Ask HN: CS Course

1 points by h_tbob 288 days ago | 4 comments

I think CS Courses should require users to make their own programming language.

As the degree progresses, they have to make all assignments in their own programming language.

What do you guys think?

linguae 288 days ago |

Many undergraduate CS programs require their students to take one or two classes where students learn about grammars, parsing, abstract syntax trees, interpreters, and compilers. I’ve also taken graduate courses in programming languages that involved adding features to languages.

Writing a new language from scratch is typically beyond the scope of a semester. It’s trivial to implement a small language like Scheme in a semester, but more complex languages will take more time.

mathiaspoint 286 days ago |

We had to do something like this although IIRC we didn't have to go all the way.

sexyman48 288 days ago |

Graduate high school before making recommendations about university.

h_tbob 286 days ago | |

haha, I'm a genius and way smarter than you. So smart I didn't have to graduate high school. Ha, I dropped out of 10th grade.

--lol--