A new approach to teaching a first course in compiler construction

Authors:
Henry D. Shapiro;M. Dennis Mickunas
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Venue:
SIGCSE '76 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE-SIGCUE technical symposium on Computer science and education
Year:
1976

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Abstract

A new approach to teaching a first course in compiler construction is presented, in which the traditional term project is replaced by several smaller, independent, programming assignments. Each assignment is a compiler for a simple language using a different parsing technique. A means is described to augment the programming assignments, so that a greater variety of experiences is provided students. A short review of the literature is included.