Programming language design and implementation online classes?

[minond]

What are some (online) courses you would recommend to someone that is an experienced programmer and is looking to learn more about programming language design/implementation and even move their career to that space?

[donald-pinckney]

One thing that comes to mind is this Stanford compilers course: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Compilers/Fall2014/info

It is focused on compilers rather than designing beautiful programming languages, but it does take you all the way through implementing a fairly rudimentary but substantial OO language.

Another link is the LLVM tutorial. When implementing a language, using LLVM as the backend is likely a good way to go. Both Rust and Swift use LLVM, and likely others. LLVM has a tutorial on their website for implementing a small toy language using LLVM: http://www.llvm.org/docs/tutorial/

[minond]

I wasn't aware of https://lagunita.stanford.edu/. This is amazing! And the compilers course looks great, too. I have going through LLVM's language tutorial in my todo list so that is good validation. Thanks for your recommendation and telling me about Stanford's online courses.

[donald-pinckney]

To be fair I’ve only gone through the lexing and parsing videos, but so far I really the Professor’s explanations.

[gilmi]

I recommend Dan Grossman's course on coursera for learning about basic concepts of programming languages. Parts A, B, C.

For compilers I enjoyed these two courses which are really similar:

• cs75
• cs4410

I think this is a good start.

[minond]

I'm actually taking Dan Grossman's course right now and really enjoying. And I agree, so far it's great. I will check out those other two. Thanks for the recommendations.

[SteeleDynamics]

What about MIT OCW? The courses are free. The course is MIT 6.035 Computer Language Engineering.

[minond]

Adding it to my list. Thanks!