CS 131: Compilers - Fall 2026

Course Information

Instructor

Teaching Assistants

Coordinates

  • Time: Tuesday, Thursday, 1:00pm - 2:40pm

  • Location: 1A106, SIST

  • Online discussion: Piazza

  • Homework submission: Blackboard

Homework Projects

  • HW1: Hellocaml!

    • Due: September 27th at 11:59pm

Textbooks and Resources

There is no required textbook for this course. However, you may find the following references useful for digging deeper into course topics.

On Principles of Compiler Construction

  1. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition) by Aho, Lam, Sethi, and Ullman

  2. Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation by Muchnick

  3. Modern Compiler Implementation in ML by Appel

On Types and Type Systems

  1. Types and Programming Languages by Pierce

  2. Advanced Topics in Types and Programming Languages by Pierce et al.

On Program Analysis

  1. Principles of Program Analysis by Nielson, Nielson, and Hankin

On OCaml

  1. Introduction to Objective Caml by Jason Hickey

  2. Real World OCaml by Yaron Minsky, Anil Madhavapeddy, and Jason Hickey