Parsing Algorithms

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Understand the different parsing techniques and learn to build a parsing tool from scratch.

Key Features

Learn about the different types of parsers
Build a parser from scratch
Build a syntax tool

What You Will Learn

Learn about compilers and interpreters: build a programming language
Learn about automatic memory management - garbage collectors
Learn about the theory of programming languages
Learn about the Automata theory: build a RegExp machine
Learn about the parser's theory: implement a parser generator

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In this course, we dive into various 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 jаvascript or Python, from scratch.

After this course, not only will you 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 programming language would also make your practical usage of other programming languages more professional.

As we will build a language similar in semantics to jаvascript or Python (the two most popular programming languages today), we will specifically use jаvascript and its elegant multi-paradigm structure, which combines functional programming and class-based and prototype-based OOP.

All resources and code files are placed here:

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Parsing-Algorithms

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