COP-3402 Systems Software Syllabus

• Fall 2019
• Section 1
• University of Central Florida
• Prerequisite(s): CDA 3103C and COP 3502C each with a grade of C (2.0) or better.

Personnel

• Instructor
  • Paul Gazzillo [email protected]
• GTA
  • Mesut Ozdag [email protected]

Office Hours

• Mondays 2pm-3pm (Mesut, the cave) except 09/02
• Tuesdays 3pm-4pm (Paul, HEC-239) except 08/27
• Wednesdays 1pm-2pm (Mesut, the cave)
• Thursdays 3pm-4pm (Paul, HEC-239) except 08/27, 11/28
• by appointment if necessary

Schedule

Class: Tuesday/Thursday 7:30PM-8:50PM CB2 O106

Dates: 08/27-12/03

No lecture: 08/29, 11/28

Labs (check your schedule for the room assignment)

• Wednesday 2:30PM-3:20PM CB1 O120
• Wednesday 3:30PM-4:20PM CB1 O120
• Wednesday 4:30PM-5:20PM CB1 O120

Final exam period: Thursday 12/05/2019 7:30 PM–9:50 PM (will end at 9pm)

All dates in year of semester, times in UCF's time zone.

Lecture Schedule

Date	Tuesday Lecture	Date	Thursday Lecture
08/27	Course overview, using git	08/29	(no lecture, game)
09/03	(cancelled, storm)	09/05	(cancelled, storm) Online: OS overview, dev tools, running LLVM
09/10	Compiler overview and basic LLVM IR	09/12	Lexing, ascii
09/17	Automata theory, regular expressions	09/19	Regular expressions to NFAs to DFAs
09/24	Formal grammars and parsing (proj0 due)	09/26	Predictive parsing with recursive descent
10/01	Arithmetic expressions in assembly	10/03	Recursion
10/08	LR parsing	10/10	Variable constructs (proj1 due)
10/15	Symbol tables and type checking	10/17	Memory management on the stack
10/22	Structured programming and control-flow	10/24	Implementing control-flow in LLVM IR
10/29	Implementing control-flow constructs (proj2 due)	10/31	The function abstraction, stack frames
11/05	Function constructs, symbol tables and type-checking revisited	11/07	Functions in LLVM IR, Intel ABI
11/12	Optimization	11/14	Control-flow and data-flow analysis (proj3 due)
11/19	Software security	11/21	Program analysis
11/26	Review	11/28	(no lecture, thanksgiving)
12/03	Review (proj4 due)	12/05	Final exam period 7:30pm-9:50pm (end at 9pm) (late project deadline)

Due Dates

All homework is due one week after assignment, i.e., 7:30pm Tuesday or Thursday. Homework assigned at each lecture, except 08/29, 11/26, 11/28, or 12/03. No late homework permitted.

All projects are due 7:30pm Tuesday or Thursday before class. There are about 2.5 weeks between project due dates.

• Project 0 Thursday 09/19 09/24 7:30PM
• Project 1 Tuesday 10/08 10/10 7:30PM
• Project 2 Thursday 10/24 10/29 7:30PM
• Project 3 Tuesday 11/12 11/14 7:30PM
• Project 4 Thursday 11/28 12/03 7:30PM

The final deadline for all late project submissions is Thursday 12/05 7:30PM before the final exam.

Grading

• 60% Programming projects, 5 projects, 12pt each.

  • There are five programming projects, each worth 12pt.

  • Students work individually on the project.

  • Submission must be via release on their GitHub repository in the classroom GitHub organization and remain private. Submission time is determined by time of release on GitHub.

  • Project source code must never be made public.

  • Projects are cumulative

  • Grading scheme

    • 0pt for no release.
    • 1pt for effort.
    • 1pt if it compiles.
    • Remaining 10pt pro-rated by number of tests passed.
    • Half of the tests are public, half are secret.

  • Students may resubmit up to late deadline for regrading (minus late penalties).

  • Late policy: up to two weeks late, 1pt off. 2pt off any time after. Absolute deadline for late projects is 7:30pm day of final (12/05).

• 20% Homework, 25 short homeworks, lowest 5 are dropped, 1pt each.

  • Assigned and submitted via webcourses.

  • Contents will be used for final exam.

  • Effort taken into consideration with correctness.

• 20% Final

  • Questions based on homework, programming projects, and lectures.

• +5% Discretionary and bonus points (bonus projects, participation, effort, etc).

Letter Grades

A >= 90%, B+ >= 87%, B >= 80%, C+ >= 77%, C >= 70%, D >= 60%, F < 60%. (minuses may be used in some cases)

Course Info

Description

Design and development compilers, assemblers, linkers, and loaders. Basic operating systems will be covered as well as brief introductions to advanced topics such as optimization, software security, and program analysis.

