Comment by Locke1689

Not only that, but the dragon book is terrible.

To quote my adviser, "writing a parser from scratch has no value except as a character building exercise."

Anyone who wanted to write their own parser should probably just use a packrat parser (I find it much simpler).

Whoever is organizing this course, frankly, is either way out of their depth or holds their 1985 compilers course in far too high esteem.