Parsing Algorithms

4h 27m 33s
English
Paid

Parsing or syntactic analysis is one of the first stages in designing and implementing a compiler. A well-designed syntax of your programming language is a big motivation why users would prefer and choose exactly your language.

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The problem with “parsers theory” in classic compiler schools and books is that this theory is often considered as “too advanced”, going right into complicated formal descriptions from the Theory of Computation and formal grammars. As a result students may lose an interest in building a compiler already at parsing stage.

The opposite problem often seen in describing a parser is a superficial approach describing only manual (usually recursive descent) parsing, leaving the students with issues understanding the actual techniques behind the automated parsers.

I believe this deep dive into the parsing theory should be combined together with a hands-on approach, which goes in parallel and allows seeing all the learned theoretical material on practice.

In the Essentials of Parsing (aka Parsing Algorithms) class we dive into different aspects of the parsing theory, describing in detail the LL and LR parsers. However at the same time to make the learning process and understanding easy and fun, we build in parallel an automatic parser for a full programming language, similar to JavaScript or Python, from scratch.

After this class not only you will be able to use a parser generator to build parsers for programming languages, but will also understand how the parser generators work under the hood themselves.

Implementing a parser for a programing language would also make your practical usage of other programming languages more professional.

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# Title Duration
1 Formal grammars, context-free 12:13
2 Grammar derivations 12:51
3 Ambiguous grammars 09:20
4 Syntax tool | Letter 13:42
5 Abstract Syntax Trees 12:59
6 Backtracking parser 13:32
7 Left-recursion and Left-factoring 11:15
8 Predictive Recursive descent parser 06:15
9 LL(1) parsing: First & Follow sets 21:28
10 Construction of LL(1) parsing table 12:21
11 LL(1) parsing algorithm 10:56
12 Back to practice: Statements | Blocks 13:14
13 Function Declarations 15:59
14 LR parsing: Canonical Collection of LR-items 16:26
15 LR parsing table: LR(0) and SLR(1) 12:30
16 CLR(1) and LALR(1) parsing tables 16:18
17 LR(1) parsing algorithm 11:48
18 Control structures: If-statement 14:18
19 Variables | Assignment 07:52
20 Function calls | Unary expression 05:48
21 Member expression | Iteration 06:33
22 OOP | Final parser 09:55

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