I've always been interested in making things that make other things, and compilers definitely fall into that category.
In the middle of the second assignment, the parser. It's a lot to consume, but I feel like the theory isn't particularly difficult, about half my learning has been getting to know the tools (so far: flex, bison). I've also spent an annoying amount of time on updating and configuring the VM, I guess that's a bonus lesson in Linux sysadmin-ing. It's also my first experience with C++, which seems useful to know.
I also started this course on web security: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs253/. The first assignment was a lot of fun, the material is fresh, and it definitely seems like very useful information for anyone in the web stack.
I'm also learning a bunch of new cooking recipes, but who isn't nowadays.
Thanks for your recommendation !I am pretty interested in web security partly because I want to start my own start up in two years, and I want to make sure my customer's data is safe.
I am also interested in compilers but just can't bear C++, so I plan to take this course :https://www.coursera.org/learn/nand2tetris2.
It doesn't limit languages you can use .So I plan to write the compiler by Racket(which can also sharpen my functional programming skill).
TA'd this class! It's a great intro, if a little dated. The best assignment, in my opinion, is the last (code generation). It's also the easiest to do independently, since you can just see if your compiled programs produce the same output as the ones compiled with the reference compiler.
The class assignments are missing a more thorough look at optimization. Might have to rely more on the lectures for that.
I've always been interested in making things that make other things, and compilers definitely fall into that category.
In the middle of the second assignment, the parser. It's a lot to consume, but I feel like the theory isn't particularly difficult, about half my learning has been getting to know the tools (so far: flex, bison). I've also spent an annoying amount of time on updating and configuring the VM, I guess that's a bonus lesson in Linux sysadmin-ing. It's also my first experience with C++, which seems useful to know.
I also started this course on web security: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs253/. The first assignment was a lot of fun, the material is fresh, and it definitely seems like very useful information for anyone in the web stack.
I'm also learning a bunch of new cooking recipes, but who isn't nowadays.