Making Compiler Design Relevant for Students

This article at first mentions how unlikely we are, as university students, to design a compiler by the time we’ve finished the compilers course, I agree about that, even though I believe this course is really important to us due the relevance it has with our major, we might not design any compiler after this, but the important thing is that we’re about to design at least one course so we can understand how compilers work.

So, the article also says that we don’t give this course the relevance it we should, I can’t totally agree that, since I’ve heard that this course is one of the most difficult in all the whole curricula, I think all of us (I hope so…) will be doing our best, especially since most of us are about to graduate. What I’m expecting this time is to have fun with these projects and not only to accomplish a passing grade, since there’s a lot of material we can learn, not just for now, but material that could actually change the way we write or design code.

At the end the article explains how having a deeper understanding of how translations work, and the problems translation causes, help us to be able to apply different techniques to this or how we can use different tools to develop and design compilers, this way we can avoid translation problems and we can get to code in a faster way so we can be more efficient and productive.

This paper gives us an overview about compilers, I don’t feel necessary to write about that, since that’s what we’re going to discuss this semester and we all can read it, so I believe it’s better to give an opinion about this, and not just explain what I just read.

Introducing myself

Hi! My name is Rosario Madariaga and I'm 24 years old.

What I expect from this course is to completely understand how a compiler work and the process of how it is made, and since we're using C# this will be a good opportunity to get to know this programming language.


My hobbies are ballet (Which I'm not currently practicing.), I really really like learning new languages, right know I'm learning Japanese, German and Portuguese, and actually at this moment of my life I'm really interested in learning Danish, but learning four at the same time would be just too much, anyway, I also like video games, and hanging out with my brother. :)

 
Some TV shows that I've enjoyed recently are Once Upon a Time and Pretty Little Liars, and about movies I'd say Maleficent and TMNT, the only books I've read recently are about networking. And music definitely would be Fall Out Boy, Paramore, New Politics, Twenty One Pilots and Panic! at the Disco.