[ANN] LittleCoder 0.4

Hello all,

http://www.danceliquid.com/LittleCoder/

Years ago, _why wrote an article titled "The Little Coder's
Predicament" where he suggests that it's a problem that programming is
not as accessible as it was in the Commodore 64 days.

I happen to agree with him, and as an attack on that problem I've
written some software.

What is it?
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LittleCoder is essentially a Ruby interpreter bolted on to DirectX.

It hopes to be a fun and easy way to do simple graphics on Windows for
kids of all ages.

Rather than expose the eternal foul suffering of DirectX directly, it
tries to wrap everything up into a lovely Rubyish facade that's all
smiles.

Pretty much everything has been traded in favor of the simplicity of
scripting it. Loading and displaying images is a one liner. Playing
sounds is a one liner. But there is still a bit of depth as it can
respond to mouse and keyboard input, and even do some animation.

It is far from complete, but a few of us have been using it to good
effect and I thought, 'the more the merrier'.

So check it out. It'll be fun!

Learn more
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Some examples and documentation are available as links from the main
page at http://www.danceliquid.com/LittleCoder/

Highest regards,
-Harold

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