Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

COS 401 — Principles of Compiler Construction

COS department course · Nigerian universities

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What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

express the grammar of a programming language
design lexical and syntax analysers and use them in the construction of scanners and parsers
perform the operations of semantic analysis
build a code generator
use different compiler optimization schemes in addition to efficient register allocation and garbage collection; and
design and program a complete working compiler for a given language

Course contents

Basic concepts of compiler, Application of regular expressions in lexical scanners, Parsing (concrete and abstract syntax, abstract syntax trees), Application of context-free grammars in table-driven and recursive-descent parsing, Symbol table management, code generation by tree walking, Compilation approaches – Multi pass, Single Pass,…

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study COS 401.

COS 401 — Principles of Compiler Construction

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

Course contents

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