Re: Teaching compilers and programming languages together...

djohnson@seuss.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
Tue, 24 Jan 1995 07:14:00 GMT

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From: djohnson@seuss.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
In-Reply-To: aronov@ziggy1.poly.edu's message of Tue, 10 Jan 1995 23:03:03 GMT
Keywords: courses
Organization: UCSD Computer Science and Engineering Department
References: 95-01-040
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 07:14:00 GMT

> I almost exploded when I found out that in our undergraduate CS program
> Programming Langages (PL) course does not seem to be a prerequisite for
> Compilers (Comp).


Well, my feelings are that PL's should come first just to make
the life easier for the Comp professor. For instance, if everyone
knows at least one programming language, the professor can then
give *examples* of programs that are to be parsed or compiled.
How would you explain symbol tables if you can't guarantee that
the students know what variables are? If the students don't
know any programming language, they have no motivation for learning
anything in compilers.


Doing it the other way would be like teaching auto mechanics to people
who have never driven.
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Darin Johnson
djohnson@ucsd.edu
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