Pikuma – Compilers, Interpreters & Formal Languages

Create your own programming language by writing an interpreter and a compiler from scratch.

This course is designed to be a beginner-friendly introduction to compilers. As we evolve, we will incrementally put together an interpreter for a very simple scripting language.

• Lexical analysis
• Syntax analysis
• Parsing algorithms
• Intermediate representation (AST)
• Formal languages & grammars
• BNF notation & syntax diagrams
• Identifying and reporting errors
• Code generation
• Writing our own VM
• Emitting opcodes and instructions
• Type checking
• LLVM IR
• Simple code optimization
• …and much, much more!