Master's Compiler Design Course: Build a Compiler Through Five Projects Using Racket
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Master baker tier. Every paragraph earns its place on the tray.
Summary
The article describes a master's-level compiler design course (CIS531) that teaches students to build a compiler through five projects. The course uses the Racket programming language and assumes prior programming knowledge, some C experience, and basic assembly language familiarity. The content outlines the course structure, prerequisites, and learning objectives for those interested in compiler implementation, functional language internals, and practical x86-64 assembly experience.
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CIS531 is a masters-level class on compiler design which assumes that (a) you know how to program, (b) you've had some exposure to C (know about stack allocation, malloc, etc.), and (c) have seen some assembly code.
My class projects are in the Racket programming language, but if you do
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