Course codes: Chalmers BSc TIN321, MSc DAT150; GU BSc DIT229, MSc DIT230
Course name: BSc Programming Languages, MSc Programming Language Technology
Official URL: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/course/TIN321
Google group: http://groups.google.com/group/proglang-course-2011
24/2 A set of old exams and solutions.
11/2 Precompiled Java tools (Cup and JLex).
Download, uncompress in your home directory, and
export class path: export CLASSPATH=.:~/javatools:~/javatools/Cup
7/2 Link to Fire on this page.
1/2 Reverted to the old version of lab1 test suite because of conflicts with the lab PM.
28/1 Extended lab1 test suite; added solutions to exercise 1.
24/1 Fixed link to BNFC tutorial.
18/1 Added exam date and lab supervisor names
14/1 Changed dates and locations in the Schedule. Created Google group.
10/1/2011 First version of this page - so far just a copy of the 2010 material. Updates forthcoming soon.
| Date | Time | Place | Event | material | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 18/1 | 13-15 | HC4 | Introduction | lecture 1 | |
| Fri 21/1 | 10-12 | HC4 | Abstract and concrete syntax, Lab 1 overview (Ramona Enache) | lecture 2 PM | |
| Tue 25/1 | 13-15 | HC4 | The BNF converter | lecture 3 | |
| Wed 26/1 | 15-17 | ML2,3,4 | Exercises 1 | exercises solutions | |
| Fri 28/1 | 10-12 | HC4 | Implementing lexers and parsers | lecture 4 | |
| Tue 1/2 | 13-15 | HC4 | Theory of lexing and parsing | lecture 5 | |
| Wed 2/2 | 15-17 | ML2,3,4 | Exercises 2 | exercises solutions | |
| Fri 4/2 | 10-12 | HC4 | Syntax-directed translation | lecture 6 | |
| Mon 7/2 | 23 | - | LAB 1 deadline | PM test suite | |
| Tue 8/2 | - | CHARM | LECTURE CANCELLED | - | |
| Wed 9/2 | - | CHARM | EXERCISE CANCELLED | - | |
| Fri 11/2 | 10-12 | HC4 | Type checking, Lab 2 overview | lecture 7 | |
| Tue 15/2 | 13-15 | HC4 | Interpreters, Lab 3 overview | lecture 8 | |
| Wed 16/2 | 15-17 | ML2,3,4 | Exercises 3 | exercises solutions | |
| Fri 18/2 | 10-12 | HC4 | Code generation | lecture 9 | |
| Tue 22/2 | 13-15 | HC4 | Functional programming languages | lecture 10 | |
| Wed 23/2 | 15-17 | ML2,3,4 | Exercises 4 | exercises solutions | |
| Thu 24/2 | 23 | - | LAB 2 deadline | PM test suite | |
| Fri 25/2 | 10-12 | HC4 | MSc lecture: Lab 4 overview | lecture 11 PM | |
| Tue 1/3 | 13-15 | HC4 | Programming language design and development | lecture 12 | |
| Wed 2/3 | 15-17 | ML2,3,4 | Exercises 5 | exercises solutions | |
| Fri 4/3 | 10-12 | HC4 | Advice for exam and further studies on programming languages | Training Exam | |
| Mon 7/3 | 23 | - | LAB 3 deadline | PM | |
| Fri 11/3 | 23 | - | LAB 4 deadline | PM | |
| Wed 16/3 | 12 | - | all labs final deadline | - | |
| Thu 17/3 | 14-18 | Hörsalsv. 5 | Exam | - | |
Official course schema in Time Edit
The aim of the course is to give understanding of how programming languages are designed, documented, and implemented. The course covers the basic techniques and tools needed to write interpreters, and gives a summary introduction to compilation as well. Those who have passed the course should be able to
Those who take this course as obligatory MSc level course Programming Language Technology, will also have extra material:
Aarne Ranta, course responsible.
Krasimir Angelov, Arnar Birgisson, Ramona Enache, Grégoire Détrez, assistants.
The fastest way to get an answer is to mail the course's Google group http://groups.google.com/group/proglang-course-2011.
If you have any general questions regarding the course, the labs or the exercises, please ask them in our Google group http://groups.google.com/group/proglang-course-2011. This will reach all teachers and fellow students. If you are not yet member of the group, you have to
You can do both on the group page. You will have to give your real name and your person number when you register, otherwise your membership is not approved. This is necessary to identify you as a participant of the course.
Location: 3507a,b
Times:
Extra supervisor at some of the times, especially before lab deadlines. The labs rooms and supervision are available from the second week of the course (Monday 24 January).
Normally, each student should attend one supervised laboration time each week. Since attendance is not compulsory, there may be room for more times. But, if there is lack of room, those who attend their first supervision of the week have priority to get a place and supervisor help.
Aho, Lam, Sethi & Ullman: Compilers Principles, Techniques & Tools Second edition, Pearson/Addison Wesley 2007
Make sure to get the second edition! The book is available at web bookshops and will be sold at Cremona.
More on functional languages, and some help for Lab 4, is given in these slides by Xavier Leroy.
There will be three laborations, written individually or (preferably) in pairs.
On the MSc level, there will be a fourth lab,
Each lab PM will be published before the previous lab has its deadline.
Reporting is done via Fire. Before reporting, you must run your program through a test suite, such as the one for lab 1.
Final deadline is Wednesday 16 March for all returned and corrected labs. No labs will be graded after this deadline.
There are three classes on Wednesday at 15-17:
Exercises give bonus points for the exam: 0.4 points per exercise, the sum rounded to the nearest integer. To claim bonus points, mark the ones you have done in a list in the beginning of the class. Marking an exercise means that you are prepared to present its solution on the blackboard.
To make sure that all your bonus points are counted, you should always go to the same teacher's class.
Written exam, usual grading scales.
Date: 17 March
Time: 14.00-18.00
Place: Hörsalsvägen 5
The exam has the same structure as these old exams.
BNF Converter, http://www.cse.chalmers.se/research/group/Language-technology/BNFC/
Precompiled Java tools (Cup and JLex)