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Fuze for Nintendo Switch: An easy-to-learn text-based programming language

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Re: Fuze for Nintendo Switch: An easy-to-learn text-based programming language

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There's Labview, Scratch, and now I think, Luna. Are visual programming languages really now so common that we need to specify "text-based" for new computer programming languages?

It makes sense in this context because Switch is a game console with touch screen and game pad (joy cons) as default input modes. Both of those types of input are not really typing-friendly, so one may expect that the language will accommodate for that and be fully or partially visual.

Re: Fuze for Nintendo Switch: An easy-to-learn text-based programming language

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There's Labview, Scratch, and now I think, Luna. Are visual programming languages really now so common that we need to specify "text-based" for new computer programming languages?

They are in the space of educational, 'create your own app / game' space for kids. It's a unique selling point compared to their competition.

Re: Fuze for Nintendo Switch: An easy-to-learn text-based programming language

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I so, so wish something like Fuze was available for ioS. I'm an old-school ZX-Spectrum tinkerer and I still miss Basic. I can't help thinking it would still be unsurpassed as a simple (text-based) way of teaching coding to kids.

How about pythonista?

Re: Fuze for Nintendo Switch: An easy-to-learn text-based programming language

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>If you are a budding creative digital artist and are willing to provide game style graphics, free of any royalty, for use in the release version then in return, you will be credited within the application and receive a free full version of the software for both Nintendo Switch and Windows, along with a selection of merchandising items we may have available at the time. To get in touch please use the contact page here

How about, you know, paying the artist?

Re: Fuze for Nintendo Switch: An easy-to-learn text-based programming language

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>If you are a budding creative digital artist and are willing to provide game style graphics, free of any royalty, for use in the release version then in return, you will be credited within the application and receive a free full version of the software for both Nintendo Switch and Windows, along with a selection of merchandising items we may have available at the time. To get in touch please use the contact page her…

It's just an offer and you see, those words 'budding' imply amateur work which might not be worth much. It gets me sore to see innocent things picked to pieces. I agree on BS internships that use people. But this doesn't appear malicious.

Re: Fuze for Nintendo Switch: An easy-to-learn text-based programming language

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I so, so wish something like Fuze was available for ioS. I'm an old-school ZX-Spectrum tinkerer and I still miss Basic. I can't help thinking it would still be unsurpassed as a simple (text-based) way of teaching coding to kids.

There are so many things like Fuze for iOS. I've tested a number of them on my kids over the years, and I'd suggest:

Codea is great. Lua, not basic. Great asset management for games. Pythonista is pretty good. Python, not basic. Swift Playgrounds is pretty great. Swift, not basic. You can do pretty much anything, including 3D and AR.

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