ByteLegend VS processing

Schedule (all times UTC): // hosts: 🦁 Ana, 🤖 Nicolai, 🧑🏾‍🏫 Shar // topics: 💻 live code/exploration, 📣 talk, 💬 conversation, 🎮 game: 🤖💻 04:00 working on JUnit Pioneer - https://junit-pioneer.org/ 🤖📣 07:00 "Data-Oriented Programming in Java (21)" 🤖💬 08:00 Gavin Bierman: pattern matching 🤖💻 09:00 exploring JEPs on disallowing dynamic agents (451) and platform integrity (draft 8305968) 🤖💬 10:00 Ron Pressler: platform integrity and the on-ramp 🤖💻 11:00 exploring structured concurrency 🦁📣 12:00 "Growing up with Java" 🦁🎮 13:30 Byte Legend - https://bytelegend.com/ 🧑🏾‍🏫📣 16:00 "Java State of the Union" & "Why Community Matters" 🧑🏾‍🏫💬 17:00 Pratik Patel, Mohammed Aboullaite, Venkat Subramaniam, Andres Almiray, Ixchel Ruiz, Vincent Mayers 🤖💬 19:00 Brian Goetz 🤖💬 20:00 Gunnar Morling 🤖📣 21:00 "Java Next" 🤖💻 22:00 investigating the state of Valhalla 🤖💻 23:00 experimenting with string templates 🤖📣 00:00 talk: "Why don't they just... ?!" 🤖🎮 01:00 Slay the Spire (written in Java!) 🤖💻 02:00 modding Slay the Spire 🤖📣 05:00 "The SolutionFactory To Java's Problems" 🤖📣 06:00 "From Idea to IDE" 🤖💬 07:00 just chatting / AMA 🤖🛏️ 08:00 end

The closest thing that I can think of is https://bytelegend.com/.

Yes, there are tests. They are just not opensource yet. Have you checked the GitHub actions page? Every commit goes through a lot of checks and tests, including unit tests, integration tests, browser tests, and e2e tests. https://github.com/ByteLegend/ByteLegend/actions/workflows/check.yml

> By design, you should be open "IDE" chest to get enough gold to go to Git Island. Didn't you open that chest?

I now see there was a circle with a key that I was supposed to press to open the chest and get the gold. It wasn't obvious and since it didn't hinder progression I didn't realize like I had/should/could click that.

> ``` I'm learning programming in a game, come to JavaIsland coordinate (BJ, 94), open the chest with my invitation code 5ZwPT6OWwipmHRG, you and me can both get 500 gold. Join me at ByteLegend https://bytelegend.com ! ```

Where was I supposed to find this text?

> When you do the challenge, you actually create a pull request on github. There's some comments in the pull request telling you what's the issue in you code. However, I shouldn't have told you this if this is a well-desgined game UI. Thanks for the feedback!

Nothing in the PR comments indicates there is anything wrong:

"Your answer is being tested by CI. Click here to see more details."

"Congrats! Your answer passed our CI test. I will merge the pull request for you. Please keep challenging and enjoy programming!"

https://github.com/ByteLegendQuest/java-fix-method-passing-v...

I could only find the issue by clicking one of links for details and looking into the "check problems with code" logs to find that commit was missing a new line at the end of the file. Seems unlikely a programming beginner would look that far without being prompted.

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I disagree. There are so many creative tools that are now online that you can access from your browser that were not envisioned in the original web. It is obviously true that not EVERY website is about creation (but to expect that seems unreasonable?), but even Wikipedia is a collaborative project.

Examples include products from big vendors like Adobe's Photoshop, to smaller products like SketchUp, to more indy generative art tools like https://processing.org and Strudel (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39924210).

Would processing[0] be a good fit? It's designed to be easy to use and learn but powerful enough for professional use. Very quick to get cool stuff moving on a screen and the syntax is Java with a streamlined editing environment.

[0] https://processing.org/

I would personally use the language Processing. It's the one I use the most. And it's relatively easy to start drawing text, squares, and do other kinds of things. (It's kind of like java, but without all the boilerplate code)

Processing (P5) had this: you can select any string of text in its IDE anl search for it in the docs, and if it's one of the built-in functions or constants it will open the associated static html page that came installed with the software, so no internet nor server required. And despite being offline you can still navigate the docs too. This feels a lost basic skill in static site generation these days.

It was the only creative coding framework that had complete, offline documentation like that at the time I might add. OpenFrameworks is still mostly autogenerated stubs for example.

IMO it was one of the things that gave Processing an edge in educational contexts over all alternatives. I was pretty sad to see p5.js not fully continue that tradition and require that you go online to read the docs, and that it's not a static website but that text is rendered with javascript when you open it (still complete and with examples though).

https://processing.org/

https://p5js.org/

Processing is very cool, especially if you like graphics.

https://processing.org/

Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code. Since 2001, Processing has promoted software literacy within the visual arts and visual literacy within technology. There are tens of thousands of students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists who use Processing for learning and prototyping.

And it's not even their IDE. They just slapped some AVR compilers into Processing

https://processing.org/