When: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30pm - 10:45pm

Where: Computer Science Building (COMSC) 325

Instructor: Michelle Strout, mstrout@cs.colostate.edu
Office Hours: Thursday 11 am to 12 noon in COMSC 342 or by appointment

GTA: Kiley Graim

Recitation: Friday 9-9:50 in COMSC 215

Lab Hours (COMSC linux lab on 1st floor)

• Tuesday 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm, Michelle
• Wed 11 am to 12 noon, Kiley

Class Webpage

URL: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~cs453

Class Communication

Email: cs453-spring-2010@googlegroups.com, URL: http://groups.google.com/group/cs453-spring-2010

Course Requirements

Pre-requisites

An undergraduate automata theory class or consent of the instructor.

Text

• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, & Tools, Second Edition by Aho, Lam, Sethi, and Ullman, Pearson Education, 2007.
  Errata

Responsibilities

• Read the announcements on the course webpage daily.
• Finish assigned reading before the corresponding class meeting.
• Do the assignments listed on the Assignments link off the course webpage.
• Attend scheduled recitations.

Grading

(Grades will be posted on RamCT)

• Programming Assignments, 40%
• Homework Assignments, 10%
• Quizzes, 10%
• Midterm, 20%
• Final, 20%

To pass this course, you must maintain at least a 50% average in the assignment grade (programming + homework assignments) and the test grade (quizzes + midterm + final). For example, a 100% in the assignment grade combined with a 49% test grade will NOT result in a passing grade.

There will be 6 homeworks and the lowest homework score will be dropped.

There will be 6 quizzes on the reading assignments and the suggested exercises. The lowest quiz score will be dropped.

Course Policies

• Students must read and be familiar with the CS Department Student Information Sheet available at http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~info/student-info.html.