In a cs degree building a compiler would not give you any points what so ever. Writing about Operational semantics would: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera

In a cs degree building a compiler would not give you any points what so ever. Writing about Operational semantics would: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_semantics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_semantics Writing a compiler is just the side effect of showing it could be useful. It’s not hard programming equals cs. It’s the science part of computer science that matter.