Overview of translation process, Lexical analysis, Hand coding and automatic generation of lexical analyzers.

Parsing theory, Top down and bottom of parsing algorithms, Automatic generation of parsers, Intermediate code generation, Different intermediate forms, Syntax directed translation mechanism and attributed definition.

Run Time Theory Management, static memory allocation and stack based memory allocation schemes, Symbol table management.

Code Generation, Machine model, order of evaluation, registers allocation, code selection.

Code Optimization, Global data flow analyses, A few selected optimizations like command sub expression removal, loop invariant code motion, strength reduction etc.