Textbook:
Compilers: Principles, Techniques,
and Tools
By Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman,
Addison-Wesley, 1986
This text is a classic in the field, written by the world's
leading experts on compiler technology. Written in 1986, the
text is dated in a few respects, but this is a mature technology
whose underpinnings have not been changing much.
(More advanced applications, such as parallelism and code
generation have been changing more rapidly, but we won't be
dealing with these subjects anyway.) The other disadvantage
of the text is that it is written at a fairly sophisticated
level. Finally, there were no reasonable competing texts
on the market.
Sites related to purchasing the textbook:
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The UTSA bookstore.
Was for sale at ????? (I haven't checked
recently).
Consistent with UTSA's ``We will not
be oversold'' policy, you probably don't want to buy the text here,
but you might get an inexpensive used text.
Remember that online prices don't have tax, but do have
shipping costs -- it works about even.
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Amazon.com's listing for the text.
Our text is priced here at $84.00.
(You can also try to order it from them used.)
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bookpool.com's listing for the text.
Our text is priced here at $73.95, much cheaper than amazon.com.
Various students have recommended this as a cheap source
for technical books.
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Brian's Book's listing for the text.
Our text is priced here at $71.25.
They have additional savings if you order more than one copy,
such as $67.50 for 2-9 copies.
I have not used Brian's Book's, so I can't vouch for them.
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pricescan.com
Our text
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- bookpool.com, $79.95 incl. shipping
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- walmart.com, $75.94 incl. shipping
