[chii]

A CS education is incomplete without a semester on writing a simple compiler, and a corresponding emulator for the output for said compiler.

[zeveb]

I think I agree. I really wish that I'd been walked through The Right Way (or just A Right Way) to write a compiler and bytecode interpreter by a professor. Oh well, it's fun to learn on my own!

[_RPM]

Sure. That's why I did it on my own.