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diff --git a/website/content/post/2018/midterm.md b/website/content/post/2018/midterm.md
index 879a1f6..f29a375 100644
--- a/website/content/post/2018/midterm.md
+++ b/website/content/post/2018/midterm.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 title: "Midterm Test 2018 edition"
 date: 2018-12-08T19:01:49+02:00
 edition: 2018
+expiryDate: 2020-09-30
 draft: false
 ---
 # 
diff --git a/website/content/post/2018/midterm_results.md b/website/content/post/2018/midterm_results.md
index 64050e2..1d78e8e 100644
--- a/website/content/post/2018/midterm_results.md
+++ b/website/content/post/2018/midterm_results.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 title: "Midterm Test Results - 2018 edition"
 date: 2019-01-08T19:01:49+02:00
 edition: 2018
+expiryDate: 2020-09-30
 draft: false
 ---
 
diff --git a/website/content/post/2018/project_presentation.md b/website/content/post/2018/project_presentation.md
index 7325bc4..d8b4c94 100644
--- a/website/content/post/2018/project_presentation.md
+++ b/website/content/post/2018/project_presentation.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 title: "Project Presentations - 2018 edition"
 date: 2019-01-25T19:01:49+02:00
 edition: 2018
+expiryDate: 2020-09-30
 draft: false
 ---
 
diff --git a/website/content/post/2018/projects.md b/website/content/post/2018/projects.md
index 6fa6fa1..5499cde 100644
--- a/website/content/post/2018/projects.md
+++ b/website/content/post/2018/projects.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 title: "Projects - 2018 edition"
 date: 2019-01-09T19:01:49+02:00
 edition: 2018
+expiryDate: 2020-09-30
 draft: false
 ---
 
diff --git a/website/content/post/2018/september.md b/website/content/post/2018/september.md
index a881d3e..97b5d60 100644
--- a/website/content/post/2018/september.md
+++ b/website/content/post/2018/september.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 title: "September Session Exam 2018 edition"
 date: 2019-08-22T19:01:49+02:00
 edition: 2018
+expiryDate: 2020-09-30
 draft: false
 ---
 
diff --git a/website/content/post/contents.md b/website/content/post/contents.md
index cf5d446..cbdaf00 100644
--- a/website/content/post/contents.md
+++ b/website/content/post/contents.md
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 ---
 title: "Course Contents"
 date: 2018-08-02T17:45:53+03:00
-edition: 2018
 draft: false
+expiryDate: 2020-09-30
+
 ---
 
 Table of contents for the course.
diff --git a/website/content/post/dragons.md b/website/content/post/dragons.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..937885b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/website/content/post/dragons.md
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+---
+title: "Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters"
+date: 2020-10-05
+draft: false
+---
+
+Overview of compiler and interpreter architecture.
+
+<!--more-->
+
+[Slideshow]({{< ref "/slides/01_dragons" >}})
+
+---
+
+{{% readpost file="/slides/01_dragons/_index.md" markdown=true %}}
diff --git a/website/content/post/homeworks.md b/website/content/post/homeworks.md
index a1fb2ab..18627e7 100644
--- a/website/content/post/homeworks.md
+++ b/website/content/post/homeworks.md
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 title: "Homeworks"
 date: 2018-11-17T19:01:49+02:00
 draft: false
-edition: 2018
+expiryDate: 2020-09-30
+
 ---
 # Virtual Machine and JSImpl related homeworks
 
diff --git a/website/content/post/intro.md b/website/content/post/intro.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..06c5fe6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/website/content/post/intro.md
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+---
+title: "Introduction to IPL course"
+date: 2020-10-04
+draft: false
+---
+
+Introduction to the Implementation of Programming Languages course
+
+<!--more-->
+
+[Slideshow]({{< ref "/slides/00_intro" >}})
+
+---
+
+{{% readpost file="/slides/00_intro/_index.md" markdown=true %}}
diff --git a/website/content/post/resources.md b/website/content/post/resources.md
index 4072002..cee1d64 100644
--- a/website/content/post/resources.md
+++ b/website/content/post/resources.md
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 ---
 title: "Resources"
 date: 2018-09-29T00:24:06+03:00
-edition: 2018
 draft: false
+expiryDate: 2020-09-30
+
 ---
 
 A general collection of resources on implementing programming languages and
@@ -10,6 +11,7 @@ virtual machines.
 
 <!--more-->
 
+
 ## General
 
 ### Courses
diff --git a/website/content/slides/00_intro/_index.md b/website/content/slides/00_intro/_index.md
index 0625219..9341dfb 100644
--- a/website/content/slides/00_intro/_index.md
+++ b/website/content/slides/00_intro/_index.md
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ We are going to study and enhance a JavaScript interpreter.
 - understandable
 - working
 - extensible
+- embeddable
 
 ---
 ## How you are going to be graded?
@@ -133,15 +134,16 @@ contribution.
 
