On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 12:40 PM Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. 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.
