We wrote a toy Oberon compiler in second year computer science. I think it was really useful as an exercise, but it was time consuming and this contributed to m

We wrote a toy Oberon compiler in second year computer science. I think it was really useful as an exercise, but it was time consuming and this contributed to me dropping computer science due to the work load and practicals counting more than 50% and tests less than 50%. For what it is worth, I think you can emulate this if you really want to (and have enough time); it may make you feel more confident in the topic. But to be clear, we did not do anything fancy. The project was done in C and wasn't done "cleverly". What I mean by that is that it (at least our compiler) was very straightforward. Read in sentences based on seperators; remove whitespace; identify keywords; set/identify variables; and a few steps later execute the commands (in C I think, we only did assembly after this).