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Course information for COP-3402 Systems Software Spring 2019 at UCF

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COP-3402 Systems Software Syllabus

  • Spring 2019
  • Section 1
  • University of Central Florida
  • Prerequisite(s): CDA 3103C and COP 3502C each with a grade of C (2.0) or better.

Personnel

Office Hours

  • Mondays 1:00pm-2:00pm (Sharare, HEC-315)
  • Tuesdays 11:00am-12:00pm (Necip, HEC-213)
  • Wednesdays 11:00am-12:00pm (Necip, HEC-213)
  • Wednesdays 1:00pm-2:00pm (Sharare, HEC-315)
  • Thursdays 10:00am-11:00am (Paul, HEC-239)
  • Fridays 10:00am-11:00am (Paul, HEC-239)
  • or by appointment as necessary

Schedule

Class: Tuesday/Thursday 12:00PM-1:15PM CSB-0101

Semester: 01/07-04/30

Break: week of 03/11, no class, lab, or office hours.

Labs:

  • Thursday 1:30PM-2:20PM HEC-0104
  • Thursday 2:30PM-3:20PM CB2-O204
  • Thursday 3:30PM-4:20PM BA2-0207
  • Thursday 4:30PM-5:20PM BA2-0208

All dates in year of semester, times in UCF's time zone.

Lecture Schedule

Week Tuesday Lecture Thursday Lecture HW Dragon Book
01/08 Course overview Tools None Chapter 2
01/15 PL/0 variant programming language Regular expressions, Project 1 announcement None 3.1-3.3
01/22 Automata Lexing and ASCII encoding HW1 regex/dfa 3.4-3.7
01/29 Grammars, Project 1 due, Project 2 announcement Top-down parsing HW2 CFGs/languages 4.1-4.4
02/05 ASTs Bottom-up parsing HW3 draw ASTs 2.5.1, 3.5.1, 4.4-4.6
02/12 Types, Project 2 due, Project 3 announcement Type-checking: symbol tables and declarations HW4 LR parsing 6.5
02/19 Type-checking: expressions and statements Compiler front-end review and Q&A HW5 type-check some ASTs (same)
02/26 P-code machine, Project 3 due, Project 4 announcement Functions HW6 evaluate p-code 7.1-7.3
03/05 Code generation: functions, Project 4 due, Project 5 announcement Code generation: expressions HW7 accessing functions/vars 8.10, 6.2-6.4
03/12 (break) (break) None None
03/19 Code generation: expressions Code generation: statements, Project 6 announcement HW8 codegen expression 6.6-6.7
03/26 Code generation: everything Compiler back-end review and Q&A HW9 codegen statements (same)
04/02 Assembly, object files, linking, and loading, Project 5 due Optimization None None
04/09 Program analysis Software security HW10 control/data flow None
04/16 Final review, Project 6 due Final review None None

All readings are chapters and sections (inclusive) from the Dragon book (Compilers: Principles, Techniques, & Tools, Second Edition)

Due Dates

All projects are due on the Tuesday morning before class at 02:00AM

  • Project 1 Tuesday morning 01/29 02:00AM
  • Project 2 Tuesday morning 02/12 02:00AM
  • Project 3 Tuesday morning 02/26 02:00AM
  • Project 4 Tuesday morning 03/05 02:00AM
  • Project 5 Tuesday morning 04/02 02:00AM
  • Project 6 Tuesday morning 04/16 02:00AM

All homework is due before the lab you attend

Final Exam

Thursday 04/25 10:00AM-12:50PM CSB-0101

Grading

  • 45% Programming project

    Each student produces their own complete compiler and p-code interpreter.

    • 6pt Project 1 - lexer
    • 9pt Project 2 - parser
    • 8pt Project 3 - typechecker
    • 5pt Project 4 - p-code machine
    • 9pt Project 5 - code generation (functions and variables)
    • 6pt Project 6 - code generation (expressions and statements)
    • 2pt for a complete, working compiler

    For each project, 1pt when the program compiles and there is evidence of effort. Remaining points given based on how many test cases passed. Minus 1pt for each project that is late.

    • Warning: each phase depends on the previous

      To avoid lost points on later projects due to incomplete work on previous projects, use the given precompiled binaries. E.g., if your parser is broken, use the given parser.o and continue working on the later parts of the program.

      • lexer: depends on no previous phases
      • parser: use the given lexer.o to work on the parser
      • typechecker: use the given parser.o to work on the typechecker
      • p-code: depends on no previous phases
      • code generation: use the given parser.o, typechecker.o, and vm.o, only typesafe programs will be tested
        • functions and variables: no statements will be tested (except those given and required)
        • expressions and statements: functions or variables will be tested (except those given)

  • 25% Homework

    Assigned via webcourses. Roughly 8-12 small homeworks. Useful for completing programming projects. Useful as final exam preparation. Leniently graded. 0pt for late homework. Lowest two homeworks dropped.

  • 30% Final

  • +5% Discretionary and bonus points (participation, effort, etc).

Letter Grades

A >= 90%, B+ >= 87%, B >= 80%, C+ >= 77%, C >= 70%, D >= 60%, F < 60%. (minuses may be used in some cases)

Course Info

Description

Design and development compilers, virtual machine interpreters, assemblers, linkers, and loaders. Additionally, basic operating systems will be covered as well as brief introductions to advanced topics such as optimization, software security, and program analysis.

Learning Outcomes

This course will provide students an understanding of systems software tools, in particularly the compiler and other tools for processing and executing programming languages. Student will learn both the big picture view of these tools as well as the details of their development. Students will gain both conceptual and practical understanding of the mechanics of these tools. The following include motivational benefits of such study:

  • To understand well your development tools and be a better engineer
  • To work on large, complex piece of software and gain experience with
    • modularity, apis and invariants
    • incremental improvement
  • To think formally about algorithms
  • To think practically about working with data structures
  • To think about invariants, i.e., pre and post conditions, in large software products.
  • To use real-world development tools

Course Materials

Recommended

  • Compilers: Principles, Techniques, & Tools, Second Edition by Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman. Addison Wesley, 2007

Supplementary

  • Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation by Steven Muchnich. Morgan Kaufman, 1997
  • Modern Compiler Implementation in C by Andrew Appel. Cambridge University Press, 1998
  • Compiler Construction: Principles and Practice by Kenneth C. Louden, PWS, 1997
  • Concepts of Programming Languages, 8th Edition by Robert W. Sebesta. Addison Wesley, 2010.

Core Policy Statements

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In-Class Recording Policy

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Course Accessibility Statement

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