Tod Hansmann
2014-09-29 21:47:44 UTC
Chip8 is sort of a thing a few of us in my community do. It's a video game
VM specification from the 70s. It got implemented on a number of platforms
over the years, and extended to SuperChip8 later.
My friend has done some work with a very nice assembler (not like your
typical assembler) in a browser based IDE chain and is running a gamejam
over all of next month.
http://octojam.com/
It's free to participate and is quite fun. If such is your thing, it is a
great project to introduce kids to programming, and it teaches in a
resource-constrained way. If you'd like to chat with the creator about it,
he can be found on irc://irc.esper.net/#todandlorna as RodgerTheGreat, and
some of the rest of us can help a bit (be warned, we expect some basic
thinking, or we will tell you that you're being lazy, but we take all skill
levels that are patient enough).
He has tons of examples and several guides from beginner to advanced topics
in the git repo linked to on the site. It's all quite nice.
Cheers,
-Tod Hansmann
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VM specification from the 70s. It got implemented on a number of platforms
over the years, and extended to SuperChip8 later.
My friend has done some work with a very nice assembler (not like your
typical assembler) in a browser based IDE chain and is running a gamejam
over all of next month.
http://octojam.com/
It's free to participate and is quite fun. If such is your thing, it is a
great project to introduce kids to programming, and it teaches in a
resource-constrained way. If you'd like to chat with the creator about it,
he can be found on irc://irc.esper.net/#todandlorna as RodgerTheGreat, and
some of the rest of us can help a bit (be warned, we expect some basic
thinking, or we will tell you that you're being lazy, but we take all skill
levels that are patient enough).
He has tons of examples and several guides from beginner to advanced topics
in the git repo linked to on the site. It's all quite nice.
Cheers,
-Tod Hansmann
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