Try this in the đ development version of BASIC Anywhere Machine.
Who likes looking up statement/function statements (or code blocks) to whenever does not remember the precise syntax? These buttons (very much a work in progress) will insert template code.
The Joyful Programmer surprised me with a gift of advertising artwork for BAM.
Although he initially quickly created these three works of art as just a funny and silly story, shared with the the BAM Discord community, on how I "lured him into BAM", the images are so good that The Joyful Programmer took some extra time to add some polish for BAM advertising use.
I really love these three works of art, and I just cannot wait until an advertising plan/opportunity to share them:
To compare the difference between the current "production" implementation of CIRCLE and the "development" implementation of CIRCLE, try running the "Flower Wheel" program:
Communicating anything and processing (of the cognitive kind) anything, these things do not come by easily for me. I find these things exhausting.
Using the right tool for the job helps me immensely. However, the right tool for me is often times only the right tool for a subset of tasks.
Since I started the BASIC Anywhere Machine project in December 2020, I have found myself in a continuous struggle of refactoring workflow and choice of "tools" to try and reduce cognitive and sensory overload.
Over the course of that time, I've taken a lot of flack over communications when, really, I have no idea how to communicate anything.
So here's the plan:
Blogger (i.e. this blog) will be my go to communication platform for writing and sharing. It is for me the best tool for the job of writing. I rely heavily on formatting features to help organize my thoughts. I cannot stand markup as it is too distracting.
I had thought that Reddit would be good as a primary communication platform, but it seems to require an app on mobile devices, and requires an account for Windows XP (as reported by one individual.)
I generally really like it, for many reasons I haven't quite yet figured out. However, I have figured out that I really appreciate how a post in Reddit can easily be shared via "cross-posts" to other communities on Reddit. I like this idea: "cross-pollination" of communities.For every blog item, there will be a matching post in this Reddit.
I find discord a bit overwhelming (everything is a shiny object), but the GotBASIC channel has got my attention something silly. I know of nothing else that does the job of "celebrating BASIC" as well. So whatever challenges I have with Discord, that is totally worth it.I'm pretty sure every blog item will have a matching post in the "bam" sub-channel in GotBASIC.
Although this also screams "celebrating BASIC", and I find it much less overwhelming than discord, it is a really big bucket that makes it challenging to focus on a particular context. I do love to reminisce on all things BASIC, and this group is stellar for being quite active: it is a very large community, so there is always very good stuff to find every day.Here, I'll only post links to BAM programs for running and for viewing source code.If somebody shares a program in this group and I port that program to BAM, I'll share that program as a comment to the OP in the Facebook Group.
Ditto (BASIC Programming Language Facebook Group)
Although a small and not very active community it is a nice focus on "Retro Programming". I do find it a little bit challenging to communicate there because formatting is done with markdown, which I cannot stand because I rely heavily on WYSIWYG formatting to organize my writing/thoughts and markup really painfully distracts me.There, I'll only post about programs or BAM enhancements that support the scope of "retro programming".
That is pretty much a dormant forum except for occasional posts be two or three of us. Although the WYSIWYG editor is nice, the advertisements are a little bit annoying.I post there as I post to RetroCoders because it is worth trying to give anything good for BASIC some kind of pulse.
This is a great community. When created BAM, the original intent was to create a sidekick for QB64 for porting QB64 programs to the web. Despite lack of interest in BAM in huge interest in QBJS (for porting QB64 programs to the web), the community is very helpful in explaining to me how the QB64 BASIC works for when I'm attempting to create compatible statements/functions, and/or provide workaround code.Although the community is generally very welcoming of BAM-related posts, there isn't much point in my sharing anything BAM-related in the forum unless it is to provide context when I'm trying to understand how QB64 works.
Prologue:
From "Administrator", some guy running a forum I have no interest in (because of him and how he is), some guy who seemingly relishes every opportunity to demean/berate/bully/attack me and the things I find interesting, he writes about me:
and main question is what he made...what ?
he use two open source projects packed it and B.A.M was born !
really this is developer ?
also he never made any program by himself in BAM from the ground
and tell us ...i made this example .and so on and on...Ouch. Why he's attacking me behind my back when I've done nothing to him bewilders me something silly. Self-confidence issues? Who knows? Me, that just gives me an idea about something to write about.
About Me
I'm a career (since 1995) software developer and systems analyst, now a self-employed consultant. I'm an agile programming and documentation disciple, and I've been involved in all aspects of the software development life-cycle.
Working with Gupta Team Developer (aka Gupta SQLWindows) has been my bread and butter since 1995 and to this day. Most of my experience is with Oracle back-end, but I'm also experienced with Gupta SQLBase back-ends.
I've also got heavy-duty experience using wikis as single-source information for documentation and all things software-development life-cycle, and as context-sensitive help engines.
I'm at my happiest enhancing/supporting complex systems for government agencies (focused on project management related to new construction and major renovations, facilities management, contract management, tender management, financial administration, etc.), doing Gupta Team Developer programming.
At home, I enjoy hobby programming. Being a "Chromebooks" only household, I find myself much happier living in a web browser than running traditional software. TiddlyWiki "programming" is, to me, the most enjoyable and fascinating experience at home.
Enter BASIC Anywhere Machine
All that said, BASIC has always been the one tugging at my heartstrings. Hence BASIC Anywhere Machine: I get to do a kind of programming that is ridiculously enjoyable, with the goal of helping to keep BASIC relevant today, and supporting that BASIC with software development life-cycle things we might not normally see with any programming language's IDE, let alone BASIC.
When you really look at BASIC Anywhere Machine, you'll see a TiddlyWiki instance that looks nothing like TiddlyWiki. Other than using a TiddlyWiki Codemirror Plugin, all you see is my programming with what I call "TW Script" (TiddlyWiki widgets, transclusion, filtering, etc.), along with HTML and CSS.
The BASIC interpreter is wwwBASIC, which I've embedded in BAM and significantly enhanced. All of those enhancements requiring javascript programming, and I heavily dislike javascript (I appreciate the awesome work done with it, and the awesome folk talented in it, but I cannot stand looking javascript in the eyeballs.) I will suffer javascript, though, for the mission: BAM.
Busy enhancing/debugging BAM, I have only been able to write a few of my own BASIC programs in it. Much of my BASIC programming has been getting other folk's BASIC programs working in BAM, in order to test and improve BASIC Anywhere Machine. You'll find mostly ported and/or modded programs in my published programs, but you'll find some in there that are original programs by me. (For every program, the source code is displayed under the console window.)
Oops, I've got to cut it short there. Must make my lunch before getting back to work !
I have created three Google Groups, all embedded in the BASIC Anywhere Machine website's related pages, to support BASIC Anywhere Machine users who are interested in joining:
Just a summary of the types of documentation I am, or will be, putting together with TiddlyWiki instances. These are types of documentation I'd expect to find, in general, for any kind of software development project.
Started and ongoing:
BASIC Anywhere Machine embeds an enhanced version of wwwBASIC. To monitor enhancements, keep an eye on the wwwBASIC Enhancements page.
I've added three new string functions to the version of wwwBasic embedded in BASIC Anywhere Machine: NOW$, TIME$, and DATE$. (See the screenshot below.)
Try it out: BASIC Anywhere Machine
Keep track of progress and get information at the project website.
Make sure to keep an eye on the evolving BASIC Anywhere Machine Programmer's Reference.
A port and mod of a program shared by Ardi Ardi with the "BASIC Programming Language" Facebook group via this post . This program ...
