Abstract
In this hands-on tutorial, we go over the basic steps needed to create a programming language like Python, from scratch.
Aimed at curious people that have no experience writing interpreters or compilers, this workshop follows the steps needed to implement a programming language from scratch:
- we read source code and break it up into tokens;
- we parse the sequence of tokens to see if they make sense together and to build a tree representation of the program;
- we compile the tree representation into bytecode, just like Python does; and
- we interpret the bytecode to run the program.
To attend this workshop, at least 1 year of Python experience is recommended.
