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Hello. I'm teaching my 8-year-old daughter to program with decker this summer... Or at least attempting to. :)
As a side effect, I'm making the lessons available on YouTube and as interactive decks.
The first lesson is a simple number-guessing game: hilo-tutor.deck
Content for future lessons will primarily be guided by what she's interested in (at least for now), but I'm also open to requests...
edit: moved to my main YouTube channel
Lesson 2: Tic Tac Toe
Make a simple version of the game, with 2 human players. Covers making canvas widgets with the drawing tools, copying images between canvases, and other fun tricks.
Deck: ttt-1-basics
Nice video!
The ".." notation can simplify a few of these scripts a bit. Instead of writing
each c in selected c.draggable:0 end
You can use this shorthand:
selected..draggable:0
The same goes for this example:
each w in cx,co w.show:"none" end
Form a list, and then use ".." notation to write the attribute for each element in the list:
(cx,co)..show:"none"
I made a timer.deck ... the deck for this one isn't a tutorial. Rather, the video has a live coding session in which I make it, plus a sales pitch for why I think people should learn decker at all.
I agree that Decker is really in a sweet spot for making things. Other tools might have fancier graphics or richer audio or more nuanced painting tools or a faster scripting language, but Decker’s tools are flexible enough that I can make a wide range of things while also being simple enough that I can spend my energy on making things interesting rather than making them fun.
This week I’ve been investigating the WebAudio APIs for generating and playing sound in the browser, and it’s taken me several hours to get something that produces any output at all. Something that I built really quickly in Native Decker, by starting with a simple solution and building up to what I wanted, took me far longer and involved learning a whole different set of APIs once I got beyond the basic usage.
