Desenvolvimento de um compilador e uma máquina virtual de Python para o ambiente WebAlgo

Abstract

The Python language has been gaining substantial space in academia due to both productivity and ease in code writing it provides to beginning students of computer programming. This work is the first step in order to equip WebAlgo with Python support, aiming to follow the imminent trend of the language application in the introductory programming disciplines. The work presents important concepts pertaining to the area of study, such as compilers, interpreters and virtual machines, followed by a brief introduction of the Python language. Afterwards, the operation of low-level instructions and memory management are discussed. At the end, the Python and bytecode subsets chosen are detailed, as well as the grammar implemented, and, finally, the structures present in the implemented software (sic).