It's been about 4 years since I took a compilers course (from OMSCS, graduate program) and still shutter ... it was, hands down, the most difficult (yet rewarding) classes I've taken.
Based on another reply I can’t tell if there’s a clever window-based pun that I’m missing. If not, I think you want “shudder” and not “shutter” here. I’m sorry if I just ruined the joke.
I think there is a million ways to make a compilers course.
The course I did was organized perfectly with big parts of compiler boiler plate already written, and I only had to implement parser/lexer rules and the translation of language structures into assembly instructions.
Also it was a compiler for a language designed just for this course with the intention of it being specifically easy to write a compiler for it and not programming.
Without this I can imagine it being a painful experience
I took that course too and ruined my life...by making me think writing a compiler could be fun. The course itself was worth the money I paid for the program.
