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Say "hello world" your own way.

Ben Sinclair on February 19, 2018

When you're learning a new language, you start with, "hello world". It's tradition, just a thing that you do - though most of us don't actually kn...
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Antonio Radovcic

I made an infinite-improbability-drive whenever I learn a new thing like Processing, OpenFrameworks or a Game-Engine.

This is the web-version: niorad.com/lab/h2g2/

I made derivates in Unity, Processing, Java for Mobile, oF, C & SDL2 and this one in 2010 (omg remember MooTools…)

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Ben Sinclair

That's neat!

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Antonio Radovcic

Oh, the Idea is: The more active the drive is, the less probable it is that the text is readable.

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Dave Cridland

I confess to not having done this in a while, but mine's a web server.

Web servers are pretty easy to start with - go for HTTP/0.9 (ie, bare GET requests) and static files, and go from there. Adding TLS, async networking and/or threading, CGI (I told you I've not done this in a while) all added lots of systems-programming tasks.

But that only works for me as a systems programmer. I should really learn something similarly complex to do in UI-side programming - suggestions really welcome.

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Ben Sinclair

That's more complex than my stuff, but I like the idea because it's something simple you can build more and more bits on over time.