let me teach you 4 years of physics and now you can build a rocket that goes to the moon. compiler books feel exactly like this, parsing something seems obvious

let me teach you 4 years of physics and now you can build a rocket that goes to the moon. compiler books feel exactly like this, parsing something seems obvious but most compiler books devote 90% of their content to parsing, but how do you convert something from a class to binary code or how do you represent loops and modules, you don't even know where to begin. I figured out parsing pretty quickly and was able to build a working parser in a week, it took me a good few months to grasp converting that to x86 instructions.