Fall 2026

Construction of Compilers

Covers principles of programming language design, compilation, static analysis, profiling, and code generation.

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The course was rated as very easy by one historical reviewer.

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COMPSCI 701

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  • Graduate/professional standing

Professors

Fall 2026

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Historical reviews of Susan Horwitz: Susan Horwitz is described as a great professor who delivered a course that students loved. Her teaching strengths include high quality instruction that resulted in a positive student experience.

SUSAN HORWITZ is recorded teaching in Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Student experience

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A historical review describes Susan Horwitz as a great professor and the course as enjoyable.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2016: 3.60 GPA, 93.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2018: 3.86 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2020: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

The course was rated as very easy by one historical reviewer.

Historical reviews of Susan Horwitz: The student loved the course under Susan Horwitz.

Topics

  • Principles of compilation
  • Static program analysis
  • Profiling methods
  • Code generation

Skills

  • Static program analysis and code generation.
  • Design and implementation of programming languages.

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-09-07

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Model outputs & technical records
nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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Model & dataset provenance
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  "task_version": "14",
  "output_id": "d2a060fe8356cb505b7761ae03d91f13f27ebeb388ebd6c317ccc1f2c3a12d20",
  "requirements_status": "valid",
  "dataset_revision": "e243353dcb7d79b7247ced91d69443ef4c2a6349",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-07 15:55:43.033547+00:00"
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