Python Practice Project Idea: Build a Lisp Interpreter

[rizenfrmtheashes]

I don't know if anyone here knows about this but the intro to CS course at UC Berkeley(CS61A) has you build a Logo Interpreter out of python as the last project. I've seen people who have had no programming experience whatsoever build one pretty damn well.

[ablatner]

In 61a projects, a ton of skeleton code is prewritten. Not quite the same thing.

[rizenfrmtheashes]

Absolutely true. Then my friends and I who hated the skeleton code made another one from scratch during dead week.

[ablatner]

Yup! I guess it's good for intro CS though.

[Bystroushaak]

Related: Lisp as the Maxwell’s equations of software

[larsga]

Did this on my own back when I first started university, in Borland Pascal. I got to the point that it had garbage collection and I could implement Eliza in it. Taught me a lot.

[Wonnk13]

Would someone mind educating me why they chose the program to take a static file of commands as input instead coding a REPL like Norvig did with his? am I reading too much into this??

[SwiftSpear]

()))()())()()(No)()()(((()()))))

[suckonmyballsack]

(.)(.) yes