awesome-compilers

University Of Washington CSEP501: Compiler Construction http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep501/ Keith Schwartz Stanford Compiler course CS143 http://www.keithschwarz.com/cs143/ Stanford's Engineering Compiler course on Lagunita https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Compilers/... Matt Might's courses are self educational blueprints http://matt.might.net/teaching/compilers/ Book Introduction to Compilers and Language Design https://www3.nd.edu/~dthain/compilerbook/ I'm not a fan of uncurated link dumps, however: Awesome compilers link aggregation on Github https://github.com/aalhour/awesome-compilers

For a new grad, I recon you checkout the LLVM introduction and its pointers by Adrian Sampson for a primer and then look at the LLVM tutorials [0] about building a toy language. This will give you a feel about how 'modern' compiler development ties in with a programming language using the LLVM infrastructure. If you are feeling for contributing to a real-world language, there are a few such as Go (very advanced), Rust, Swift, etc. For a beginner, my recommendation would be to checkout the Zig Programming Language [2] as a start and then look at the others. If you can't choose, look at Awesome Compilers: [3] This is the sort of question that I am very pleased to see on HN and we need more of. [0] - https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/llvm.html [1] - https://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/ [2] - https://ziglang.org [3] - https://github.com/aa