First day handout (syllabus that is specific to this semester).

Lecture notes

Assignments

Assignment 1 on adding code generator support for vectors and run-time library support for memory management is due by the end of Thursday, February 23.
The documentation for the original C++-based VM is here.

Assignment 2 on adding O1 and O2 optimizations is due by the end of Tuesday, March 13 (updated from March 10).

Assignment 3 on porting assignment 2's code generator to a Java-based VM is tentatively due by the end of Sunday, April 8.

Assignment 4 on generating code for parallel reduce and collect constructs is due by the end of Wednesday, April 25 (changed from Sunday, April 22).

Assignment 5 on O1 optimization for constant subexpression folding and elimination of run-time constant variables is due by the end of Friday, May 11.

Links to useful course materials.

The Dragon Book website for the textbook that we are using.
The Python website is at http://www.python.org/.
Documentation is at http://docs.python.org/.
There is a good on-line tutorial and reference by Steven F. Lott called Building Skills in Python. There is a PDF copy here.
We will be using the 2.6 or 2.7 version of Python, not 3.x.
Python on bill is at /opt/csw/bin/python.
Python supplement on regular expressions and parser generators from Spring 2010 Programming Languages course.

http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/  has the gmake manual.

Make sure to use either the 16-bit or 32-bit download tools for Python, Java and Eclipse consistently in the following steps. I have used 32-bit tools for the first time with Windows 7 this semester, with no particular problems. Do not mix and match 16-bit and 32-bit versions of Python, Java and Eclipse during installation.

Download site for Python, use latest stable 2.7.n (or later 2.x.n) version, not 3.x!
       After installing Python 2.7 (default installation is under C:\Python27), go to Windows Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables and set system variable PYTHONPATH to your Compiler1/ directory. This latter instructions assumes that all of your course work will go into subdirectories beneath the Compiler1/ directory. You can decide where to create Compiler1.
Download site for FileZilla file transfer utility for transferring files between bill and your PC, or you can use whatever you already have, for example WinSCP.
Download and install the current Java Development Kit (JDK) before installing Eclipse.
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp has downloads
       for JDK 7 (version 1.7) docs and tools (compiler, etc. for Windows).
       Download Java SE Development Kit (JDK) 7 -> Download -> Continue -> Continue,
       then click the file, ignoring the "Sun Download Manager."
       After installing JDK 1.7, go to Windows Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables and set system variable CLASSPATH to your JavaLang directory. If CLASSPATH is already there, append a semicolon followed by your JavaLang path to the string that is there.
Download site for Eclipse IDE/Debugger for Java.
       Use the "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers," then  update it as follows.
       Download and unzip Eclipse.
       Go into the Eclipse directory and run the eclipse executable file.
       Make sure that your Eclipse workspace is in a directory that is completely different from any of your source code projects. Do not mix Eclipse's meta-data with your programming projects!
       Once Eclipse is running, click Help -> New Software -> Add site.
       Add http://pydev.org/updates as a site, click the boxes to add packages.
       Eclipse should require a restart.
       Window -> Preferences -> Pydev -> Editor -> Interpreter Python for interpreter.
       "Auto Config" (or "New") to add Python 2.6 interpreter. If Auto Config does not find Python 2.6, use "New" to add the path to the Python interpreter, for example C:\Python26\python.exe if that is where you installed Python. In this same panel under System PYTHONPATH add your Compiler1 (previously ProcLang) directory via "New Folder."
        (New step 9/2012) It may be necessary to go to Window -> Preferences -> PyDev -> Interpreter-PyDev and add the full path to your Compiler1 directory to the System PYTHONPATH.
        Pitfall #1: After you successfully install and configure PyDev tools under Eclipse, exit Eclipse and reboot your PC. Problems that I have encountered may be due to networking problems in Old Main, but I have had to do this step on two machines after Eclipse went into a hung state, so you might as well do this after setting up Eclipse and PyDev.
       We will go over Pydev Projects, source editing and debugging in class.
        Pitfall #2: If you remove a Python project such as Compiler1, a) do not check the box to actually remove the Python files, and b) after removing the project, exit Eclipse and go into the project directory with the Windows Explorer and remove files .project and .pydevproject.
        Pitfall #3: Whenever you copy files from bill into a Python project under Eclipse, make sure to right-click "Refresh" (F5) on your Python project in Eclipse's "Pydev Package Explorer" panel.
       Pydev's home is here.