Topics for COSC170 midterm exam

The exam is in class on Monday, Mar 7.

General outline of compiler structure
   Scanner -> Parser -> Semantic Checker ->
     Code Generator (or Evaluator)
Grammars, derivations
Parse trees
Ambiguous grammars
Syntax directed translation
Associated attributes
Semantic actions
Recursive descent parser
Use of symbol table
Tokens, lexemes, patterns
Using JLex to specify a scanner
   Regular Expressions for patterns
   returning tokens and attributes
   ignoring comments and white space
   state states (e.g. COMMENT)
LL(1) (predictive) parse table
FIRST and FOLLOW sets