This course is a senior elective that introduces students to compiler construction and issues related to software compilation. Topics includes Lexical analysis, Syntax analysis: LL parsing and LR parsing, Semantic analysis: Type checking and attributed grammars, Memory management, Error handling, Code generation, Code optimization, and Bootstrapping. Students will be exposed to real compiler implementations. Students become familiar with make, lex, and yacc as a part of the course and are required to implement one compiler project in their favorite computer programming language.