Making Compiler Construction Projects Relevant to Core Curriculums
From LRDE
- Authors
- Akim Demaille
- Where
- Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITICSE'05)
- Place
- Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Monte da PacaritaPortugal
- Type
- inproceedings
- Projects
- Tiger
- Date
- 2005-02-06
Abstract
Having 300 students a year implement a compiler is a debatable enterprise, since the industry will certainly not recruit them for this competence. Yet we made that decision five years ago, for reasons not related to compiler construction. We detail these motivations, the resulting compiler design, and how we manage the assignment. The project meets its goals, since the majority of former students invariably refer to it as the project that taught them the most.
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Bibtex (lrde.bib)
@InProceedings{ demaille.05.iticse,
author = {Akim Demaille},
title = {Making Compiler Construction Projects Relevant to Core
Curriculums},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference on Innovation
and Technology in Computer Science Education
({ITICSE'05})},
year = 2005,
address = {Universidade Nova de {L}isboa, {M}onte da {P}acarita,
{P}ortugal},
month = jun,
isbn = {1-59593-024-8},
pages = {266--270},
abstract = {Having 300 students a year implement a compiler is a
debatable enterprise, since the industry will certainly
\emph{not} recruit them for this competence. Yet we made
that decision five years ago, for reasons not related to
compiler construction. We detail these motivations, the
resulting compiler design, and how we manage the
assignment. The project meets its goals, since the majority
of former students invariably refer to it as \emph{the}
project that taught them the most.}
}