https://gruozachary.github.io/blog/Recent content in About Me on Blog of Thomas ZacharyHugo -- 0.159.1en-usTue, 31 Mar 2026 06:19:22 +0100https://gruozachary.github.io/blog/posts/hardwacc/Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:19:22 +0100https://gruozachary.github.io/blog/posts/hardwacc/<h1 id="introduction">Introduction</h1> <p>At <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_College_London">Imperial College London</a>, second-year computing students tackle 3 big group projects: PintOS, WACC, and DRP. Each of these projects focus on developing different skills needed by a software engineer. WACC is a project where you make a compiler from scratch, and unlike the previous project (PintOS), you don&rsquo;t have any skeleton or framework code to guide you. The specification is quite clear on what you have to do: write a compiler that compiles the WACC programming language. Other than that, there are not many restrictions on how you go about this task.</p>