Compiler Construction

Hi all,

firstly, the members of project groups who registered for a project presentation should now have received an invitation to an MS Teams meeting with a date and time that is suitable for the group (if you received two invitations, please consider only the later one). Please check your invitation and send a email to Fabian Ritter in case of errors. Please join the scheduled meetings a few minutes ahead of time to clear out possible technical problems and make sure that your microphone and webcam both work.

Secondly, the re-exam for the course will be written on the 25th of March 2021 on Campus in person, following the University's Covid safety guidelines.
If you want to participate, please register for the exam on your Personal Status page in the CMS until the 18th of March 2021.
If you want to participate but cannot attend the exam in person, e.g. because of travel restrictions, do not register for the written exam but send an email to Fabian Ritter until the 18th of March 2021 instead, so that we can arrange an online oral exam for you.

In either case, UdS students additionally have to register for the re-exam in the LSF system.

Best regards,
the CC team

Hi all,

on Friday, the project comes to a close. This means that the last daily test runs that you can react to will happen in the night from Thursday to Friday, so be careful what you push.
For this deadline, also please make sure that your group.txt file in the repo is up to date and includes exactly all group members who intend to pass the course with this project implementation.

The project presentations will take place from Thursday, March 11, to Monday, March 15, via MS Teams. Please enter the preferences of your group for a time slot on these days in this Doodle until no later than Tuesday, March 9.

Only one person should enter the preferences per group, please agree on them beforehand. Please select as many time slots as possible where all group members are available.

Your meeting will take place in a 30 minute period within a selected time slot, we will announce the exact times for each group once we have the assignment to the time slots.

To pass the project, students must participate in their group's project presentation. The meetings will not be recorded. You will need a working camera and microphone. At least one group member should have the project source code and a working build available for a screen share.

Best,
the CC Team
 

Hi all,

from today on, our daily tests include four new tests that check whether your implementation can compile the benchmark programs that we will use for the competition. Be aware that these tests here do not check exhaustively whether your compiled programs are correct (but their correctness will be evaluated when for the competition). We therefore suggest that you thoroughly test your implementation on larger input programs.

Best,

the CC Team

Hi,

Please be there at least 15 minutes early at the entrance to the foyer. Do not form groups.

Most importantly, you must not attend the exam if you have had close contact to a person tested positive for Covid-19 or experience one of the following symptoms:

• Cough (Husten)
• Sore Throat (Halsschmerzen)
• Runny Nose (Schnupfen)
• Diarrhea (Durchfall)
• Fever (Fieber)
• Limb Pain (Gliederschmerzen)
• Loss of Smell (Geruchsverlust)
• Loss of Taste (Geschmacksverlust)

Sending a medical report certifying one or more of these symptoms to the examination office will make sure that your absence won't be counted as failed attempt.
Likewise, in case you experience any of these symptoms, a medical report certifying your health is mandatory for taking part in the exam.

Make sure to wear medical-grade/FFP2/KN95 mouth-nose-protection (Mund-Nasen-Schutz) whenever you are not sitting or talking to someone, i.e. when asking a question during the exam. Please wash your hands and keep them away from your face. Hand sanitizer will be made available at the entrance of the lecture hall.
Ensure a distance of at least 1.5m at all times. This also holds if you are outside of the lecture hall.

Best,
the CC team

The exam will take place on Thursday, 25 Feb 2021 at 10:00 in Günter Hotz Hall E2.2.
Please make sure to be at the lecture hall at least 15 minutes before this time so that we can start the exam as scheduled.

No tools other than a non-erasable pen are allowed for this exam, especially you may not use a "cheat sheet" and you do not need to bring your own paper.

Make sure to wear medical-grade/FFP2/KN95 mouth-nose-protection (Mund-Nasen-Schutz) whenever you are not sitting or talking to someone, i.e. when asking a question during the exam. Please wash your hands and keep them away from your face. Hand sanitizer will be made available at the entrance of the lecture hall.
Ensure a distance of at least 1.5m at all times. This also holds if you are outside of the lecture hall.

You must not attend the exam if you have had close contact to a person tested positive for Covid-19 or experience one of the following symptoms:

• Cough (Husten)
• Sore Throat (Halsschmerzen)
• Runny Nose (Schnupfen)
• Diarrhea (Durchfall)
• Fever (Fieber)
• Limb Pain (Gliederschmerzen)
• Loss of Smell (Geruchsverlust)
• Loss of Taste (Geschmacksverlust)

Sending a medical report certifying one or more of these symptoms to the examination office will make sure that your absence won't be counted as failed attempt.

