Compiler construction in an undergraduate course: some difficulties

We describe an implementation of an Oberon0 compiler using the techniques proposed in the CoCoCo project. The compiler is constructed out of a collection of pre-compiled, statically type-checked language-definition fragments written in Haskell. Oberon0 ...

For two years, we have been teaching a quarter-long compiler construction course where students implement an interpreter for a variant of the XML query language XQuery. Our goal is to motivate students' interest in the course by exposing them to an ...

This paper presents an unusual programming language, textttklx, illustrating the type of compiler construction projects the author uses successfully to accompany a mostly traditional lecture on compilers.The target processor of textttklx is the ...