Show HN: QuickPYTHON

#1

Post by timothycrosley » Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 8:53 AM UTC

Show HN: QuickPYTHON
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#2

Post by oso2k » Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 7:18 AM UTC

This is awesome! A QBASIC/QuickBASIC like environment for Python.

One thing that made QBASIC so approachable was its Help system. So easy to navigate and find the info/function/argument you needed.

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 9:22 AM UTC

oso2k wrote: post #2

This is awesome! A QBASIC/QuickBASIC like environment for Python. One thing that made QBASIC so approachable was its Help system. So easy to navigate and find the info/function/argument you needed.

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Post by StavrosK » Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 10:32 AM UTC

Well this is fantastic.

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#5

Post by kolinko » Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 11:04 AM UTC

As simeone who grew up with Turbo Pascal, I’d prefer the name „Turbo Python” ;)

But seriously - love the idea, congrats!

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Post by achikin » Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 11:30 AM UTC

This is very cool! I miss the intergity, simplicity and minimalism of Turbo Pascal.

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Post by severak_cz » Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 1:28 PM UTC

looks extra promising. But I cannot run it on windows. I installed it with py -3 -m pip install qpython but I cannot figure how to run it.

Also - does it have some sort of built-in manual like Qbasic had?

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Post by codazoda » Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 2:51 PM UTC

kolinko wrote: post #5

As simeone who grew up with Turbo Pascal, I’d prefer the name „Turbo Python” ;) But seriously - love the idea, congrats!

And some letters in the menu should be red. :)

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Post by vsskanth » Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 2:59 PM UTC

Beautiful! Takes me back to 7th grade when I first learnt C. Learning to make text based games was so much fun

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Post by zomglings » Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 3:50 PM UTC

This just hit me hard with nostalgia. Learned to program with QBASIC.

Really love the examples - I learned so much by reading the source code of games like gorillas that came with QuickBASIC.