On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 8:07 PM cilz <cilz...@cilzone.fr> wrote: > > I guess it's microAlg which you can find here: > http://microalg.info/ > I' dont know if there is an english translation of the website which is > french.
Hi, very glad that MicroAlg left some memories here and there! The website, all the keywords, documentation is French only. MicroAlg is a language directly embedded in PicoLisp (my student had access to all PicoLisp syms). On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 11:20 AM pd <eukel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > yes, that it is. A very interesting project specially for education Thanks for your interest. The project is now stopped because Python must now be used in high school in France. If ever you are in a French speaking env and are interested in teaching I'd be glad to chat. On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 11:37 AM Nehal <nehalsingha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Indeed this website is wonderful. Many thanks! It was quite some hard work for me who is not a full time dev. Please note that I spent more time on the language itself and the tooling than on the website! > However I am looking for something only based in PicoLisp. Indeed MicroAlg is not what you are looking for. But let me make some suggestions: 1) Don't underestimate the (natural) language barrier. Many of my students were glad the language was in French. But your students may be good enough at reading/writing English. 2) Don't understimate the power of syntax highlighting (rainbow parens, delimiters and delimited sections, and keywords). You'll be happy to be able to debug a program in 10ms. 3) Don't underestimate the fun that kids can have in a playground. You want you students to work with a practical language, with real applications. This is very nice but may not be really needed at first. Toy programs with text display, with a turtle, with shapes to draw… could be enough. 4) Deployment is important too. Try to make it easy. Thank to Jon Kleiser I was able to make the snippets run in the browser too, which was a bliss. Have fun! chri -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
