“Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.” “What I cannot create, I do not understand.” — Richard Feynman

Compilers

Courses

Lexing, parsing, IR, and codegen — building a language end to end.

4 skills 0 questions ← whole tech tree

Content for this course is still being written. For now, explore the skill map below — every node links to its full page.

Skill map

Each node is a skill; an arrow means "learn this first." Deep-dive links go to the full pages.

The Pipeline…

Lex → parse → codegen: the classical compiler stages.

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deep dive ↓Compilers
A C Compiler in Python…

Build a growing subset of C targeting x86-64.

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deep dive ↓C Compiler in Python
Lexing & Tokens…

Turn source text into a token stream.

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deep dive ↓The smallest C program
Parsing & the AST…

Build an abstract syntax tree from tokens.

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deep dive ↓Unary operators