References

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Books

• Modern Compiler Implementation in Java. (The tiger Book.)
  Note that the author has a number of versions of the book (for ML, Java, and C) and multiple editions. We will use the Java (second version) in this course.
• Engineering a compiler. (The ark book.)
• Compiler: principals, techniques, and tools (2nd). (The dragon book.)
• Modern compiler implementation. (The whale book.)
• Introduction to Register allocation.

Java Resources

• The Java Language Specification.
• The Java Virtual Machine Specification.
• The Java API Specification.
• Java Tutorials.
  Note that the above tutorial only covers Java 8, but not the latest Java 22 as we used in this course. Nevertheless, it is still a good starting point to learn Java.

Software and Tools

• Open JDK.
  We will use Java 22 in this course.
• Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK).
  Proprietary software, so use with caution.
• IntelliJ.
  A popular IDE designed in Java, for Java.
• VS code.
  Support Java via plugins.