Abstract Syntax Trees. Target lists. Augassigns. Function types.
This semester I took a compilers course with <a href="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~hilfingr/">Professor Hilfinger</a>, who, despite his formidable reputation, quickly became my favorite professor at Berkeley. During the course of the semester, my group of four and I wrote a Python compiler in C++ basically from the ground up (in three parts, each around 200-300 hours each) - the reason I haven't blogged since February! I'm looking forward to learning more about compilers and now it's summer so I'll have plenty of time to blog again! (:
On my todo list this summer:
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Fun side project: Javascript HTML5 Canvas Physics engine project (possibly to be ported later to WebGL) with my friend <a href="http://thisisfranklin.com/">Franklin Hu</a>. We started a bit yesterday, it's pretty fun so far (until we get to the really really hard physics).
Follow our <a href="https://github.com/franklinhu/gohan">GitHub</a> if you're interested!
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As an undergraduate researcher in UC Berkeley's AMPLab, I'll be working on the CrowdDb project - check out their <a href="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~franklin/Papers/CrowdDBSigmod11.pdf">SIGMOD paper</a>.
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Fun side project: Augmented Reality Android LaserTag/FPS game (probably too ambitious, but we'd love to give it a shot).
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Finish reading Javascript: The Good Parts, and Smashing Book 2 (that I got for Valentine's day!)
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Fun side project: Some kind of Android app for my new Galaxy Tab that I got from Google IO 2011!
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A busy semester..