Introduction: Language Processors, The structure of Compiler, The evolution of Programming Languages, The science of Building a Compiler, Applications of Compiler Technology, Programming Language Basics.

A Simple Syntax Directed Translator: Introduction, Syntax Definition, Syntax Directed Translation, Parsing.

Lexical Analysis: The Role of Lexical Analyzer, Input buffering, Specification of Tokens, Recognition of Tokens, The lexical Analyzer Generator Lex.

Syntax Analysis: Introduction, Context Free Grammars, Writing a Grammar.

Top-Down Parsing: Recursive Descent Parsing, First and Follow, LL(1) Grammars.

Bottom Up Parsing: Reductions, Handle Pruning, Shift Reduce Parsing.

Introduction to LR Parsing: Simple LR, LR Parsing Algorithm, Construction of SLR parsing Tables, Viable Prefixes, Syntax Directed Definitions, Evaluation Orders for SDD.

Intermediate-Code Generation: Variants of Syntax Trees, Three Address Code, Types and Declarations. Control Flow.

Code generation: Issues in the Design of a Code Generator, The target language.