I believe this course was developed by Alex Aiken during his time at Berkeley. I assume he brought the material with him when he moved over to Stanford. The Coo

I believe this course was developed by Alex Aiken during his time at Berkeley. I assume he brought the material with him when he moved over to Stanford. The Cool language as a didactic tool seems a little dated now. When I took the Coursera version of the course a few years ago, Aiken distributed the Cool compiler development environment as a VirtualBox image, which was a nice cross-platform solution at the time. Today, Docker would probably be the preferred approach. I didn't get very far in the course because I lacked the necessary C++ skills (and the motivation to learn them).