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by Davespice
Wed Jul 15, 2015 1:04 pm
Forum: Astro Pi
Topic: So we were nominated for an Arthur award!
Replies: 3
Views: 1195

So we were nominated for an Arthur award!

... annually since 2005. We were up for the Space Achievement - Education and Outreach award. The nominees were: Space Studio Banbury Astro Pi ESA Rosetta Outreach Team We were invited to a lovely gala dinner at St George's Hall in Liverpool for it which took place last night. The ESA Rosetta team ...
by RST8
Wed Mar 11, 2015 1:47 pm
Forum: Teaching and learning resources
Topic: Minecraft Coding Club Resources
Replies: 2
Views: 1952

Minecraft Coding Club Resources

... the code relatively short whilst still doing something visible, whilst not being "clever" or abstract. The maze code is a straight lift from a Rosetta Wiki, modified to work with Minecraft, as is the fractal generator, these are examples where code can be treated as a "black box", where you ...
by jamesismagic
Sun Feb 08, 2015 1:17 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Doing somethin useful in idle time
Replies: 23
Views: 6925

Re: Doing somethin useful in idle time

... the numbers, how efficiently who knows! Perfect scenario: combine Pi's (and keep simply adding) to work on same problem for 'super power'. F@h/rosetta control panel a-la windows version, 24/7 folding. I'm a total Pi noob by the way.
by Jake Nixon
Mon Jan 26, 2015 6:53 pm
Forum: General programming discussion
Topic: Coding Exercises
Replies: 8
Views: 2878

Re: Coding Exercises

Forrrge wrote:
tufty wrote:… and rosettacode.org doesn't work for you?
Thanks, not seen that one before :)
I haven't seen Rosetta Code before either, but it looks really useful!
by jfskello
Thu Nov 13, 2014 9:46 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Flash Player
Replies: 19
Views: 2593

Re: Flash Player

... can do the internet and YouTube thing on my PC but there are occasions when it would have been nice to use the PI occasionaly to contact Philea or Rosetta! Many thanks all Jim
by docjim
Sat Mar 15, 2014 10:51 am
Forum: HATs and other add-ons
Topic: Gertboard AVR without Arduino IDE (howto) [now obsolete]
Replies: 21
Views: 28849

Re: Gertboard AVR without Arduino IDE (howto)

Thanks again. Yes, that's exactly what I wanted: a Rosetta stone to translate from gibberish to common-or-garden technospeak (rather than from complete gibberish to Englese technospeak). But it's going to take me a minute or two to get my head round ...
by tenochtitlanuk
Wed Feb 12, 2014 3:26 pm
Forum: Other programming languages
Topic: A program that pulls info from a webpage
Replies: 12
Views: 8625

Re: A program that pulls info from a webpage

If you look on the http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Web_scraping#Python Rosetta Code pages you'll find a very short & neat Python example, using urllib.
by Jim Manley
Wed Jan 22, 2014 1:41 am
Forum: Gaming
Topic: R-Pi Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG)
Replies: 312
Views: 96261

Re: R-Pi Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MM

... the intended scenario levels and that surfaces of planets, natural satellites (i.e., moons), asteroids, and comets (as the recent wake-up of the Rosetta spacecraft reminds us) can all serve as scenario locations. There's no reason why game play can't occur within a very localized area such as ...
by justcharlie
Mon May 13, 2013 5:18 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Bike Simulator - Cool Project
Replies: 4
Views: 3508

Re: Bike Simulator - Cool Project

... does this (called GoldSprint if I'm not mistaken), but it's PowerPC compatible and requires an older version of Mac OS X (like Snow Leopard, with Rosetta) in order to run. There's already a hardware interface for the sensors (magnets), the only issue right now is that the software hasn't been ...
by AMcS
Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:49 pm
Forum: Other programming languages
Topic: Basic on the system
Replies: 40
Views: 6712

Re: Basic on the system

... it is done in RISC OS BBC BASIC, and this makes a difference when talking about the RISC OS Version. Could you be more specific about things the Rosetta Code does that will not work in BBC BASIC on RISC OS. I have never used BBC BASIC for Windows, but I did read the documentation a few months ...
by DavidS
Tue Feb 19, 2013 4:51 pm
Forum: Other programming languages
Topic: Basic on the system
Replies: 40
Views: 6712

Re: Basic on the system

... is the use of SYS to call dll entries rather than software intrupts, and there where a couple others that I noticed yesterday while looking at Rosetta Code, though i can not seem to find them at the moment. I would actually have to look at the documentation for BBC BASIC for windows in order ...
by jojopi
Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:01 pm
Forum: Other programming languages
Topic: Basic on the system
Replies: 40
Views: 6712

Re: Basic on the system

... it is done in RISC OS BBC BASIC, and this makes a difference when talking about the RISC OS Version. Could you be more specific about things the Rosetta Code does that will not work in BBC BASIC on RISC OS. I have never used BBC BASIC for Windows, but I did read the documentation a few months ...
by RichardRussell
Thu Nov 15, 2012 11:29 pm
Forum: RISCOS
Topic: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code
Replies: 21
Views: 5035

