In the Compiler Design class I took 20 years ago, we used the dragon book, which I found to be pretty accessible for someone who already knows how to program (a

In the Compiler Design class I took 20 years ago, we used the dragon book, which I found to be pretty accessible for someone who already knows how to program (at least in an academic setting). The only production (non-educational) compiler we had easily available source code for was gcc, which is not something appropriate for a beginner to learn compiler design and structure from.