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Shameless plug for the programming language course I'm TAing. It covers how to write a similar interpreter, with more detail about evaluation and less about par

Shameless plug for the programming language course I'm TAing. It covers how to write a similar interpreter, with more detail about evaluation and less about parsing. The book and all of the assignments are online. http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2016/index.html http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2016/index.html http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2016/assignments/programming/interp.html http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2016/assignments/programmi... http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2016/assignments.html http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2016/assignments.html The "interpreter" assignment has a similar end-goal as this tutorial. Many of the other assignments (the ones prefixed "ML-") are "mystery languages", where you try to tell the difference between two programming languages that have the same syntax but different semantics. It's a fun way to explore the consequences of language design, I think. Next year we might do a MOOC.

Twisol 9y ago
I can vouch for the mystery language assignments at least -- we worked through several at this year's Racket summer school (https://summer-school.racket-lang.org/2017/ https://summer-school.racket-lang.org/2017/), and they were interesting and very engaging. (Hi Justin!)
- totalperspectiv 9y ago
  This course looks awesome! Do you (or those scrolling by) know of any other courses like this? By this I mean short but focused burst of learning done in person.
  - Twisol 9y ago
    Yes, there seem to be a number of summer schools every year on a variety of topics, although the ones I'm familiar with are based more in academia than in industry. I think they tend to get announced on the Types mailing list (https://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce https://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce). Here are a few that I'm aware of: * Racket summer school: https://summer-school.racket-lang.org/2017/ https://summer-school.racket-lang.org/2017/ * Oregon Programming Languages Summer School: https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer17/ https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer17/ * DeepSpec summer school: https://deepspec.org/event/dsss17/ https://deepspec.org/event/dsss17/
mlazos 9y ago
I took the course a few years ago and can't overstate how much I learned implementing the interpreter assignments. They entirely revamped my thinking about programming and even prepared me for the real world a bit (my team at work just built a custom scheme interpreter for a deep learning DSL)

Twisol 9y ago

I can vouch for the mystery language assignments at least -- we worked through several at this year's Racket summer school (https://summer-school.racket-lang.org/2017/ https://summer-school.racket-lang.org/2017/), and they were interesting and very engaging. (Hi Justin!)

totalperspectiv 9y ago
This course looks awesome! Do you (or those scrolling by) know of any other courses like this? By this I mean short but focused burst of learning done in person.
- Twisol 9y ago
  Yes, there seem to be a number of summer schools every year on a variety of topics, although the ones I'm familiar with are based more in academia than in industry. I think they tend to get announced on the Types mailing list (https://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce https://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce). Here are a few that I'm aware of: * Racket summer school: https://summer-school.racket-lang.org/2017/ https://summer-school.racket-lang.org/2017/ * Oregon Programming Languages Summer School: https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer17/ https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer17/ * DeepSpec summer school: https://deepspec.org/event/dsss17/ https://deepspec.org/event/dsss17/

mlazos 9y ago

I took the course a few years ago and can't overstate how much I learned implementing the interpreter assignments. They entirely revamped my thinking about programming and even prepared me for the real world a bit (my team at work just built a custom scheme interpreter for a deep learning DSL)