Akim Demaille, Roland Levillain, Benoît Perrot. A Set of Tools to Teach Compiler Construction. In the proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE) http://www.iticse08.fi.upm.es/ Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain June 30-July 2, 2008

Compiler construction is a widely used software engineering exercise, but because most students will not be compiler writers, care must be taken to make it relevant in a core curriculum. Auxiliary tools, such as generators and interpreters, often hinder the learning: students have to fight tool idiosyncrasies, mysterious errors, and other poorly educative issues. We introduce a set of tools especially designed or improved for compiler construction educative projects in C++. We also provide suggestions about new approaches to compiler construction. We draw guidelines from our experience to make tools suitable for education purposes.

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  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1384271.1384291.
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