Making Compiler Design Relevant for Students

Making Compiler Design Relevant for Students

As the author mentioned in this articule, compiler desing is a very usefull subject in all of the computer science student, despite off is not very common that this topic became an actual professional career, this is because compiler desing is a very speccialized topic.

I make this statement considering the rate of people that actually make money from this kind of jobs, and also considering that in the buisness world there is not a big actual work in this area, I could say this is because this area does not creates a service or product for end users funcionality.

The Auhtor considers that is very usefull to take this topic in computer science careers, not beacuse of making student compiler designers for their living, but for making student learn the practices and logic compilers design have to apply those in the day to day coding or architecture systems design.

Because this way of thinking may help engieniers to give a more complete way of approaching computers problems. Not beacuse the fact you know how to make a compiler, more like when we complete the course we are going to be able to look problems in a very different way, and this help help us to design better solutions and processes.

Before reading this article, I really could not have beign able to consider this course a very usefull subject for my professional career, even more that I really do not planned to end as a compiler architecture, but now I can see all the things I could take advantage of this course in order to become a better programmer, architecture or engienier for my professional life.

References

“Making Compiler Design Relevant for Students who will (Most Likely) Never Design a Compiler“ by Saumya Debray.