An environment for interpreter-based programming language projects

Abstract

This paper discusses the programming language course and presents an approach to some of the pedagogical challenges presented. We aim to expose students to all the concepts central to a traditional programming language course but also give experience with the implementation of various languages. To this end, we are developing a software environment, MULE, which supports this teaching goal. This paper gives an overview of MULE and discusses our recent experiences using MULE as a teaching tool.