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If you're looking to use powerful, higher level tools rather than building everything yourself, going through the projects and readings for <a href="http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/CS652/CS652+Home" rel="noreferrer">this course</a> is a pretty good option. It's a languages course by the author of the Java parser engine ANTLR. You can get the book for the course as a PDF from <a href="http://www.pragprog.com/titles/tpantlr/the-definitive-antlr-reference" rel="noreferrer">the Pragmatic Programmers</a>. The course goes over the standard compiler compiler stuff that you'd see elsewhere: parsing, types and type checking, polymorphism, symbol tables, and code generation. Pretty much the only thing that isn't covered is optimizations. The final project is a program that <a href="http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/CS652/C+subset+compiler" rel="noreferrer">compiles a subset of C</a>. Because you use tools like ANTLR and LLVM, it's feasible to write the entire compiler in a single day (I have an existence proof of this, though I do mean ~24 hours). It's heavy on practical engineering using modern tools, a bit lighter on theory. LLVM, by the way, is simply fantastic. Many situations where you might normally compile down to assembly, you'd be much better off compiling to <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html" rel="noreferrer">LLVM's Intermediate Representation</a> instead. It's higher level, cross platform, and LLVM is quite good at generating optimized assembly from it.
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