This collection of exercises for a course in programming language translation (and their solutions) was devised to support and supplement the material in my book "Compiling with C# and Java". (Addison-Wesley, 2005. ISBN 0 321 26360 X)

The material is heavily based on the use of a compiler generator Coco/R, developed at the University of Linz by Hanspeter Mössenböck, and which is now freely available in implementations for many programming languages. The present collection has been developed in C# and Java, but incorporates material devised over some 20 years, including some developed earlier in Pascal, Modula-2 and C++, but now converted to C# and Java.

Follow the links below to read the text of the problems for each section.

• HTML PDF     Chapter 01     Introduction (course layout)

• HTML PDF     Chapter 02     Installing Coco/R

• HTML PDF     Chapter 03     Familiarity with the PVM

• HTML PDF     Chapter 04     Developing Cocol grammars

• HTML PDF     Chapter 05     Adding actions to Cocol grammars

• HTML PDF     Chapter 06     Extending the level 1 Parva language and compiler

• HTML PDF     Chapter 07     The 24 hour examination model

• HTML PDF     Chapter 08     A very simple mixed language compiler

• HTML PDF     Chapter 09     A truth table generator

• HTML PDF     Chapter 10     A toy Fortran compiler for the PVM

• HTML PDF     Chapter 11     ParvaDoc - a documentation generator for Parva

• HTML PDF     Chapter 12     A Parva to Java high level compiler

• HTML PDF     Chapter 13     A Forth-like assembler for the PVM (stage 1)

• HTML PDF     Chapter 14     A Forth-like assembler for the PVM (stage 2)

• HTML PDF     Chapter 15     An assembler for a single accumulator 8-bit machine (stage 1)

• HTML PDF     Chapter 16     An assembler for a single accumulator 8-bit machine (stage 2)

• HTML PDF     Chapter 17     Adding enumeration types to Parva (stage 1)

• HTML PDF     Chapter 18     Adding enumeration types to Parva (stage 2)

• HTML PDF     Chapter 19     Pretty-printers and high level translators (Parva/Mikra) (stage 1)

• HTML PDF     Chapter 20     Pretty-printers and high level translators (Parva/Mikra) (stage 2)

• HTML PDF     Chapter 21     A multifunction calculator (stage 1)

• HTML PDF     Chapter 22     A multifunction calculator (stage 2)

• HTML PDF     Chapter 23     Analysing student examination performance (stage 1)

• HTML PDF     Chapter 24     Analysing student examination performance (stage 2)

• HTML PDF     Chapter 25     Adding class types to Parva (stage 1)

• HTML PDF     Chapter 26     Adding class types to Parva (stage 2)

• HTML PDF     Chapter 27     Adding Turtle Graphics to Parva (stage 1)

• HTML PDF     Chapter 28     Adding Turtle Graphics to Parva (stage 2)

• HTML PDF     Chapter 29     Adding set types to Parva (stage 1)

• HTML PDF     Chapter 30     Adding set types to Parva (stage 2)

• HTML PDF     Chapter 31     Boolean expressions and truth tables (stage 1)

• HTML PDF     Chapter 32     Boolean expressions and truth tables (stage 2)

• HTML PDF     Appendix 1     Coco/R user manual (PDF only)

• HTML PDF     Appendix 2     Assorted Coco/R pitfalls and tips

• HTML PDF     Appendix 3     C# support libraries developed for use in these exercises

• HTML PDF     Appendix 4     Java support libraries developed for use in these exercises