I want to know where I can study basics about compiler. I am having this subject in my SEMESTER so want to learn C compiler thoroughly. Plz help. I have a book of compiler DESIGN of Aho. But its little bit hard. I want to learn it fully. This is an odd request as for usually people are learning a programming language in college etc and its techniques and programming methods learned. The compilers are generally just a tool as part of an IDE that takes the program you wrote that is in a FORM easily read and understood by humans and it spits out a compiled binary of that program that is in the language that the computer understands and runs with.

So your actually taking a course that is on 'just' compilers for C and their internal workings and what they do?

Which compiler design book are you using?Well simply put, compilers just turns what ever programing language via c, c++, vb, noms on it, turns into binary 1's & 0's and plops out a exe. I am using Compiler Design -- Compiler Principles, Techniques and Tools by Aho,Seth
Try to read Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation by Steven Muchnick (Author) Where is your school? They should have a set of TEXTBOOKS RECOMMENDED for your course.