Couldn’t commend you more highly for this—not least because it’s exactly what I would do if I were a CS professor. ;) Interpreters, compilers, and games are th

Couldn’t commend you more highly for this—not least because it’s exactly what I would do if I were a CS professor. ;) Interpreters, compilers, and games are the things that have taught me the most about programming and computing in general. Implementing programming languages pushes high-level CS concepts as well as firsthand understanding of how languages work. Games are a fun practical application of those concepts—embedded scripting languages in particular—plus trig, vectors, matrices, rendering, optics, audio, DSP, physics, you name it. And languages and games both provide plenty of opportunities to learn about optimisation. I hardly know why CS is taught any other way.