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Parsing expressions like it’s our job
Okay, so we now know how to diagram and parse an English language sentence. But how does that apply to…
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Grammatically Rooting Oneself With Parse Trees
Thinking about all of the abstractions that surround us in the world of technology can sometimes be overwhelming. This is…
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Evaluating the important parts
Once we’ve finished scanning our source text and identified our lexemes, we’ll need to do something with our lexeme “words”. This is…
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Reading Code Right, With Some Help From The Lexer
Software is all about logic. Programming has garnered a reputation of being a field that is heavy on the math…
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Anatomy of an AST
Now that we know that the abstract syntax tree is important (but not necessarily intimidating!), we can start to dissect…
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Condensing one tree into another
Okay, so now we have two trees to keep straight in our heads. We already had a parse tree, and…
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Leveling Up One’s Parsing Game With ASTs
Before I started on this journey of trying to learn computer science, there were certain terms and phrases that made…
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Two translators, both alike in dignity
The differences between interpretation and compilation and their respective translators tells us a lot about how these two programs are…
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A Deeper Inspection Into Compilation And Interpretation
There is perhaps nothing more satisfying than seeing the pieces of a puzzle come together. This is the case for…
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New tool for understanding enzymes — Google
In a new study published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, chemistry professor Victor Batista…
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New models sense human trust in smart machines
New “classification models” sense how well humans trust intelligent machines they collaborate with, a step toward improving the quality of…