A wild UC Berkeley CS 61A adventure appears!

https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/su13/lab/lab06a/lab06a...

You can stick your pseudocode into the "give" function: https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/sp15/lab/lab10/adventu...

I'm not sure it's explicit in the original article, but I tend to agree with the sentiment that it's a lot more fun to learn about interpreters and databases when you're making games rather than corporate infrastructure (although I can't deny that building corporate infrastructure has its moments)

Joel Spolsky talks about using the compiler to catch errors on p. 68 of "The Best Software Writing I"

https://books.google.com/books?id=vPvhzDqZlaAC&pg=PA68&lpg=P...