Or if, like mine, your university didn't offer a compilers course while you were a student: Coursera has a compilers course offered by Stanford. For something

Or if, like mine, your university didn't offer a compilers course while you were a student: Coursera has a compilers course offered by Stanford. For something a little less formal, Jack Crenshaw's "Let's Build a Compiler" is a good introduction: http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/ http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/ Compilers aren't black magic, but anyone who's never written one seems to think they are.