Compiler Design

Starting with the front end

This 62-lecture NPTEL course from IIT Kharagpur opens with several introductory sessions that set up what a compiler has to do, then spends a long run of lectures on lexical analysis, the stage where raw source text is broken into tokens. The early schedule shows the course takes the front end of a compiler seriously.

What the listing shows

• A series of lectures labelled as continuations of the introduction, so the overall pipeline gets room before any single stage is examined.
• A dense block on lexical analysis, made up of many continued parts.

The listing stops at lexical analysis, so later stages are not itemized here and are worth checking on the course page before you commit.

Who it suits

Students who have finished a data structures and automata course will find the lexical analysis material a natural next step. Anyone looking only for code generation or optimization should confirm those lectures exist before starting.