WebLang

I did not know that this course project had different versions, the web based version sounds interesting such as I would consider web development one of my weak points so it would help to strengthen it and have a deeper understanding of web development, but at the same time is one of my weak points so the course would have probably been harder. The advantage of the C# version of the project is that C# in the compiler faces we have done is really similar to other object-oriented languages we have used, so it is not really hard to adapt to it. Although at the moment we haven’t had the need to use some of the more advanced things we read about in the book.

Something that really piqued my interest, and I would really like to learn is to set up a web server as it sounds like something important, but in previous courses was skimmed over and only seen really briefly or replaced by AWS buckets.

Also, I did not expect to read about the changes that this undergraduate program has gone through. I had never heard about the JSP tags but seeing some of the example codes in the article the basic concept of the function in the syntax analysis is still there and does not seem that different. Although I did not understand what is the scope of the web interpreter that is written in that version of the course.

After reading the article I was left with two doubts is this project still being given here in the institution and some semesters is this version of the compiler and some semesters is the web based version? Or was this scrapped and what different challenges the web based version of the project have that the one we are taking does not?


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