Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-31 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis: > Thompson, David writes: > > Hi David, > >>> Do you know of real simple hello-world style "games" made with >>> chickadee, say just the bird moving from left to right, respond to arrow >>> press or space bar? >> >> I don't know of anyone that has done that. It'

need help for new guile-cairo release

2018-08-31 Thread Daniel Llorens
Hi Guilers, Cairo (https://cairographics.org/) is a popular, high level 2D drawing library. Andy Wingo wrote Guile bindings for it: guile-cairo. Cairo lets you draw directly to a bitmap, to SVG, to PDF, etc. and the Guile bindings cover most of the library. The only real competition might be

Mentoring who's who?

2018-08-31 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
Please reply to this email with details such: - mentor / mentoree - GMT+n - programming experience - interests

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-31 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
Le ven. 31 août 2018 à 13:33, Jan Nieuwenhuizen a écrit : > > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > > > And by the way, chickadee is an awesome piece of software: it is such a > > refreshing video game programming experience. > > I've been looking at chickadee and wondering if how to use that for a > learn t

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-31 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Thompson, David writes: Hi David, >> Do you know of real simple hello-world style "games" made with >> chickadee, say just the bird moving from left to right, respond to arrow >> press or space bar? > > I don't know of anyone that has done that. It's not hard to do, but I > think using something

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-31 Thread Thompson, David
Hi Jan, On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 7:32 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > >> And by the way, chickadee is an awesome piece of software: it is such a >> refreshing video game programming experience. > > I've been looking at chickadee and wondering if how to use that for a > le

more on nyacc extension languages

2018-08-31 Thread Matt Wette
Just goofing off a bit: scheme@(guile-user)> ,use (nyacc lang nx-lib) scheme@(guile-user)> (install-inline-language-evaluator) scheme@(guile-user)> ## scheme@(guile-user)> (define b (vector-ref a 2)) scheme@(guile-user)> ## scheme@(guile-user)> c $1 = 5 scheme@(guile-user)> (define d 1) scheme@

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-31 Thread Joshua Branson
Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > Joshua Branson writes: > >>> The common lisp bindings had some pretty nifty tools, so you might find >>> inspiration there. You can make a lot of difference with relatively >>> little effort. >> >> Can you elaborate? Do you mean I can make a lot of difference by

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-31 Thread Joshua Branson
Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > Joshua Branson writes: > >> It gets really interesting when you start telling these processes to >> transform the underlying data. They currently have a translator that >> translates an xml file into a directory tree. Imagine searching an html >> file with the "

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-31 Thread Joshua Branson
writes: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:42:51PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> >> Joshua Branson writes: >> >> > It gets really interesting when you start telling these processes to >> > transform the underlying data. They currently have a translator that >> > translates an xml file into

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-31 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > And by the way, chickadee is an awesome piece of software: it is such a > refreshing video game programming experience. I've been looking at chickadee and wondering if how to use that for a learn to program experience for childrden. Do you know of real simple hello-wor

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-31 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:42:51PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > Joshua Branson writes: > > > It gets really interesting when you start telling these processes to > > transform the underlying data. They currently have a translator that >