Ask HN: CS Course

#1

Post by h_tbob » Sun, Aug 03, 2025, 12:51 AM UTC

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?

Re: Ask HN: CS Course

#2

Post by sexyman48 » Sun, Aug 03, 2025, 1:13 AM UTC

Graduate high school before making recommendations about university.

Re: Ask HN: CS Course

#3

Post by linguae » Sun, Aug 03, 2025, 2:48 AM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: CS Course

#4

Post by h_tbob » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 1:02 AM UTC

sexyman48 wrote: post #2

Graduate high school before making recommendations about university.

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--

Re: Ask HN: CS Course

#5

Post by mathiaspoint » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 1:03 AM UTC

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