• Terminals: Basic symbols from which strings are formed, also called token name.

• Nonterminals: Syntactic variables that denote sets of strings.

• Production: What nonterminals produce, the manner in which the terminals and nonterminals can be combined to form strings.

• Grammar: The combination of termination symbols, nonterminal symbols, productions (nonterminal output).

• The language: The strings that we derive from the grammar.

• Parse Tree: Finding a tree that can be used to derive/yield a string in the language.

• Parsing: The process of finding a parse tree for a given string of terminals.

• Ambiguous grammar: A grammar that can have more than one parse tree that can generate a given string.

• Associativity: The side to which the operator belongs to if the operator is within two tokens.

• Syntax-directed translation scheme: Attaching rules or program feature to productions in a grammar.

Resources

• https://venam.nixers.net/blog/programming/2020/09/10/compiler_notes.html
• Compiler Architecture