Photos from recent trip to Hornsea.

Code can be found at Shapes

Further modification produce different results for Shapes Colours

BBC Micro take on C64 10 Print one line random pattern generator.

10 MODE 0
20 N=RND(1):IF N > 0.5 THEN PRINT "/"; ELSE PRINT "\";
30 GOTO 20
RUN

Twitter Post

Created with Processing

Make learning programming fun

It is funny how things come around again, when I started learning to programming back in the 1980s on my 8 bit machines (ZX81, Acorn Electron, BBC Micro) I used to play with graphics a lot. It gave instant feedback and visually showed the results of things like recursion. I had great fun playing with Fractals and other procedural generated images.

Recently I discovered a YouTube channel and programming platform which took me right back to those days.

I made the switch from Bash shell to the FISH shell a couple of years ago now and never looked back.

Customization and auto-complete features was the killer features for me.

Jump to the 20 minute mark for the shell discussion if you want.

Video Source Destination Linux

Links

friendly interactive shell

ZSH

BASH

FISH vs ZSH

New retro game, looks worth getting a Amstrad CPC emulator setup to play it.

Video Source Retro Collection

Juan’s games: (https://www.usebox.net/jjm/)

Buy physical copies of these games:

Golden Tail

Kitsune Curse

Mr. Ee from Micro Power for the BBC Micro nice variation on the Pacman theme.

Play Online at BBC Mirco