This is above my pay grade. I cannot begin to image having to actually implement that:

To start off, we will discuss a smaller instance of the problem, which is given a single type of parentheses that has its open and closed forms '(' and ')', determine if a string of parentheses is balanced.

And in the real world, there are parentheses in strings (escaped or not) and in comments.

I wouldn't even know where to start.