Tentative schedule

Timing: Slot D3 [Mon (12:00pm–01:00pm), Tue (10:00am–12:00pm)] Theory      Section 1     Students with odd roll numbers          Instructor: Aritra Hazra          Classroom: NC241           Section 2     Students with even roll numbers          Instructor: Abhijit Das          Classroom: NC242 Lab: Software Labs, Old and New Buildings, Slot L [Tue (02:00pm–05:00pm)]

Teaching Assistants: Not yet available

Notices and Announcements

Jun 25, 2026

We can accept a few non-CSE students in the theory course. The only selection criterion is the applicants' CGPAs.
For space limitations, we cannot accept any non-CSE student in the lab.

Tentative Coverage (Theory)

• Introduction
• Lexical analysis
• Parsing
• Syntax directed translation
• Intermediate code generation
• Target code generation
• Optimization

Books and References

The main textbook for this course is the following (called The Dragon Book).
• Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman, Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley, 2006 [Indian edition by Pearson, 2014]

  Here are some other references.

• Allen I. Holub, Compiler Design in C, Prentice-Hall, 1990
• Andrew W. Appel, Modern Compiler Implementation in C, Cambridge University Press, 1998
• Steven S. Muchnick, Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation, Morgan Kaufmann, 1997

  For Lex and Yacc programming, the following book is a reference.

• John R. Levine, Doug Brown, Tony Mason, Unix Programming Tools: lex & yacc, second edition, O'Reilly, 1992

Tests

• Class Test 1: End of August
• Class Test 2: End of October
• Mid-Semester Test: To be decided by the institute
• End-Semester Test: To be decided by the institute

• Lab Test 1: End of August
• Lab Test 2: End of October

Lab Assignments

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