The same fellow who created an OpenGL flight simulator in Liberty BASIC has taken it a step further by creating a spaceflight simulator with a map editor. Very neat!
Check it out
Showing posts with label graphics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graphics. Show all posts
Fractals in a page of code
What's great about BASIC and languages like it is that you don't have a write a lot of code that has nothing to do with what you're trying to create (like Java for example). It should be really easy to throw together a little code and play with graphics. Programming should be fun, not a burden.
Here is a thread that shows how to draw fractals in less than a page of BASIC.
Click to read the thread
Here is a thread that shows how to draw fractals in less than a page of BASIC.
Click to read the thread
Earth shaking!
Here's a neat example of BASIC programming which plots earthquake data graphically. What's cool about this is that it demonstrates graphics, interfacing with VBScript, and getting information off the Internet. Add to this that it's not a large program.
Who says you can't do that in BASIC?
Over at the Liberty BASIC forum on Conforums they've announced a programmer of the month for September. Chung, a prolific Liberty BASIC programmer has created an OpenGL flight simulator in Liberty BASIC. Very, very nice!
Click to read the announcement and make sure to follow the link to Chung's site to see the flight simulator!
Web Programming for Fun
There has always been a culture of complexity-worship in the programming community. Some people seem to think that the Internet is a good excuse to take this even farther. This takes the fun out of programming, and it scares a lot of people away from even trying it. We think that this needs to be pushed back against. One of our goals in creating Run BASIC has been to make web development so easy that anyone can do it. As a language designed to make programming simple, BASIC is an ideal platform for realizing this idea.
We need a culture of simplicity. The computer should do that hard stuff for you. For example web application servers manage user sessions and processes, and these are things that require special administration by an expert in most web systems. With Run BASIC, except for a couple of fields in the Preferences tab that let you configure how long the timeouts are for sessions and processes, you don't really need to know anything about these. It's all done for you automatically.
Or for example let's say you want to draw graphics? There are no add-ons that you have to locate, download, and install with Run BASIC. It's all built right in, and just a few lines of code can draw some meaningful graphics into your web apps.
It's easy, and it's fun.
We need a culture of simplicity. The computer should do that hard stuff for you. For example web application servers manage user sessions and processes, and these are things that require special administration by an expert in most web systems. With Run BASIC, except for a couple of fields in the Preferences tab that let you configure how long the timeouts are for sessions and processes, you don't really need to know anything about these. It's all done for you automatically.
Or for example let's say you want to draw graphics? There are no add-ons that you have to locate, download, and install with Run BASIC. It's all built right in, and just a few lines of code can draw some meaningful graphics into your web apps.
It's easy, and it's fun.
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