Practice

Capstone Projects

After a track, take on a multi-week build. Each capstone breaks down into milestones with an explicit build order, a way to check your work, and the tasks and visualizations that cover each piece. You build it in your own repository.

Build a Tiny C Compiler

Build a working C compiler from scratch. Implements lexical analysis, parsing, type checking, and x86-64 code generation.

Language FoundationsCompilers

6-8 weeks 5 milestones 20 steps, 20 linked tasks

Write a Minimal OS Kernel

Build a bootable 32-bit kernel from scratch with memory management, interrupts, and process scheduling.

Operating SystemsCPU Architecture

8-12 weeks 5 milestones 20 steps, 20 linked tasks

Create a Network Protocol Stack

Implement TCP/IP from scratch using raw sockets.

NetworkingStorage & Databases

6-8 weeks 5 milestones 20 steps, 18 linked tasks

Develop a JIT Compiler

Build a JIT compiler for a simple dynamic language using LLVM JIT.

VMs & RuntimesCompilers

6-8 weeks 5 milestones 20 steps, 19 linked tasks