Hack Games (Spring 2012 @ Mines) or, "From Nand to..."

[ybakos]

Hi everyone,
Our students here at the Colorado School of Mines just finished project9, in which we create games for the Hack platform. I thought I'd share.

https://github.com/ybakos/csci410-games-2012spring

[Dan]

Thanks for these! They were immensely helpful in the building of my compiler. My compiler would be way, way, less robust (and less of an accomplishment for me) had I not found this body of working, compile-able Jack code.

If the authors read this, I would suggest to them that they provide a link to these projects in the project pages for the compiler chapters.

Every time I had a question about Jack semantics--which was often, since the only language I knew when starting this book was Python--I grep'd these projects. I think had I known some Java (or had more general programming experience), this mightn't've been an issue, but I really wouldn't've made it through had I not found this post.

[Dan]

I'm amazed at what your students produced, by the way. Some of these projects are massive!

[ybakos]

Glad you liked them and found them helpful.

[sgaweda]

I'm a bit confused. Were these originally jack files when Dan made his comments or am I overlooking some way to see the jack code for these projects?