This course is for experienced programmers. It uses (very basic) JavaScript as the language for implementing the compiler, so if you want to do the exercises, you’ll need to be able to write JS. The course also starts with a compiler that turns source code into data structures, so although the course doesn’t require that you know how to do that, it also won’t be covering how to do it.

In this course, you’ll learn how to build a static type-checker and binary machine code generator! Along the way, you’ll learn how to statically detect naming errors, as well as the basics of making a code formatter. This course doesn’t cover how source code gets parsed, or how interpreters work, but other courses cover those concepts (such as the “Building Your Own Programming Language” course).