This book is intended as a text for a one- or two-semester course in compiler design at the senior undergraduate or introductory graduate level. It can also be used as a self-study and reference book in compiler design. The purpose of this text is to cover the underlying concepts and techniques used in compiler design. Some of these techniques can be used in software engineering or software design.
The reader should have at least one year of experience in programming a high-level language and an assembly language. In addition, a familiarity with elementary data structures and discrete mathematics is a definite asset. The text, however, is reasonably self-contained.