Meeting Time and Location:
Monday 7:20-10:00pm, Innovation Hall 136
Instructor: Prof. Yutao Zhong.
Email: yzhong (at) cs (dot) gmu (dot) edu
Office: STII 419
Office hour: TBA
Course Home Page
http://cs.gmu.edu/~yzhong/cs440_s07/
Overview
This course will cover the theoretical and implementation aspects
of language processing. Emphasis will be on the techniques and the issues that arise in the design and construction of compilers. There
are several substantial programming assignments associated with this course.
Main topics of the course include:
Prerequisites: C or better in CS 310, CS 330, CS 365
Students are expected to be acquainted with formal
models and languages(CS330), computer structures and assembly languages(CS365),
and data structures(CS310). Students should
have fair programming skills in C or C++.
Textbook
Other Useful Resources
Class Attendance
Required. Please arrive on time. I expect to start at 7:20
sharp, and possibly with a quiz! Please participate in class! Ask
questions if there is something you don't understand.
Grading Policies
Tentative plans call for 3 to 4 programming assignments, together
worth 45% of your grade. These are to be individual efforts, meaning no sharing
of code allowed with anyone but the instructor or the TA. Expect substantial
programming workload. There will also be written homeworks, in-class quizzes,
a in-class midterm exam, and a final exam. Both the final and midterm are closed-book
and closed-notes. Missed exams must be arranged with the instructor BEFORE the
exam. Documentation of the illness (doctor's note) is required. No
early exams will be given and make-up exams are strongly discouraged.
Extra Credit
There may be opportunities for extra credit on some of the projects
or exams. To receive any extra credit for a project, all base functionality
of a project must be implemented; extra credit portions of a project can not count
in place of required features. Extra extensions other than your late days
will not be given for completion of extra credit.
Honor Code I will be using
MOSS to
detect plagiarism in programming assignments.
You are expected to abide by the honor code. All assignments
and exams are individual efforts. Collaborations on any programming assignment
is unacceptable. Please refer to
GMU Academic Policiesand
Computer Science Department Honor Code. Any violation of the honor code will result in a zero of the
assignment/exam, and may result in an F for the class.