Programming Language Design Courses and Certifications

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Filling the Core Language Gaps - Proposed New Primitives in APL

Explore three proposed APL primitives enhancing function composition, generalization, and indexing, completing the language's core functionality.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Programming Languages - The Fundamental Tools of the Computer Age

Explore the role of programming language research in developing reliable software, focusing on program validation, verification, and analysis techniques.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Create a Programming Language and Learn Advanced Python – Full Course

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Develop your own programming language while mastering advanced Python concepts, including OOP, data structures, and interpreter design. Gain hands-on experience in creating a functional language from scratch.

• freeCodeCamp
• 4-5 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Building Your Own Programming Language

Learn language building techniques: Lexing, Parsing, Tokenization, Traversing Abstract Syntax Trees, and Transpiling to JavaScript and make your own language now!

• Frontend Masters
• 3-4 hours
• On-Demand
• Paid Course

ChariotSolutions

Move Deliberately and Don't Break Anything: Lessons from Java Evolution

Explore Java's evolution, challenges in language design, and future directions with insights on maintaining compatibility while adding new capabilities for millions of developers.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

ChariotSolutions

Rust: A Language for the Next 40 Years

Explore Rust's unique features, memory safety guarantees, and evolution through Editions. Discover its growing adoption in critical systems and its potential for the future of programming.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Write your own Operating System

Flex - Lexical Analysis

Learn to use flex for lexical analysis in compiler construction, covering setup, syntax, and practical examples for tokenizing source code.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Strange Loop Conference

Building Optimising Compiler for Dart

Explore the development of Dart VM's new compilation pipeline, focusing on language features' impact and lessons from V8. Learn about JIT compiler design for object-oriented languages with optional static typing.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Strange Loop Conference

BODOL, or How to Accidentally Build Your Own Language

Explore language design principles and prototype development using functional programming, inspired by Clojure and Haskell. Learn about BODOL, a unique toy language combining Lisp and Haskell features.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Strange Loop Conference

Noether - Symmetry in Programming Language Design

Exploring symmetry in programming language design to enhance security, robustness, and efficiency. Introduces Noether, an experimental language with layered structure and strong symmetries for improved reasoning and analysis.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

International PHP Conference

What Kind of Language is it?

Explore PHP 7's language design, from imperative and object-oriented programming to typing systems. Gain insights into PHP's versatility and strengths as a modern programming language.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

Racket - A Programming-Language Programming Language

Explore Racket's unique approach to language creation and its versatile standard libraries. Learn how this innovative tool supports diverse programming paradigms and specialized language development.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

The Ideal Programming Language

Explore the ideal programming language with experts discussing frontend vs backend, testability, memory management, concurrency, and emerging languages. Gain insights into future trends in software development.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

The Perfect Language

Explore the quest for the perfect programming language, examining modern language design, tradeoffs, and future tools to make programming less challenging.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

The Most Average Function There Is

Explore programming language design through implementing an average function, examining language features, and challenging conventional notions of what makes a language "good".

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk