On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 12:40 PM Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 09:46:21AM -0600, Tim Meehan wrote: > I found a book by Dick Grune et al to be somewhat lighter than the dragon > book. Looking online, I discoered I was thinking of the first edition. I > haven't seen the second edition, but I'd guess the second edition would be > similar, though it has rather more material: > > https://dickgrune.com/Books/MCD_1st_Edition/ > https://dickgrune.com/Books/MCD_2nd_Edition/ > > When I saw the first edition, I decided that if I were teaching an > introductory course in compilers, I would use it as textbook. > > I've been fond of https://www.nand2tetris.org/ for a while as a "soup to nuts" overview of computation from the NAND gate up through a simple computer, a simplified assembly language, assembler, compiler, VM, and so on. It's not an advanced text, but it does provide a hands-on bottom-to-top view of the computational world that can help orient someone who is exploring the space. It's also why I keep wondering when I'm going to break down and pick up a little FPGA board for myself and just play. :) Cheers, Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAAGM454t_FNXj8RHTbLuC1pe-14i-rF%3DyQ_B%2BmSvoE4DGUyMAw%40mail.gmail.com.
