Subject: Formal Languages and Compiler Design Methods	Code: MIF0003	

Semester	 Hours: C+S+L	Type	 Section	
3	2+1+1	compulsory	Mathematics and Computer Science	

Teaching Staff in Charge	Prof. KASA Zoltan, Ph.D., kasa@cs.ubbcluj.ro
Assoc.Prof. MOTOGNA Simona Claudia, Ph.D., motogna@cs.ubbcluj.ro
Lect. LUPSA Dana, Ph.D., davram@cs.ubbcluj.ro
Asist. TARTA Adriana Mihaela, adriana@cs.ubbcluj.ro
Asist. PETRASCU Vladiela, vladi@cs.ubbcluj.ro	
Aims	Grammars and languages; Chomsky hierarchy; regular grammars, finite automata and the equivalence between them; context-free grammars, push-down automata and their equivalence.
Compiler construction fundamentals: compiling phases, scanning, persing and code generation	
Content	I. Grammars, languages, automata

Regular gramamrs and languages. Finite automata.
Context free grammars and languages. Pushdown automata.
Turing automta
Special grammars - LR(k), LL(k) and precedence grammars

II. Compilers

Genaral problems of compiler contruction
Lexical parsers
Syntactical analyzers - ascendent and descendent methods
Intermediar forms
Code generation and optimization	
Selective References	1. A.V. AHO, D.J. ULLMAN - Principles of computer design, Addison-Wesley, 1978.
2. A.V. AHO, D.J. ULLMAN - The theory of parsing, translation and compiling, Prentice-Hall, Engl. Cliffs., N.J., 1972, 1973.
3. D. GRIES - Compiler construction for digital computers,, John Wiley, New York, 1971.
4. SIPSER, M., Introduction to the theory of computation, PWS Pulb. Co., 1997. 
5. G. MOLDOVAN, V. CIOBAN, M. LUPEA - Limbaje formale si automate. Culegere de probleme, Univ. Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, 1996.,l http://math.ubbcluj.ro/~infodist/alf/INDEX.HTM
6. CSÖRNYEI ZOLTÁN, Bevezetés a fordítóprogramok elméletébe, I, II., ELTE, Budapest, 1996
7. L.D. SERBANATI - Limbaje de programare si compilatoare, Ed. Academiei RSR, 1987.
8. CSÖRNYEI ZOLTÁN, Fordítási algoritmusok, Erdélyi Tankönyvtanács, Kolozsvár, 2000.
9. DEMETROVICS JÁNOS-DENEV, J.-PAVLOV, R., A számítástudomány matematikai alapjai, Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó, Budapest, 1999.	
Assessment	The final grade will reflect the seminar and lab activity and the knowledge obtained by the students.
The final mark will be compute from: 25% lab_mark + 75% exam_mark (icluding semnianr work too)