time slot as you.
Lecture 2: Regular Expressions, Scanning. Tuesday 13-15, E:B
Get a git repo for the assignments
See information about this in Moodle
Assignment 0. Java, Unix, Gradle, and Git.
- Do this assignment on your own. Includes basic skills you need in the other assignments.
- Downloads: A0.pdf, A0-JavaGradleProject.zip.
- Estimated typical effort: 1-4 hours, depending on your current proficiency.
Lecture 3: Context-free grammars. Recursive-descent parsing. Thursday, Sept 1, E:B
- Slides L3
- Moodle Quiz Q3
- Appel Book: Parts of Ch 3 (38-47). (Intro to Parsing 3, Context-free grammars 3.1, intro to Predictive parsing 3.2.)
- Appel Exercises: 3.1-3.2. (No solutions provided)
Assignment 1. Scanning and simple parsing.
- Deadline: the Lab session week 2.
- Covers: Lectures 2 and 3.
- Downloads: A1.pdf, A1-CalcParse.zip.
- Estimated typical effort: 5 hours.
Week 2
Lecture 4: Ambiguities. LL problems. Monday.
Lecture 5: LL parsing. Abstract Syntax Trees. Tuesday.
Lab sessions. Thursday (and Tuesday)
Assignment 2. LR parsing and AST building
Week 3
Lecture 6: LR parsing. Visitors.
Lecture 7: Aspects. Attribute Grammars.
Lab sessions.
- For approving and getting help with Assignment 2.
Assignment 3. Visitors, Aspects, and Attribute Grammars.
Week 4
Lecture 8: Reference attributes, Semantic Analysis.
- Slides L8
- Moodle Quiz Q8
- Appel Book: Ch 5 (103-115). Semantic Analysis. However, you may skip the section on EFFICIENT FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL TABLES (107-108).
- An Introductory Tutorial on JastAdd Attribute Grammars, Springer, LNCS 6491, 2011, preprint, published version, sections 1-5. (To access the published version, you need to be on the University network. But the difference is only typographic.)
- Exercises: Do exercises 3-4, 6-9, 14 in the above paper. There are solutions in the back of the paper, but try to solve the problems on your own before looking at them.
- Exercises: There are also exercises in the slides for this lecture.
Lecture 9: Circular attribute grammars. Interpreters.
Online help sessions.
Lab sessions.
- For approving and getting help with Assignment 3.
Assignment 4. Semantic analysis using reference attribute grammars.
Week 5
Lecture 10: Runtime Systems
- Slides L10
- Moodle Quiz Q10
- Appel Book: Ch 6-6.1 on procedural run-time systems (116-126).
Focus on
Introduction, STACK FRAMES, THE
FRAME POINTER, REGISTERS, STATIC LINKS.
- Skim through HIGHER-ORDER
FUNCTIONS, PARAMETER PASSING, RETURN ADDRESSES.
Skip FRAME-RESIDENT VARIABLES
Lecture 11: Code generation.
- Slides L11
- Moodle Quiz Q11
- Appel Book: Ch 7. Translation to Intermediate Code (only the Introduction on page 136. Skip 7.1 and
onwards)
Online help sessions.
Lab sessions.
- For approving and getting help with Assignment 4.
Assignment 5. Interpreter and static analysis
Week 6
Lecture 12: Object-oriented languages, Runtime Optimization.
Lecture 13: Guest lecture
- Dr. Jesper Öqvist will present Juliet, a new robotics programming language based on Julia.
Jesper works part time at LTH and part time at the startup company Cognibotics
where he is contributing to the design and implementation of Juliet.
- Jesper's slides
Online help sessions.
Lab sessions.
- For approving and getting help with Assignment 5.
Assignment 6. Code generation
Week 7
Lecture 14: Course review before exam.
There will be no lecture on Tuesday, Oct 11.
Online help sessions.
Lab sessions.
- For approving and getting help with Assignment 6.
Sign up for exam.
Sign up for the exam.
You will get an automatic email about this.
Week 8
Online help sessions.
Catch-up lab session.
- For approving Assignment 6.
- Tuesday, Oct 18, 13-15, E:Gamma.
Study old exams
Exam
At the exam, you may use the following documents. Copies of them will be available at the exam. You do not need to bring your own.
You may also use a dictionary from English to your native language.
Regular exam
- Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 14:00-19:00. In the Eden building (rooms Ed:025 and Ed:026), downtown, see this map.
- You need to have finished all lab/assignments to be allowed to take the exam.
- You need to sign up for the exam in advance. You should have received an automatic email about this.
- Update 2022-11-18:
- The exam and the solution are now available: 221025.pdf,
221025sol.pdf
- The corrected exams are available for inspection at Ulrika Templing's office,
E:2179
(Contact Birger Swahn in the neighbor office if Ulrika is not there).
- Tentavisning: If you would like to discuss your exam, there will be possibility for that on Tuesday, Nov 22, 15:45-16:15, in "glasburen",
E:2405.
Retake of exam
- The retake exam will be held in the spring retake period (April 2023).
- Update 2023-04-18:
- The retake exam is now corrected, and the corrected exams are available for inspection at Ulrika Templing's office,
E:2179
(Contact Birger Swahn in the neighbor office if Ulrika is not there).
- If you would like to discuss your exam, contact Görel Hedin.