Re: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code

Mainly, developers include libraries within their applications That's not necessarily such a bad idea, because it guarantees that the version of the library used by the application is the one with which it was developed and tested. On the other hand it means that if a bug in a library has subsequen...
by Steve Drain
Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:57 pm
Forum: RISCOS
Topic: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code
Replies: 21
Views: 5035

Re: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code

To create a 'shared resource' in Windows one would have to make it a DLL. It is quite possible to make BASIC libraries a shared resource for any BASIC program in RISC OS. I wrote a module[1] to support that way back in the mists of time, but it was taken up by only a handful of programmers, who hav...
by RichardRussell
Thu Nov 15, 2012 11:41 am
Forum: RISCOS
Topic: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code
Replies: 21
Views: 5035

Re: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code

You cannot count the keyword code, because that is a shared resource To create a 'shared resource' in Windows one would have to make it a DLL. From time to time I've been asked whether it would be possible to compile BBC BASIC code to a DLL, but it would be difficult to meet the requirement of bein...
by Steve Drain
Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:24 pm
Forum: RISCOS
Topic: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code
Replies: 21
Views: 5035

Re: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code

... a specific machine code routine within your program, then the size will quite possibly not be reduced. To bring this back on topic the number of Rosetta Code tasks solved in BBC BASIC is now in excess of 450, and should shortly overtake the current leading BASIC dialect - PureBASIC. I particularly ...
by RichardRussell
Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:54 pm
Forum: RISCOS
Topic: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code
Replies: 21
Views: 5035

Re: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code

... to the current discussion because BB4W libraries are commonly partly or mostly assembler code as well. To bring this back on topic the number of Rosetta Code tasks solved in BBC BASIC is now in excess of 450, and should shortly overtake the current leading BASIC dialect - PureBASIC. I particularly ...
by Steve Drain
Tue Nov 13, 2012 1:35 pm
Forum: RISCOS
Topic: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code
Replies: 21
Views: 5035

Re: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code

I have every respect for your technical achievements in Basalt, but it's taking BBC BASIC in a very different direction to that which I have been following, and goes against the philosophy of BBC BASIC as a 'lean and mean' language which I feel so strongly about and which I think was shared by Soph...
by RichardRussell
Sun Nov 11, 2012 11:06 pm
Forum: RISCOS
Topic: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code
Replies: 21
Views: 5035

Re: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code

To be brief, Basalt has dozens of function keywords I guess that's one of the main reasons why I'm not enthusiastic about it. One of the great strengths of BBC BASIC is that it isn't bloated like so many BASIC dialects are; only the essential and most commonly used functions are built into the core...
by Steve Drain
Sun Nov 11, 2012 8:56 pm
Forum: RISCOS
Topic: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code
Replies: 21
Views: 5035

Re: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code

... Basalt can set up callbacks with the CALL function. The current version can deal with strings of any length. It would be fun to go through the Rosetta tasks to see what could be done, but time is short.
by RichardRussell
Sun Nov 11, 2012 5:54 pm
Forum: RISCOS
Topic: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code
Replies: 21
Views: 5035

Re: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code

I have not seen a Rosetta task using interrupts yet - could you suggest one?
These BB4W solutions use timer interrupts:
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Atomic_updates#BBC_BASIC
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Events#BBC_BASIC
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Metered_con ... #BBC_BASIC

Richard.
by RichardRussell
Sun Nov 11, 2012 5:38 pm
Forum: RISCOS
Topic: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code
Replies: 21
Views: 5035

Re: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code

... into' the interpreter does impose some restrictions, such as being able to add new statements but not new functions . Some respects in which Rosetta Code tasks cannot be solved in ARM BASIC or Brandy are as follows: 1. Tasks which require First Class Function behaviour, e.g. being able to ...
by Steve Drain
Sun Nov 11, 2012 10:49 am
Forum: RISCOS
Topic: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code
Replies: 21
Views: 5035

Re: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code

... that, despite the ongoing efforts by the likes of Jonathan Harston, ARM BBC BASIC still lags so far behind the specification of BB4W. As far as Rosetta Code tasks are concerned a large number simply could not be solved in ARM BASIC or Brandy. The BBC BASIC solutions (over 440 at the last count) ...
by RichardRussell
Sat Nov 10, 2012 11:49 pm
Forum: RISCOS
Topic: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code
Replies: 21
Views: 5035

Re: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code

Any BB4W extensions used in Rosetta code make them non-BBC Basic and it is those examples that should be labelled as something other than BBC Basic! Completely untrue. The 'Wilson' and 'Russell' branches of BBC BASIC are equally deserving ...
by Steve Drain
Sat Nov 10, 2012 11:31 pm
Forum: RISCOS
Topic: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code
Replies: 21
Views: 5035

Re: BBC BASIC & Rosetta Code

BBC Basic V and VI are the last official versions supplied with BBC branded Acorn computers. Any BB4W extensions used in Rosetta code make them non-BBC Basic and it is those examples that should be labelled as something other than BBC Basic! Sawdust. I am sure Richard will have something ...

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