2022-Make-Interpreter-Rust

2022-Make-Interpreter-Rust is the material(lecture notes, examples and assignments) repository for making an interpreter course. I'll teach online using Discord, Zoom or Google Meet. Note that examples and assignments in this repository uses Rust language.

Book

• English: Writing An Interpreter In Go (Thorsten Ball, 2018)

• Korean: 밑바닥부터 만드는 인터프리터 (인사이트, 2021)

Optional Readings

• Crafting Interpreters (Genever Benning, 2021)
• Build Your Own Programming Language (Packt Publishing, 2021)
• Engineering: A Compiler (Morgan Kaufmann, 2011)
• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (Addison Wesley, 2006)

Contents

• Week 0 (3/27) [Lecture]
  • Introduction
• Week 1 (3/27) [Lecture] [Assignment] [Solution]
  • A Tour of Rust, Part 1
  • Assignment #1
• Week 2 (4/10) [Lecture] [Assignment] [Solution]
  • A Tour of Rust, Part 2
  • Assignment #2
• Week 3 (5/22) [Code]
  • Lexing, Part 1
    • Lexical Analysis
    • Defining Tokens
    • The Lexer, Part 1
    • First REPL
• Week 4 (6/5) [Code] [Assignment]
  • Lexing, Part 2
    • The Lexer, Part 2
    • Extensions
  • Assignment #3
• Week 5 (6/19)
  • Parsing
    • Parsers
    • Statements
  • Assignment #4
• Week 6 (TBA)
  • Parsing
    • Expressions
    • Read-Parse-Print-Loop
  • Assignment #5
• Week 7 (TBA)
  • Evaluation
    • Giving Meaning to Symbols
    • Strategies of Evaluation
    • A Tree-Walking Interpreter
    • Representing Objects
    • Evaluating Expressions
  • Assignment #6
• Week 8 (TBA)
  • Evaluation
    • Conditionals
    • Return Statements
    • Error Handling
    • Bindings & The Environment
    • Functions & Function Calls
  • Assignment #7
• Week 9 (TBA)
  • Extensions
    • Data Types & Functions
    • Strings
    • Built-in Functions
  • Assignment #8
• Week 10 (TBA)
  • Extensions
    • Array
    • Hashes
  • Assignment #9

How To Contribute

Contributions are always welcome, either reporting issues/bugs or forking the repository and then issuing pull requests when you have completed some additional coding that you feel will be beneficial to the main project. If you are interested in contributing in a more dedicated capacity, then please contact me.

Contact

You can contact me via e-mail (utilForever at gmail.com). I am always happy to answer questions or help with any issues you might have, and please be sure to share any additional work or your creations with me, I love seeing what other people are making.

License

The class is licensed under the MIT License:

Copyright © 2022 Chris Ohk.

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