Proposal for Term ProjectCompilers, Fall 2015

J. H. WangNov. 2, 2015

Term Project

• Either team-based programming project (i.e., the same as programming exercises), or

• Compiler-related academic paper presentation– But, your should do it on your own (only 1 person), NOT team-based

• A schedule will be arranged for both paper presentation and system demonstration

• A proposal is needed after midterm (Nov. 23, 2015)– Introduction, methods used, experiment designs

Proposal (for Programming Projects)

• A one-page description of your idea about term project– Introduction: an overview of the language that

you’re trying to deal with– Methods: possible issues in recognizing the

language and the principal ideas of your ways to solve them

– Experiment: design of your experiment to verify your idea

– For team work members: the names and the expected responsible parts of each individual member should be clearly identified

Proposal (for Paper Presentation)

• A one-page description of which papers you want to read and present– No team work allowed– You have to prepare a 15-minute

presentation of the major ideas of the paper

– Topics: compiler or programming language-related

– Possible sources: • Conferences: ASPLOS, POPL, PLDI, OOPSLA, …• Journals: TOPLAS, …

Possible Topics for Programming

• Design and implement a new language or syntax (for programming, human languages, for describing elements in games, music, mathematics, or any other purposes)– Lexical analysis– Syntax analysis– Code generation: format conversion, partial result

analysis output, …– Optional: optimization

• Any topic you think interesting and non-trivial to build from our Programming Exercises

Submission

• Due: after midterm (Nov. 23, 2015)• And your proposal is subject to

review and possible suggestions on changes

Questions?