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Love this! Reminds me of my first attempts at programming on a ZX Spectrum when I was 5 or so. It's hard to beat the simplicity and immediacy of writing a few
by ggambetta 7y ago
Love this! Reminds me of my first attempts at programming on a ZX Spectrum when I was 5 or so.
It's hard to beat the simplicity and immediacy of writing a few lines of code and having a simple physics simulation (the bouncing ball example here). I can see this being extremely popular and useful to kids!
- leanthonyrn 7y agoThank you for your work. When trying to teach my child basic coding concepts along with their math homework, the barrier often is the IDE. The web-based staring point is incredibly useful. Fire up the web browser and show the math example is excellent. I have started using the web-based Pyret with my 9-year-old. As we do her math, we mirror the math and geometry problems and solve them in the browser environment. The simplicity to code, run, eval is key. https://www.pyret.org https://www.pyret.org I will give Easylang a try on her next set of problems. Strong Work!
- buckminster 7y agoParagraphs quoted like this are unreadable. Please don't.
- stevekemp 7y agoI started programming on a ZX Spectrum: https://blog.steve.fi/how_i_started_programming.html https://blog.steve.fi/how_i_started_programming.html And I had a lot of fun recently writing a simple BASIC interpreter, largely inspired by Sinclair's basic: https://github.com/skx/gobasic https://github.com/skx/gobasic I'm pretty pleased with the ability to write images, via a browser-editor, even if it is static and not animated.