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Compilers: Theory and Practice
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Offered at Georgia Tech as CS 8803
Nanodegree Program
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About this Course
The objective of this course is to learn the theory and practice behind building automatic translators (compilers) for higher level programming languages and to engineer and build key phases of a compiler in Java or C++ for a small language.
Course Cost
Free
Skill Level
intermediate
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Free Course
Compilers: Theory and Practice
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Course Leads
Santosh Pande
Instructor
Catherine Gamboa
Instructor
What You Will Learn
lesson 1
Front End
- Compiler Phases
- Scanners & Parsers
- Semantic Analysis
lesson 2
Middle End
- Syntax Directed Translation
- Control Structures and Back-patching
- Function and Procedure Calls & Runtime Organization
lesson 3
Back-end
- Register Allocation & Instruction Selection
- Code layout and Code Generation
- Brief Introduction to Code Optimization
Prerequisites and Requirements
Good knowledge of data structures and algorithms, good programming skills and ability to write sizeable software in Java or C++. Should be able to work in Linux environment.
See the Technology Requirements for using Udacity.
Why Take This Course
Take this course if you need to develop the skills necessary to work on create compilers and similar tools for modern operating systems and devices.