Cool: a portable project for teaching compiler construction

  • Authors:
  • Alexander Aiken

  • Affiliations:
  • EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGPLAN Notices
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

The compiler course is a fixture of undergraduate computer science education. Most CS programs offer a course on compilers that includes a substantial project where students write a compiler for a small programming language. The project often serves two distinct purposes: it teaches something about language design and compiler implementation, and it gives students the experience of building a substantial software system. A compiler project is the most complex software engineering task many students complete in an undergraduate program.