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Why not for 3 eur buy some basic arduino or other tiny hardware to tinker with and for another few eur, tiny i2c/oled display, wires and set of basic switches?
by __natty__ 5mo ago
Why not for 3 eur buy some basic arduino or other tiny hardware to tinker with and for another few eur, tiny i2c/oled display, wires and set of basic switches? You start programming with option to expand to the larger project in the future. You have constraints of real device, community is much larger and there are more learning resources.
- newswasboring 5mo agoBecause moving a sprite is much more exhilarating than blinking an LED.
- yard2010 5mo agoWell how about moving a sprite by blinking a few leds?
- Tepix 5mo agoFor starters, there is way more friction both in buying hardware and waiting for it to arrive and developing on real hardware in general. I agree however that it's super cool to have real hardware to run this on.
- layer8 5mo agoBecause those don’t boot into a fixed interactive programming environment with a BASIC-like language and REPL to easily do simple things on the same screen and using the same keyboard you also use for programming. Your proposed setup has more complexity and is less intuitive for a learner.
- jrmg 5mo agoBecause those require you to get to grips with “a tiny i2c/oled display, wires and set of basic switches” when you’re interested in coding, not hardware.