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I'm going to be working through http://matt.might.net/teaching/compilers/spring-2015/ this semester. Looks pretty good so far.

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His blog is a goldmine as well: http://matt.might.net/articles/

I'm taking the class this upcoming semester from Matt. I'm excited to understand what tools like gcc, clang, and so on are doing under the hood.

I'm looking forward to having you in the class!

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I wonder if this offer stands from semester to semester, and therefore if he seeded an exploit (or several, given how the extra credit reads) or whether the whole thing is just more of his light-hearted style.

But I definitely agree: that course looks great.

It stands from semester to semester.

Typically, I create a fresh ubuntu server at the start of each semester, and I let it go unpatched for the duration of the semester.

Guys how do I take this class? There is no way I can do this online?

This is not an online class, but a collection of materials used by the Prof to teach the course at the university. You can view the lectures[0] and work through the programming assignments[1] at your own pace.

[0] - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zanwtoflw4pcfu8/5pdT6axS3y [1] - http://matt.might.net/teaching/compilers/spring-2015/#projec...

At the moment, you'd have to enroll at the University of Utah.

I might put the course online some day, but lectures are extremely interactive.

I'm not sure how well they'll translate to an online format.

The reference implementations at http://matt.might.net/apps/pyparse/ does not seem to work.

Agreed. Do you know if lectures will be posted?

Slides will be online, but I don't have plans to video record the lectures.

A reasonable amount of the course material is in blog posts, and I add more posts each semester.

Sounds good, will check it out. Thanks for posting this.

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