CSE 421Prereq: CSE 331 and CSE 341
CSE 421: Compiler Design
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- Lexical analysis, parsing, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, optimization, and code generation. Construction of a working compiler for a subset language.
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- Computer Science and Engineering
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Professors who have taught CSE 421
- Asif Imran
- Bina Ramamurthy
- Farshad Ghanei
- Geoffrey Challen
- Tevfik Kosar
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