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by cjdell 9y ago
Reminds me of a comedy show where they were making colour images in Excel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBX2QQHlQ_I
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by cjdell 9y ago
If they wrote Android in Go, then it most definitely would be more lean than the current Java clutter that is underlying the platform. Add to that the dev tools would use about 100x less resources!
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by cjdell 9y ago
Wow, nice find! :-D
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by cjdell 9y ago
Regarding Emscripten, tried a while back to port "Craft" (lightweight Minecraft in C). Proved it could work but needs some work! :-D https://github.com/cjdell/Craft/commit/c0162acb36ed8f538c6bf... S
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by cjdell 9y ago
This looks awesome. Minecraft is a fantastic way to teach programming, and not just to kids! There is something magical about seeing code you write doing something visual that you can interact with. Here's a shameless link to a thing I
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by cjdell 10y ago
I forced my phone to use 2G (GPRS/EDGE) which means it still functions as an internet connected communications device, but I'm far less likely to go browsing Twitter on it because of the slowness. I save money too.
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by cjdell 10y ago
You can bypass the serialisation cost by using the transferList for ArrayBuffer instances, which is used by typed arrays i.e. Int32Array, Float64Array etc. i.e. self.postMessage(myTypedArray, [myTypedArray.buffer]) I used this approach to g
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by cjdell 10y ago
I created this as a kids learning tool: http://webblocks.uk/ Has a built in code editor. Had the opportunity to run a few workshops around it. Kids seemed to enjoy it.
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by cjdell 10y ago
Think I'll put together a blog post about it when I get time. Link in the bottom right takes you to the source if you feel like tinkering with it. Happy for others to use/adapt this project of course! I'm honestly surprised w
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by cjdell 10y ago
It was originally a bug, but then I upgraded it to a feature. :-) There is also fly mode, see buttons on the right.
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by cjdell 10y ago
Language options would be great to have. If this becomes popular it will be a priority. At the moment it's more of a concept that I wanted to share but help is always welcome :-)
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by cjdell 10y ago
Mouse input now working thanks to Jason McGhee :-)
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by cjdell 10y ago
Would like to add this soon, was slightly fiddly so stuck to keyboard for now. Have got Cardboard support but just as a proof of concept, needs more work :-)
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Show HN: WebGL Minecraft-like scripting environment for teaching programming(webblocks.uk)
66 points by cjdell 10y ago|22 comments