 - Follow the pull request template
 - Add your faculty number in the description
+---
 
 ## What are the requirements?
 
-1. {{< frag c="Will to learn and time to experiment and write code" >}}
-2. {{< frag c="Programming with C++, fluent in C++ will be better" >}}
-2. {{< frag c="Programming with JavaScript or other dynamic language" >}}
-3. {{< frag c="Data structures" >}}
-4. {{< frag c="Languages, Finite Automata, Computability" >}}
-5. {{< frag c="How computers work - CPU, memory hierarchy, etc" >}}
+1. Will to learn and time to experiment and write code
+2. Programming with C++, fluent in C++ will be better
+2. Programming with JavaScript or other dynamic language
+3. Data structures
+4. Languages, Finite Automata, Computability
+5. How computers work - CPU, memory hierarchy, etc
 
 ---
 # Contents of the course
@@ -182,6 +184,7 @@ Abstract Syntax Tree
 1. How to grow one?
 2. What to do with it?
 3. Evaluating the syntax tree
+4. Transforming the syntax tree
 
 {{% note %}}
 - language transformation at syntax level
@@ -205,8 +208,10 @@ Virtual machines
 
 1. What is a virtual machine?
 2. Implementing the language features in the VM
+    - Library - arrays, hash maps, etc
     - OOP
     - Exception handling
+3. Communicating with the "real" machine
 
 ---
 ## 7. GC
@@ -228,6 +233,18 @@ Garbage collection
 3. Ahead of Time
 
 ---
+# Plan for the course
+
+1. Introduction - week 1
+2. Lexers - week 2
+3. Parser - week 2
+4. AST - week 3, 4
+5. Bytecode - weeks 5, 6
+6. VMs - weeks 7, 8, 10
+7. GC - weeks 10, 11
+8. JIT & AOT code generation - weeks 11, 12, 13
+
+---
 ## Resources
 
 - https://github.com/SofiaCPP/IPL
@@ -237,4 +254,14 @@ Garbage collection
 - Links to resources will be there too!
 
 ---
+## Resources
+
+Real world virtual machines:
+
+- V8, SpiderMonkey, JavaScriptCore, ChakraCore and many more
+- duktape
+- lua, luajit
+- cPython, PyPy, ...
+
+---
 # ?
diff --git a/website/content/slides/01_dragons/_index.md b/website/content/slides/01_dragons/_index.md
index 52ecf91..756066b 100644
--- a/website/content/slides/01_dragons/_index.md
+++ b/website/content/slides/01_dragons/_index.md
@@ -197,7 +197,26 @@ LR(n) and LALR(n) are family of parsing algorithms for CFG
 ---
 ###### AST
 
-# TODO: use JavaScript AST dumper
+https://esprima.org/demo/parse.html?code=function%20answer()%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20return%206%20*%207%3B%0A%7D
+
+    {
+      "type": "FunctionDeclaration",
+      "id": { "type": "Identifier", "name": "answer" },
+      "body": {
+        "type": "BlockStatement",
+        "body": [
+          {
+            "type": "ReturnStatement",
+            "argument": {
+              "type": "BinaryExpression",
+              "operator": "*",
+              "left": { "type": "Literal", "value": 6 },
+              "right": { "type": "Literal", "value": 7 }
+            }
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+    }
 
 ---
 ### Middle
@@ -233,6 +252,37 @@ that is convenient for:
     }
 
 ---
+### WebAssembly
+
+WebAssembly is actually an IR.
+
+    (module
+      (func (export "add") (param $n1 i32) (param $n2 i32) (result i32)
+        get_local $n1
+        get_local $n2
+        i32.add
+      )
+    )
+
+---
+### .NET CIL
+
+- C#, F#, Basic (some versions), etc target the .NET virtual machine
+- Common Intermediate Language
+
+    .class public Foo
+    {
+        .method public static int32 Add(int32, int32) cil managed
+        {
+            .maxstack 2
+            ldarg.0 // load the first argument;
+            ldarg.1 // load the second argument;
+            add     // add them;
+            ret     // return the result;
+        }
+    }
+
+---
 ### Back end
 
 > Takes the IR and produces native code for a particular machine
@@ -336,5 +386,20 @@ expressions.
 - antlr
 
 ---
+### Crash course in JSImpl
+
+- repository organization
+- continous integration
+- pull requests
+
+---
+### Crash course in JSImpl
+
+- projects
+- allocators
+- tests
+
+
+---
 # ?
 ---
diff --git a/website/data/menu.yaml b/website/data/menu.yaml
index 2310032..ad8bb51 100644
--- a/website/data/menu.yaml
+++ b/website/data/menu.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 - name: Home
   link: ""
-- name: 2018
-  link: edition/2018/
 - name: About
   link: about/