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Pretty sure that's just your school. In the article, he mentions that the students don't get to compilers till 4th year. I find that a little strange. Some ele
by acchow 15y ago
Pretty sure that's just your school.
In the article, he mentions that the students don't get to compilers till 4th year. I find that a little strange. Some elementary understanding of how a high-level programming language translates to executable code is quite useful in other courses in a standard CS curriculum. At my school, in 2nd year we write a compiler for a tiny subset of C++ to MIPS assembly, and in 4th year you write a compiler for Java with a great deal of optimization.
- dovyski 15y agoThey get some basic understanding about the compilation process at some classes through the first two years. When I attended my CS course, in the 3rd years I got some understanding about programming language structure and learned about compilers at the end. It's cool that you can learn about that earlier.