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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 "; GOTO 10
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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.
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 :)
I got an old game from a magazine and pasted into the editor, didn't like for some reason. edit:it was leading spaces before the line numbers that had broken it - got rid of them and it works. OK so take this code below, strip off the leading spaces (thats important) and paste it into the box. Its a helicopter game, controls are Z,X,M,K for left, right, up and down. You have to collect the asterixes. The controls won…
I'm sure you really mean print it out then type it in, line by line.
So, 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.
So, 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.
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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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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 "; GOTO 10
I got an old game from a magazine and pasted into the editor, didn't like for some reason. edit:it was leading spaces before the line numbers that had broken it - got rid of them and it works. OK so take this code below, strip off the leading spaces (thats important) and paste it into the box. Its a helicopter game, controls are Z,X,M,K for left, right, up and down. You have to collect the asterixes. The controls won…
> OK so take this code below, strip off the leading spaces (thats important) and paste it into the box. I'm sure you really mean print it out then type it in, line by line.