ANTLR video course

[Terence Parr]

Hi all,

Heh, Federico Tomassetti has created an awesome ANTLR video course if you are interested:

http://tomassetti.me/antlr-course

It costs money but could be worth it for you if you want to get up to speed quickly. You can also check out his free mega tutorial on ANTLR:

https://tomassetti.me/antlr-mega-tutorial/

Terence

[Azaad]

Sounds awesome for sure! I've been obsessively going through "The Definitive ANTLR4 Reference" recently. Does the course cover anything that isn't in the book?

[Federico Tomassetti]

Hi,
Thank you Terence for sharing it!

On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 12:08:22 AM UTC+2, Azaad wrote:

Sounds awesome for sure! I've been obsessively going through "The Definitive ANTLR4 Reference" recently. Does the course cover anything that isn't in the book?

Well, I read the book some time ago. There is definitely a lot of overlap. The difference could be in the point of view I think: the book is written by the true and only author of ANTLR, and that already means something :)

The video course is, well, a videocourse and not a book (some people prefers videos). The videos show slides, the presenters talking and screencasts. The material is written by consultants that use ANTLR for producing all sort of products. The accent is less on producing a complete reference, but it is more on discussing what works for us and how we use ANTLR in practice.

Another difference is the language used. If I recall correctly the examples in the book are in Java, while in the video course we use Python. All the examples are then available for download in Python, C#, and Javascript (yes, we translated all of them).

The link contains a list of the lessons. I would expect the first lessons to overlap more with the book, while the last lessons could be more different from the material you find in the book.

Cheers,
Federico

[Azaad]

Well, I just started going through Dr. Parr's Language Implementation Patterns book and it is demystifying programming languages a lot for me. I think that book gave me exactly what I was looking for after going through the ANTLR reference. I love the blog though, I came across it a few times before and I'll visit more often!

[Noli San Jose]

Yes. I saw these links a few hours ago and am seriously thinking about buying the video course. I'll decide probably in the next few days. Still a very unique offering since Udemy and Coursera have not done anything related to ANTLR.

[Federico Tomassetti]

Thanks :)
Yes, we thought it was something missing and we are happy about how it
was received by the community so far.

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