All assignments in CS 473 will be around the Cardinal language, which is a C-like made-up language. The language specification is available below.

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Assignment 0

Get familiar with the process to work and submit your work

Released Aug 25th 2025

Due Sep 6th 2025

Assignment 1

Lexer flex

Released Aug 27th 2025

Due Sep 13th 2025

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Assignment 2

Parser yacc / bison

Released Sep 17th 2025

Due Sep 27th 2025

Assignment 3

Semantic analysis: Symbols and Type Checking

Released Oct 1st 2025

First half Due Oct 11th 2025

Second half Due Oct 18th 2025

Assignment 4

Intermediate Representation

Released Oct 22nd 2025

First half Due Nov 1st 2025

Second half Due Nov 8th 2025

Assignment 5

MIPS code emission and Compiler Extensions

Released Nov 12th 2025

First half Due Nov 22nd 2025

Second half Due Dec 6th 2025