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Building an Interpreter from Scratch

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Building an Interpreter from Scratch

Build and understand a full programming language semantics.

updated on icon Updated on Mar, 2024

language icon Language - English

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category icon Development,Programming Languages

Lectures -18

Duration -2.5 hours

4.6

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Course Description

How do programming languages work under the hood? What’s the difference between compiler and interpreter? What is a virtual machine and JIT-compiler? And what about the difference between functional and imperative programming?

There are so many questions when it comes to implementing a programming language!

In this course, we will learn about compilers and AST interpreters and virtual machines. We will further explore basic expressions and variables in interpreters and learn about variables and environments. We will also explore built-in and native functions, user-defined functions, and call stack and recursive calls. Lastly, we will learn about OOP, class inheritance, and code isolation.

By the end of the course, we will implement a full AST interpreter for our programming language.

Goals

What will you learn in this course:

  • Build a programing language from scratch
  • Learn about AOT and JIT-compilers and Transpilers
  • Learn about Bytecode, LLVM, stack-machines
  • Learn about call-stack and activation records
  • Learn about interpreters and compilers
  • Learn about AST-interpreters and virtual machines

Prerequisites

What are the prerequisites for this course?

  • The only prerequisite for this class is basic data structures and algorithms: trees, lists, traversal.
Building an Interpreter from Scratch

Curriculum

Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course

Compilers Crash Course
3 Lectures
  • play icon Parsers, ASTs, Interpreters, and Compilers 12:06 12:06
  • play icon AST Interpreters and Virtual Machines 12:01 12:01
  • play icon Compilers: AOT, JIT, Transpiler 12:27 12:27
Interpreters: Basic Expressions and Variables
6 Lectures
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Functions and Functional Programming
5 Lectures
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Object-Oriented Programming
4 Lectures
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Packt Publishing

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Working towards that vision, we have published over 6,500 books and videos so far, providing IT professionals with the actionable knowledge they need to get the job done - whether that's specific learning on an emerging technology or optimizing key skills in more established tools.

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Good, understandable step by step explanations and construction, but unfortunately no example code is available.

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