After realizing that I don't know nearly as much as I'd like about compilers, I went looking for a way to learn more. While there is online courseware from MIT and Stanford, I'd really like to meet in person with some people to work through exercises and questions together.<p>Towards that end, is anyone interested in a bi-weekly meeting with lectures on compilers? I'm envisioning something that has a lecture and hacking time for the latest exercises.
I'm reading "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" and yeah, learning more about compilers would be cool, but a big time commitment is not something I want ATM.<p>Might try asking the dojo if you're in south bay on any semi-regular basis.
I'm interested, but I'm not moving to SF until October. I'll message you my email in case you get a late start or want to try to meet around then.<p>I took a compilers course in college but I was too busy to get as much out of it as I wanted. I've always wanted to go back over that stuff and I've been wanting to learn more about the innards of Python, so I was hoping to combine the two.
Berkeley has a pretty good programming-languages program; a friend of mine has been working on parallelizing CSS rendering: <a href="http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~lmeyerov/#activities" rel="nofollow">http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~lmeyerov/#activities</a>