09-24-2022, 12:23 PM
(09-24-2022, 04:21 AM)mnrvovrfc Wrote: Things keep reminding that QB64PE should have a "smartphone" edition! This "micro:bit" could be better than Java, or am I misunderstanding something? Because a child wouldn't go near Java to do anything. It has to be a really high-level programming language. For example, the child wouldn't care a lot about the appearance of the gun and the invaders in a "Space Invaders" clone, or how to get those "twisty" alien missiles in one mode of the game for Atari 2600...
https://staging.qb64phoenix.com/showthread.php?tid=912
Felt I had to read this first post, itching because I missed a detail. But this "micro:bit" is for "smartphone" or it comes with its own hardware? (scratch head)
oh... I suppose there could be some confusion due to how I wrote my posts. The micro bit is a micro-concotroller gadget that is a tiny little computer with a display 5 x5 display of LEDS and a set of controller switches, you can seemingly add an additional set of switches as well. It uses a USB style port to connect to any device able to talk to it and there is a suite of programs available to program write and test programs for it. Soem folks are seemingly writing programs for it in BASIC.
The only relation to this program is I wanted to show my kid how easy it was to write a space invaders game in BASIC because how fast they were able to knock one out for that device with a mixture of smalltalk and javascript. I looked at the more complex part of the code and said... this would be easier in BASIC.