This is great. I was trying to pick a language to teach my kid and I wanted to start with BASIC as that's what I learned as my first language, but I couldn't find a working editor that could compile and run by click of a button. So I started with python. But I think BASIC would be easier to teach. This will allow me to do that.
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#22This is great. I was trying to pick a language to teach my kid and I wanted to start with BASIC as that's what I learned as my first language, but I couldn't find a working editor that could compile and run by click of a button. So I started with python. But I think BASIC would be easier to teach. This will allow me to do that.
How's that going? I learned on BASIC around 1990 but it was cool then because you could do things that were in-line with the fun/game state of the art.
Today what you can do in BASIC is "boring" compared to the most "basic" fun the kid can have on the iPad. Are you finding traction?
Asking for my son who's currently 4 months :)
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#23This is great. I was trying to pick a language to teach my kid and I wanted to start with BASIC as that's what I learned as my first language, but I couldn't find a working editor that could compile and run by click of a button. So I started with python. But I think BASIC would be easier to teach. This will allow me to do that.
How's that going? I learned on BASIC around 1990 but it was cool then because you could do things that were in-line with the fun/game state of the art. Today what you can do in BASIC is "boring" compared to the most "basic" fun the kid can have on the iPad. Are you finding traction? Asking for my son who's currently 4 months :)
We just started. It takes time for it to click. But we are making progress. I enjoy seeing his face light up when he writes something that works as intended.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was confused for a minute why the British Broadcasting Corporation was developing a BASIC editor
It's for the BBC Micro. Which really _is_ named after the British Broadcasting Corporation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
I've never seen one of these in person or in emulation, but on seeing the terminal font, I was immediately and subliminally motivated to type:
PRINT "LOOK AROUND YOU ";
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#26So, one of the authors here: we just announced this site on https://twitter.com/bbcmicrobot/status/1333496146400985088 after being caught a little off-guard with this HN post! We still have a bunch of things to improve on, so please let us know and file issues ( https://github.com/mattgodbolt/owlet-editor/issues ) and we'll try and improve things! Thanks!
This is cool. It would be great if the editor linked to good docs/walkthroughs.
That's definitely the hope. The Examples tab is supposed to be more of that, currently we hacked it to point at the more complex demos, but we have some ideas on making more "tutorial" like content.
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#27This is great, BBC Micro Bot is the best bot on the internet :-). Now they make the entry barrier even lower.
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#2810 PRINT doesn't seem to be working for me > 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
Isn't that just for the Commodore machines/petscii?
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#29So, one of the authors here: we just announced this site on https://twitter.com/bbcmicrobot/status/1333496146400985088 after being caught a little off-guard with this HN post! We still have a bunch of things to improve on, so please let us know and file issues ( https://github.com/mattgodbolt/owlet-editor/issues ) and we'll try and improve things! Thanks!
I never had a BBC Micro having grown in up the US. I was happy to discover that the BASIC on it is close to the Microsoft implementations that I am familiar with.
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#3010 I=I+.3:J=J+.34:H=ABS(SIN(I)* 27):W=ABS(SIN(J)* 27) 20 PRINT TAB(H)"HELLO":PRINT TAB(W)"WORLD":GOTO10
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