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Emojicode - Code with emojis 😎 (Introduction)

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Let's make our code beautiful and attractive...
Let's code with emojis!

In this article I'll cover Introduction to Emojicode -> 1st article/blog of 3 part series.

What is this - programming in emojis 😕?

Yeahhh.. programming with emojis.
Emojicode is an open-source, strongly-typed programming language consisting of emojis created by Theo Weidmann.

Let's begin! 🤩

So before getting to the basics of programming, let me tell you where you can code this language.

  1. You can run your Emojicode programs locally by following the steps of installation on their main website: Install Locally
  2. You can start right away using the online editor of TIO: Online TIO Editor

Extension:

We write Emojicode programs in files with the extension .emojic or .🍇

Basic Structure:

All code will be inside 🏁 block. The 🏁 block indicates all the code that should run when the file is executed.
For larger programs, we use 🍇 and 🍉 to add more blocks.

🍇 --> the start of the code block
🍉 --> the end of the code block
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So, basic emojicode file will look like this:

🏁 🍇
  code here..
🍉
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Print stuff:

To print in Emojicode, we use the 😀 ❗️

😀 code to print.. ❗️
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Strings:

If you have ever worked with a programming language then you must have worked with strings. But for newbies - Strings are a form of data type for computer. Strings are pieces of text.

Strings in Emojicode has to be wrapped around 🔤
Here's an example of printing a string in emojicode:
example

Comments

Comments are lines of code that you don't want to execute. Comments can explain what the code is doing or leave instructions.
There are two types of comments:

  1. Single-line --> comment out a single line and starts with a 💭 in emojicode.
  2. Multi-line --> comment out multiple lines and starts with 💭🔜 and ends with 🔚💭 in emojicode. 
🏁 🍇
💭 single-line comment
💭 printing a string
  😀 🔤Practicing comments🔤❗️
  💭🔜 Multi-line comment 🔚💭
🍉
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TIP: Press Win + . key combination on windows or Control + Command + Spacebar on mac to bring the emoji keyboard.

emoji keyboard

Thank You! Stay Tuned for other parts :)

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Quinn Gibson •

I always love learning about wacky languages like this! BrainF and LOLCODE are particularly fun as well.

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LeafKn •

Indeed they are! They give much more motivation to code than other languages.

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Ricardo Ocampo •

I'm thinking about the actual use cases of programming languages likes this one haha

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Liftoff Studios •

Very true XD

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Sadullah TANRIKULU •

it's awesome, what an excellent idea. I'm giving 100% to this.

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LeafKn •

Thank You 😊!

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JSCoder •

Pulling in a Emoji seems like to much work =]

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LeafKn •

If you are on windows, then press win+. key combination and type the emoji to search and click - not that work! =]

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