this is the result of two days of hacking during the weekend, the obvious inspiration is Codea. I and my son have fun with Codea but we can't use it often (we don't have an iPad at home), so I wrote this code. Later I realized that using an external editor was not working so I added a retro-computing alike editor, and now it is much easier for kids to modify and execute the program.
Everything is currently very work in progress, I hope I'll find more time to invest into this project, but even more I hope to get pull requests by interested parents that have children and are interested into teaching some programming.
EDIT: since I used most of the time hacking on the code I was not able to add some decent example. Please if you write some nice one drop me an email, pull request, whatever.
Thanks badboy! The editor was definitely the most fun part to write (but it need more love, there are a few bugs). Since the whole editor only uses setPixel() as basic primitive it will work the same in different operating systems that can be a good point. Probably could be easily extrapolated to be used into games for the same reasons.
this is the result of two days of hacking during the weekend, the obvious inspiration is Codea. I and my son have fun with Codea but we can't use it often (we don't have an iPad at home), so I wrote this code. Later I realized that using an external editor was not working so I added a retro-computing alike editor, and now it is much easier for kids to modify and execute the program.
Everything is currently very work in progress, I hope I'll find more time to invest into this project, but even more I hope to get pull requests by interested parents that have children and are interested into teaching some programming.
EDIT: since I used most of the time hacking on the code I was not able to add some decent example. Please if you write some nice one drop me an email, pull request, whatever.