Best,
the CC-team

Hi all,

the main exam for the course will be written on the 25th of February 2021 on Campus in person, following the University's Covid safety guidelines.
If you want to participate, please register for the exam on your Personal Status page in the CMS until the 18th of February 2021.
If you cannot attend the exam in person, e.g. because of travel restrictions, do not register for the written exam but send an email to Fabian Ritter until the 18th of February 2021 instead, so that we can arrange an online oral exam for you.

In either case, UdS students additionally have to register for the main exam in the LSF system.

Best regards,
the CC team

The project assignment for the sixth and last phase of the project, the program optimization, are now available on the Materials page. There will be no dedicated automated tests for this phase, so be sure to use your own tests to validate your optimization.

Additionally, the Materials page now contains a document with information on the competition, where the winning teams can earn a bonus on their total course grades. Be sure to check the document even if you don't intend to participate in the competition since it links to a helpful toolkit for testing your compiler.

Hi all,

since the lectures this week discuss recent topics and are, thus, not relevant for your examination, we'll host them as a normal Microsoft Teams Meeting instead of a Live Event, so they will not be recorded. This way, the lecture can be much more interactive.

Regarding the exam, we have started another poll on our MS-Teams page. We kindly ask you to fill out all polls until no later than Wednesday:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19:237e5c752d7a43e99c1407f52e285a58@thread.tacv2/1611328617397?tenantId=67610027-1ac3-49b6-8641-ccd83ce1b01f&groupId=b0af851f-e38b-47f3-9361-a98e71eea998&parentMessageId=1611328617397&teamName=%5B126736%5D%20Compiler%20Construction&channelName=General&createdTime=1611328617397

Best regards,

the CC team

Hi all,

we ask you kindly to fill out a poll until no later than 27.01.2021 regarding your willingness to take the exam: 

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19:237e5c752d7a43e99c1407f52e285a58@thread.tacv2/1611328617202?tenantId=67610027-1ac3-49b6-8641-ccd83ce1b01f&groupId=b0af851f-e38b-47f3-9361-a98e71eea998&parentMessageId=1611328617202&teamName=%5B126736%5D%20Compiler%20Construction&channelName=General&createdTime=1611328617202

The poll is anonymous and helps us to plan ahead.

Best regards,
the CC team

Hi all,

today starts the course evaluation phase, where the students are asked to share what they did or did not like about the course. Please participate in the short anonymous survey via the links on this page. The survey is open until 29 Jan 2021.

Your participation helps us to improve the course in future iterations.

The project assignment for the fifth phase of the project, the LLVM IR Generation, and the IR Generation examples are now available on the Materials page. The daily tests for this phase will run together with those for the previous phases from tonight on.
Please remember to first merge in the newest version of the project template to get the up-to-date build script for LLVM.

We now also have a date for the final hard project deadline: Your work on the project must be completed before 23:59:59 CET on 5 March 2021.
 

Hi all,

We have decided to change the time at which exercise solutions become available. The new time is each Wednesday, 8AM.

Since the solutions will be made available prior to the tutorials, the tutors won't discuss the solutions anymore in an explicit manner.
However, we encourage you to still join and use the opportunity to have fruitful discussions about potential difficulties you might encounter when solving the exercise sheets or understanding the solutions.
Additionally, also note that you may still discuss any project-specific matters with your tutors.

We hope you have a nice Christmas holiday despite the circumstances,
the CC team

You can now see the assignment to the tutorials on your personal status page in the CMS.
The first tutorials will be held on Thursday in their MS Teams channels at 14:15 CET (Tutorial 1) or 16:15 CET (Tutorial 2), respectively.

Additionally, the daily project test runs have started, you can track the progress of all teams on this website.
Lastly, you now have access to the test-collection/tests project in the GitLab. You can use this repository to share the tests that you write for your compiler with the other groups.

Hi all,

please remember to form project groups of 2 to 3 students until Monday, 9 Nov. Use the Group Finding channel in Teams to connect with fellow students and follow the instructions on the How to Attend page to register your GitLab group in time.

Additionally, to make up for the lost lecture room conversations, we will have a virtual group finding event this Friday after the lecture. Instructions for joining will be announced in the Teams chat.

See you there,

the CC team