Dmitry Soshnikov
How programming languages work under the hood? What’s the difference between compiler and interpreter? What is a virtual machine, and JIT–compiler? And what about the difference between functional and imperative programming?
There are so many questions when it comes to implementing a programming language!
The problem with “compiler classes” in school is they usually are presented as some “hardcore rocket science” which is only for advanced engineers.
Moreover, classic compiler books start from the least significant topic, such as Lexical analysis, going right away deep down to the theoretical aspects of formal grammars. And by the time of implementing a first Tokenizer module, students simply lose an interest to the topic, not having a chance to actually start implementing a programing language itself. And all this is spread to a whole semester of messing with tokenizers and BNF grammars, without understanding an actual semantics of programming languages.
I believe we should be able to build and understand a full programming language semantics, end–to–end, in 4–6 hours — with a content going straight to the point, showed in live coding session as pair–programming, and described in a comprehensible way.
In the Essentials of Interpretations class we focus specifically on runtime semantics, and build a interpreter for a programming language very similar to JavaScript or Python.
Instructor Details
Courses : 3
Specification: Building an Interpreter from scratch
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| Price | $12.99 |
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| Duration | 3 hours |
| Year | 2020 |
| Level | Intermediate |
| Language | English |
| Certificate | Yes |
| Quizzes | No |
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Gustavo –
This course is amazing! Dmitry goes straight to the point and packs a lot of information in really concise videos. The code is simple and readable, and the production quality is top notch. If you’re like me and don’t like having your time wasted on 30min videos that over explain simple concepts, this is definitely for you. My only suggestion: I’m coding this in TypeScript, and having to think about the types of inputs and outputs really made things click, even if I took way more time to have working code than I would had I written in JS. I’d say it would be a nice upgrade if, in some future version of this course, Dmitry switched to TS.
Yuyo Hakusho –
Since there’s no source code for each video, progressing is slow, I keep focusing in copying the source code from the videos instead of understanding.