Compiler Construction as an Effective Application to Teach Object-Oriented Programming

Authors

Akim Demaille, Roland Levillain

Work group

The seventh “Killer Examples” workshop, Worked Examples for Sound OO Pedagogy, at OOPSLA'08

Place

Nashville, USA

Type

misc

Projects

Tiger

Keywords

LRDE

Date

2008-09-15

Abstract

Compiler construction, a course feared by most studentsand a competence seldom needed in the industry. Yet we claim that compiler construction is wonderful topic that benefits from virtually all the computer-science topics. In this paper we show in particular why compiler construction is a killer example for Object-Oriented Programmingproviding a unique opportunity for students to understand what it is, what it can be used for, and how it works.

Documents

• Paper

Bibtex (lrde.bib)

@Misc{		  demaille.08.kex,
  author	= {Akim Demaille and Roland Levillain},
  title		= {Compiler Construction as an Effective Application to Teach
		  Object-Oriented Programming},
  howpublished	= {The seventh ``Killer Examples'' workshop, Worked Examples
		  for Sound OO Pedagogy, at OOPSLA'08},
  address	= {Nashville, USA},
  month		= oct,
  year		= 2008,
  note		= {Oral presentation},
  abstract	= {Compiler construction, a course feared by most students,
		  and a competence seldom needed in the industry. Yet we
		  claim that compiler construction is wonderful topic that
		  benefits from virtually all the computer-science topics. In
		  this paper we show in particular why compiler construction
		  is a killer example for Object-Oriented Programming,
		  providing a unique opportunity for students to understand
		  what it is, what it can be used for, and how it works.}
}