CSLite Compiler, Part 2

This is the second portion of the two-part project and the last assignment for the whole semester. In this portion, we are now allowed to generate .bs2 code and in turn, run it on the Scribbler robot whereas in the first portion we simply had an introduction and produced results based largely on theory. Once I had completed this small project, I had the strong feeling to take an eventual compiler course at UMass. I didn't so much enjoy working with the Scribbler robot, but I felt I got a strong grasp on lexing and parsing fundamentals and the overall development of a compiler. However, this isn't the first time I've worked with lexers and parsers; I originally took Professor Bill Moloney's Computing IV course a year previous, but had to drop it due to financial constraints of an extreme nature. In that short time I worked with the flex and bison tools within C/C++ and learned a great deal. Frankly, to me, the fundamentals of compiler construction are more easily understood from a C/C++ perspective than from Java's perspective. I feel it has to do with the shielding Java provides versus the low level nature C/C++ allows.