Compiler Design

Catalog description

The course provides an overview of fundamental principles in compiler design. These principles encompass lexical, syntactic, and semantic analysis involving finite and push-down automata, top-down and bottom-up parsing, error detection and recovery, semantic actions, and code generation. Satisfies Computer Science major and minor requirement. Prerequisites & Notes The students taking this course are expected to have some experience in C/C++. The students should have taken CSC 221 - Data Structures and CSC 250 - Computer Organization.