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   by dovyski 14y ago

   It makes sense to me. Even though this is the "right" way of creating an "interpreted" language, the assignment I asked my students was way more simple: they had to interpret the source code and react to it immediately. There was no interme
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   by dovyski 14y ago

   I guess I forgot to mention, but one pair of students came up with a Forth like solution. Their interpreter was even able to parse the source code backwards.
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   by dovyski 14y ago

   When I arrived, PHP was already chosen. I think PHP was chosen because it is very similar to C and it lowers the learning curve for the students. I know PHP sucks sometimes, but it's still a cool language to play with.
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   by dovyski 14y ago

   Thanks! I was a little surprised too, but I think they focused too much on the test case, not the language itself. About your (first) question, yes, they all execute scripts line-by-line.
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   I told my 2nd year CS students to create a programming language [RESULTS](dovyski.com)

   17 points by dovyski 14y ago|13 comments
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   by dovyski 15y ago

   No problem :) I really got your point now. I thought about the "demoralising X empowering" and my solution for that was to work with pairs of students. Working as a team, they can discuss and motivate each other. When I blog about the resul
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   by dovyski 15y ago

   As a programmer, I really enjoy the idea of creating my own VM and make it able to interpret/run a language I designed. Surely some people got excited about that :)
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   by dovyski 15y ago

   I had the same fun when I created my own language during an also mandatory course on compilers :) Even though my goal is to enhance my student's skills about OOP, I hope they have fun creating a language.
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   by dovyski 15y ago

   Sure, I will blog about that in the future. Stay tuned :)
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    by dovyski 15y ago

    Sure, I will share the results on a future post. I think the same way your high-school comp-sci teacher does, but this time I decided to break the line. About the github idea, I like it, but my students are not familiar with git yet. I will
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    by dovyski 15y ago

    I will share the results on a future post. I understand your point, but I think the assignment will enhance their skills related to objects, classes, methods and instantiation. That's my goal, not teaching about compilers or language struct
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    by dovyski 15y ago

    Wow, great history! Thanks for sharing that.
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    by dovyski 15y ago

    Thank you! You described my thoughts when I created the assignment :) Like I said, I was afraid to push them too hard. However I was denying them a real challenge, filled with surprises, learning experiences and fun.
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    by dovyski 15y ago

    Yeah, it's true. I will try to analyze and discuss the implementations at the end.
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    by dovyski 15y ago

    Thanks for the link and for sharing your experiences. Based on what you said, it looks like I'm on the right track to create a great learning experience. Nice :)
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    by dovyski 15y ago

    One pair of students decided to create a stack-based language. I guess they noticed it would save several lines of code and make the interpretation process easier to do.
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    by dovyski 15y ago

    Cool! It looks like you are creating a more robust interpreter. The one I told them to implement is simpler (no type check, for instance).
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    by dovyski 15y ago

    It's a big challenge indeed. About the compiler course, it's the same at UFFS: 4th year. Thanks and nice to see a brazilian fellow around here :)
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    by dovyski 15y ago

    Thanks for the words and suggestions! About yacc they will meet that when they attend the compiler course. I didn't see a Brainfuck clone yet, but I saw something in the same level of oddity. It was a language called "Star Wars", I guess. I
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    by dovyski 15y ago

    Thanks! I totally agree with you. My student's next assignments will be game-related: develop an agent to fight inside an arena and create a Guitar Hero like game. I really think they will learn more and better if they have to accomplish th
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    by dovyski 15y ago

    They 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 comp
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    by dovyski 15y ago

    Thank you!
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    by dovyski 15y ago

    Thanks! I think a procedural language makes more sense for them at this time. They are just learning OOP, so it would be hard to implement an interpreter for that. About your suggestion, that's cool. I think most of them are already assumin
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    I told my 2nd year CS students to create a programming language(dovyski.com)

    129 points by dovyski 15y ago|63 comments
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    Kingade (Kids + Games = Better World)(kingade.com)

    1 points by dovyski 15y ago|0 comments
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    Build HTML5 magazines(dovyski.github.com)

    1 points by dovyski 15y ago|0 comments
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    by dovyski 15y ago

    Sounds sweet! Congratulations!
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    by dovyski 16y ago

    I found no information about license. All it says is: By submitting the form you agree that the art you share is your personalcreation and you allow other users to use it for free. Is the license attached to each image pack?
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    by dovyski 16y ago

    I can't reproduce on CentOS: $ php -v PHP 5.2.6 (cli) (built: May 5 2008 10:32:59) Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies with eAccelerator v0.9.5.3, Copyright (c
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    by dovyski 16y ago

    Indeed Terragen is a very good and powerful tool. We are solving the same problem, but using different approaches.