by Yotam Feldman and Mooly Sagiv on Feb 23, 2021 | Tags: compilers Compiling a program is a fascinating, complex journey through which a high-level program becomes lower-level executable code. How is such a journey planned and realized? After developing the techniques, how to teach them to others? There is lately much discussion of the pedagogy of compiler classes. In this blog post we would like to spotlight one design of compiler construction classes: the presentation order of the material. Usually, compiler classes present a compiler’s phases in the order they’re performed. We call this the “forward” direction. At Tel Aviv University, we’ve experimented with teaching compilers