COMP_SCI 322: Compiler Construction VIEW ALL COURSE TIMES AND SESSIONS Prerequisites COMP_SCI 213: Introduction to Computer Systems, CS 214: Data Structures and Data Management (or equivalent) ...

Meet Grace Hopper, a computer programmer who developed the first compiler.

He has the LCC compiler working on the Gigatron. This is technically a C compiler for a computer without a CPU, or a computer that is entirely CPU. Either way you look at it, this is impressive.

Computers don't understand English or even programming languages. What's needed is translation software, and it comes in different forms: compilers, interpreters and bytecode.

Every computer programmer has a copious pile of opinions about how their programming language of choice could be improved. Who doesn't want more syntactic sugar, better runtime performance, and ...