Re: compilers, in a nutshell

ellard@endor.harvard.edu (Dan Ellard) writes:


>If you had a six hours of lecture time to discuss compilers, what would
>you cover?


I think that is hardly enough time to brush on the subject, but well,
if you have to.


But first, what do the students know when they enter this course?


I consider it important that you say something about the things
compilers work on and with: programs, the programming language and the
underlying model of the language. And also how a compiler deals with
these concepts.


>My current outline (which is very rough) looks like:


I would add:


>Lecture 1
>1. What is a compiler?
1a. Programming languages and the meaning of programs
>2. Lexical analysis
>3. Parsing ...


>Lecture 2
>1. Intermediate representations.
>2. Type checking / inference.
2. Type checking / inference / semantics


>Lecture 3 ...
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