Writing a compiler.

Hi, I'm currently on a placement year at University studying computer games programming. When I go back I will be writing a compiler.

I'm trying to be as prepared as I can be before returning to university.

Can anyone give me tips, a good place to start or any advice for starting?

I imagine that I'll be writing the compiler in C.

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I'm downloading Concepts of Programming Languages now. I've got a good list of books to work through atm as I'm also learning OpenGL. I'm also about to start the online A.I. course that Stanford University are doing in a couple of weeks. I'm going to be horrendously busy for the next few months.

I've worked with MIPS assembly when working on a PSP, and I'm pretty competent with C. I've just not worked much on low level stuff, but I do find it very interesting.