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An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction[1] by Abdulaziz Ghuloum.

The author presents a very approachable technique for building pedagogical compilers by starting with a tiny subset of the language - a language that can accept integers and print it and incrementally grows it into Scheme. Every step yields a fully working compiler for a progressively expanding subset of Scheme. Every compiler step produces real assembly code that can be assembled and executed directly by the hardware.

I've dabbled with compilers for a while now and in my experience I found this to be among the best ways to get people excited about compilers. There is some code available from Nada Amin[2] for the curious and I'm re implementing it from scratch again[3].

1. http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf

2. https://github.com/namin/inc

3. https://github.com/jaseemabid/inc