Learning Outcomes

This course will provide students an understanding of systems software tools, in particularly the compiler and other tools for processing and executing programming languages. Student will learn both the big picture view of these tools as well as the details of their development. Students will gain both conceptual and practical understanding of the mechanics of these tools. The following include motivational benefits of such study:

• To understand well your development tools and be a better engineer
• To work on large, complex piece of software and gain experience with
  • modularity, apis and invariants
  • incremental improvement
• To think formally about algorithms
• To think practically about working with data structures
• To think about invariants, i.e., pre and post conditions, in large software products.
• To use real-world development tools

Course Materials

Recommended

• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, & Tools, Second Edition by Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman. Addison Wesley, 2007
• The Practice of Programming by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/tpop.webpage/

Supplementary

• Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation by Steven Muchnich. Morgan Kaufman, 1997
• Modern Compiler Implementation in C by Andrew Appel. Cambridge University Press, 1998
• Compiler Construction: Principles and Practice by Kenneth C. Louden, PWS, 1997
• Concepts of Programming Languages, 8th Edition by Robert W. Sebesta. Addison Wesley, 2010.

Core Policy Statements

Academic Integrity

The Center for Academic Integrity (CAI) defines academic integrity as a commitment, even in the face of adversity, to five fundamental values: honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility. From these values flow principles of behavior that enable academic communities to translate ideals into action. http://academicintegrity.org/

UCF Creed: Integrity, scholarship, community, creativity, and excellence are the core values that guide our conduct, performance, and decisions.

1. Integrity: I will practice and defend academic and personal honesty.

2. Scholarship: I will cherish and honor learning as a fundamental purpose of my membership in the UCF community.

3. Community: I will promote an open and supportive campus environment by respecting the rights and contributions of every individual.

4. Creativity: I will use my talents to enrich the human experience.

5. Excellence: I will strive toward the highest standards of performance in any endeavor I undertake.

The following definitions of plagiarism and misuse of sources come from the Council of Writing Program Administrators http://wpacouncil.org/node/9 and have been adopted by UCF's Department of Writing & Rhetoric.

Plagiarism

In an instructional setting, plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else's language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledg­ing its source. This definition applies to texts published in print or on-line, to manuscripts, and to the work of other student writers.

Misuse of Sources

A student who attempts (even if clumsily) to identify and credit his or her source, but who misuses a specific citation format or incorrectly uses quotation marks or other forms of identifying material taken from other sources, has not plagiarized. Instead, such a student should be considered to have failed to cite and document sources appropri­ately.

Responses to Academic Dishonesty, Plagiarism, or Cheating

UCF faculty members have a responsibility for your education and the value of a UCF degree, and so seek to prevent unethical behavior and when necessary respond to infringements of academic integrity. Penalties can include a failing grade in an assignment or in the course, suspension or expulsion from the university, and/or a "Z Designation" on a student's official transcript indicating academic dishonesty, where the final grade for this course will be preceded by the letter Z. For more information about the Z Designation, see http://goldenrule.sdes.ucf.edu/zgrade.

For more information about UCF's Rules of Conduct, see http://www.osc.sdes.ucf.edu/.

Unauthorized Use of Class Materials

There are many fraudulent websites claiming to offer study aids to students but are actually cheat sites. They encourage students to upload course materials, such as test questions, individual assignments, and examples of graded material. Such materials are the intellectual property of instructors, the university, or publishers and may not be distributed without prior authorization. Students who engage in such activity are in violation of academic conduct standards and may face penalties.

Unauthorized Use of Class Notes

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Third parties may be selling class notes from this class without my authorization. Please be aware that such class materials may contain errors, which could affect your performance or grade. Use these materials at your own risk.

In-Class Recording Policy

Outside of the notetaking and recording services offered by Student Accessibility Services, the creation of an audio or video recording of all or part of a class for personal use is allowed only with the advance and explicit written consent of the instructor. Such recordings are only acceptable in the context of personal, private studying and notetaking and are not authorized to be shared with anyone without the separate written approval of the instructor.

Course Accessibility Statement

The University of Central Florida is committed to providing access and inclusion for all persons with disabilities. This syllabus is available in alternate formats upon request. Students with disabilities who need specific access in this course, such as accommodations, should contact the professor as soon as possible to discuss various access options. Students should also connect with Student Accessibility Services (Ferrell Commons, 7F, Room 185, [email protected], phone (407) 823-2371). Through Student Accessibility Services, a Course Accessibility Letter may be created and sent to professors, which informs faculty of potential access and accommodations that might be reasonable.

Campus Safety Statement

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Deployed Active Duty Military Students

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