Course Objectives

This course is the capstone course for the computer science curriculum.  The goals of the course are

• Endow students with a clear overall understanding of the compiling process and its sub categories
  • Scanning
  • LL and recursive descent parsing in depth
  • LR parsing at a descriptive level
  • Symbol table generation and management
  • Semantic analysis
  • Code generation
  • A descriptive understanding of optimization
• Provide students with in-depth experience in team programming
• Ensure that students have at least one large programming project to complete during their undergraduate career (the compiler project)
• To tie most of the issues of computer science together in a capstone experience.