TA'd this class! It's a great intro, if a little dated. The best assignment, in my opinion, is the last (code generation). It's also the easiest to do independe

TA'd this class! It's a great intro, if a little dated. The best assignment, in my opinion, is the last (code generation). It's also the easiest to do independently, since you can just see if your compiled programs produce the same output as the ones compiled with the reference compiler. The class assignments are missing a more thorough look at optimization. Might have to rely more on the lectures for that.