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Tuesday lectures are in HC2, Thursday lectures in HA1, starting at 13:15.
Material: plt = course book, dragon = Dragon book. Slides follow closely the plt book.
Date | Time | Title | Material | |
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Tue 06/11 | 13-15 | PL Design, Compilation Phases, calculator | slides, plt 1, dragon 1, live coding | |
Thu 08/11 | 13-15 | Grammars / BNFC / Hands-on with Lab 1 | slides, plt 2, dragon 2.8.2,4.1-4.3 | |
Tue 13/11 | 13-15 | Formal languages and parsing | ||
Thu 15/11 | 13-15 | Theory of lexing | slides, plt 3, dragon 3,4 | |
Mon 19/11 | 23 | Lab 1 deadline | lab1 PM | |
Tue 20/11 | 13-15 | Interpreting | slides, plt 5 | |
Thu 22/11 | 13-15 | Type checking | slides, plt 4, dragon 5,6 | |
Tue 27/11 | 13-14 | Hands-on with Lab 2 (Haskell) | lab2 PM | |
Tue 27/11 | 14-15 | Hands-on with Lab 2 (Java) | ||
Thu 29/11 | 13-15 | Code generation | slides, plt 6, dragon 6,7 | |
Mon 03/12 | 23 | Lab 2 deadline | ||
Tue 04/12 | 13-14 | Hands-on with Lab 3 (Haskell) | lab3 PM | |
Tue 04/12 | 14-15 | Hands-on with Lab 3 (Java) | ||
Thu 06/12 | 13-15 | Domain-specific languages | Guest lecture by Thorsten Berger | |
Tue 11/12 | 13-15 | Functional programming languages | slides, plt 7, dragon 6.5,7.3 | |
Thu 13/12 | 13-15 | Hands-on with Lab 4 | lab4 PM | |
Mon 17/12 | 23 | Lab 3 deadline | ||
Tue 18/12 | 13-15 | Dependent types (Agda) | Live coding start and finish | |
Thu 20/12 | 13-15 | Preparing for the exam | Training Exam | |
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Thu 10/01 | 23 | Lab 4 deadline | ||
Mon 14/01 | 8.30-12.30 | Exam (J) | Exam | |
Thu 24/01 | 23 | Final lab deadline | all lab returns | |
Fri 01/02 | 10-11 | Exam review, EDIT 6128 | Solution | |
Thu 25/04 | 8.30-12.30 | Exam (J) | ||
Thu 29/08 | 14-18 | Exam (J) |
The official course schema is 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
Andreas Abel, responsible course teacher and examiner.
Andreas Lööw, Daniel Schoepe, Fabian Ruch, Iulia Bastys, assistants.
If you have any general questions regarding the course, the labs or the exercises, please ask them in our Google group. This will reach all teachers and fellow students. If you are not yet member of the group, you have to
You will have to give your real name and your person number (or date of birth) when you register, otherwise your membership is not approved. This is necessary to identify you as a participant of the course. Please also indicate whether you are GU or Chalmers student.
Lab supervision take place in ED3354.
Day | Time | Supervisors (tentative) |
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Tue | 15:15-17:00 | AL FR |
Thu | 15:15-17:00 | DS IB |
Fri | 13:15-15:00 | AL FR |
The lab rooms and supervision are available from Thu 08 November till Fri 21 December 2018.
Attendance in these classes is optional. Normally, each student should attend at most 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.
There will be four laborations, written in pairs. (Individual solutions are accepted per exception, please contact the course responsible.) You have to pass the labs to pass the course. However, the course grade is determined solely by the exam.
The labs are quite substantial, so please set aside at least 30 full working hours (4 full working days) before the deadline.
Reporting is done via Fire. Before submitting your solution, run your program through the provided test suite. Also, make sure that your submission contains all necessary files and the build succeeds. For instance, if you are submitting an archive, unpack the archive in a fresh directory and check the build there.
We guarantee two gradings per lab: one for the version submitted before the ordinary deadline for that lab, the other for a resubmission before the final deadline. If your first submission does not build or does not pass the testsuite, you will just get fails testsuite as grading.
Note: You have to submit something by the first deadline, otherwise Fire will not allow a (re)submission for the final deadline. (In the worst case, if you absolutely did not manage to work on the lab before the first deadline, submit an empty solution.)
As part of the grading, you may be asked to explain your solution in person to a course teacher. Be prepared to get a call for such an explanation meeting. In particular, make sure you understand all parts of the solution (good documentation helps!).
The written exam determines the course grade, the usual grading scales apply: Chalmers: 5, 4, 3, U; Gothenburg University: VG, G, U.
Exam dates: 14 Jan 2019 fm J, 25 Apr 2019 fm J, 29 Aug 2019 em J.
The exam tests the understanding of the course contents from a more high-level view, e.g., the underlying theoretical concepts. The exam has the same structure as these old exams (download as archive).
Further, here are some exercises and solutions to prepare for the exam.
The main book will be one that developed from earlier editions of this course:
If you are really interested in the topic, for instance, if you want to continue with the Compiler Construction course, you should also consider the Dragon book,
Both books are available at web bookshops. The main book will also be sold at Cremona.
BNF Converter 2.8 http://bnfc.digitalgrammars.com/ | Hackage | github
You can compile the latest version of BNFC (2.8.2) from its Haskell sources via
cabal update cabal install BNFC
You might find a suitable binary distribution for an older version of BNFC (2.8).
If using the Java backend, you will need the CUP and JLex libraries. CUP has seen incompatible changes in its interface; thus, the version you need may depend on your BNFC version.
Download the JAVA archives for
CUP v11b,
CUP v11b runtime, and JLex, contained in
javatools.
Make sure they are placed in your classpath, for example (Linux / MAC OS)
by storing these jars in
$HOME/java-lib/
and adding the following to .bashrc
(single line):
export CLASSPATH=.:${HOME}/java-lib/java-cup-11b.jar:${HOME}/java-lib/java-cup-11b-runtime.jar:${HOME}/java-lib/javatools.jar:${CLASSPATH}
The order matters since javatools.jar
also contains an older version of CUP;
make sure that javatools.jar
comes last in the search path.
You can download pre-compiled versions here.
Make sure they are placed in your classpath, for example (Linux / MAC OS)
by extracting to ~/javatools/
adding the following to .bashrc
:
export CLASSPATH=.:~/javatools/:~/javatools/Cup/:${CLASSPATH}
On Debian-style Linux (like Ubuntu), the following now also works to install these libaries:
sudo apt install jlex cup
Then the class path needs to be set as follows (bash):
export CLASSPATH=.:/usr/share/java/JLex.jar:/usr/share/java/cup.jar
Student representatives for DAT151 Programming language technology.
Program | @student.chalmers.se | Name | |
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MPALG | carjohne | Carl Johnell | |
MPCSN | chibin | Chibin Kou | |
MPALG | odind | Daniel Odin | |
UTBYTE | afonsor | Afonso Raposo Pereira |
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