Understand the general goals and principle of a compiler, including
the lexer and the parser.
Understand the principles of regular languages (as described
by finite automata and regular expressions) and
of context-free languages (as described by context-gree grammars).
Gain some basic experience developing a compiler with ANTLR.
Understand the basics of code optimization done by compilers.
Assembly and High-level Languages
Understand some of the relations between high-level programming languages and assembly language
Readings
Compiler Overview
The big picture of what a compiler is and does
Lexing
How a compiler (can) perform lexical analysis
Lexing (Practice)
Practice Problems
Parsing
A description of how a compiler (can) perform syntactic analysis