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Wow, "writing lots of compilers and type checkers" definitely wasn't on my radar screen when I was in high school.


Me neither, but a classmate was reading over/working through the dragon book our senior year of high school. There's a reason he went to CMU and I didn't. On the other hand, compilers (well, a less than formal version) was the third CS course topic at GT. Definitely approachable, with good faculty/staff, as an early topic of study.


I did an informatics technical degree on high school back in the early 90's in Portugal.

We had introduction to parsing and basic language processing.


I was reading Crenshaw's "Let's Build a Compiler" txt file. Good memories :)




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