One VS CSCMIC

First things first, we need to build the image. Indeed there is nothing special in this section, because we will only write a Dockerfile for our image. Yet, what make this image special are the pieces of software that will include. Generally, you ought to setup packages required to run your project and your tests, along side with a version control system like git. As far as I am concerned, I included the following packages in my lightweight alpine base image:

Hi, I graduated with Chemical engineering and left a dead end job late last year in oil sector. I kind of dabbled in programming on and off for the 7 years before that, learning bits and pieces of C, swift, iOS development, C++, machine learning, even algorithms and data structures; but nothing really “took off”. I used to mainly code simple engineering calculators. But there’s only so many engineering calculators the world needs and so since December last year I started studying CS “properly” - I did SICP and I learnt the basics of interpreters, assembly and compilers. I wanted to gain more experience with C before I did systems so I wrote generic data structures in C, even implemented a subset of Scheme in C .

Next I tried to study parsing from his book but didn't find parsing to be as enjoyable. I then went to the dragon book , which I had found to be very dense the first time I flipped through it an year ago. This time I found it to be much more approachable, thanks again to what I had read in Nystrom's book. Precedence and associativity made more sense when I read it a second time. But it turns out that Scheme's grammar is really simple: Expr -> atom | '(' Expr ')', so I stopped reading and started coding.

It's barely usable because it has no GC, and I may have to rewrite it from scratch for implementing one. In the meantime I am thinking of doing a rewrite in Java, and then do part 3 from Crafting Interpreters, where the author implements everything in C.

Still very much a newbie, I welcome criticisms and directions for moving it forward.

[1] https://github.com/TectonicFury/CSCMIC