Updated on Sep, 2023
Language - English
This has been a very informative lecture, it explains a lot of the questions I had on how to write and implement my own processing language in a java application I would like to develop. The course does run fast, and I would say is for a more senior programmer, and one may have to repeat watching
Building a Parser from Scratch
Understand the underlying theory behind recursive descent parser for a programming language
Course Description
Parsing or syntactic analysis is one of the first stages in designing and implementing a compiler. A well-designed syntax of your programming language is a big motivation why users would prefer and choose your language.
Recursive descent parsers are the group of parsers that are widely used in practice in many production programming languages. In contrast with automated parsing algorithms, the manual implementation allows having full control over the parsing process and handling complex constructs, which may not be possible in the automatic parsers.
Besides, implementing a full manual parser from scratch allows understanding and seeing this process from inside, demystifying internal structures, and turning building parsers into an interesting engineering task.
In the Building a Parser from Scratch class, we dive into pure practical implementation, building and learning different aspects of parsers.
In this course, you will learn the concept of recursive descent parsing, understand what is tokenizer and how it cooperates with the parser module, learn what is Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) and how to have different formats of these ASTs, what is “lookahead” and predictive parsing, and eventually build a parser for a full programming language, similar to Java or JavaScript.
Goals
What will you learn in this course:
- Learn about recursive descent parsers
- Learn about top-down parsing
- Learn about Abstract Syntax Trees (AST)
- Learn about tokenizer and tokens
- Learn about different AST formats
- Learn about regular expressions specification
Prerequisites
What are the prerequisites for this course?
- The prerequisites for this course are the basic data structures and algorithms: trees, lists, traversal, and regular expressions.
Curriculum
Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course
Basic Expressions and Tokenizer
3 Lectures
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Tokenizer | Parser
13:56
13:56
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Numbers | Strings
10:37
10:37
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From State Machines to Regular Expressions
11:11
11:11
Program Structure
4 Lectures
Control Flow and Functions
7 Lectures
Object-Oriented Programming
4 Lectures
Instructor Details
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