Sniff Programming

A programming language to help Scratch-ers to move from blocks to text. Now on BBC Microbit! (If you're prefer the info without the opinion, follow @Sniff_Ed)

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@Heidi_Colthup @deputygrocott Barry lit a fruit?

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@benwohl Nonfiction? Find a suitable publisher. Download their proposal form. Fill it in. They’ll want table of contents, sample chapter, and breakdown of target audience. Knowing an author with them doesn’t hurt . There’s not much money in it though. (10% of revenue on 2000copies?)

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Guess the year...

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@IAmKatharineC Break the space into 6 or so panels. One key idea in each. Don’t worry about getting in every detail - it’s there to draw people in. Rather than be read line by line. you’ll be there to answer any questions. Make everything readable from 2m away.

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@MathsWithJim @whaleygeek @Average_Maker That’s why I’d use $HOME instead. Just in case....

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@JessJessFisher yes… only the monarch can be alive & on notes.

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@bankofengland Liking the suggestions for Franklin and Hooke. As long as its not Lovelace it’s all good. (Though given her drug abuse the £50 is kind of appropriate).

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@falshubaily @bankofengland Which is why he was on the 1 pound note for many years. He’s had his (rightly deserved) turn!

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@issyhowie @bankofengland Why would you put Lovelace anywhere near the other two? As you note, the others made great contributions. Yet for Lovelace you just throw out her name, because she’s “sort of famous”.

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@veryalien There are versions in sniff for arduino and flotilla. Got your email. I’ve been tied up on other project recently but I’ll get you a copy of the code Tomorrow.

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@CatLamin @Raspberry_Pi Pdp11 & is 11/780? From which we get all unix. Personally got a soft spot for sun 3/60. And NeXT cube from which we get web and modern Mac.

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@Gadgetoid @AppleSupport Phone also doesn’t support upside down portrait. iPad does! V. Useful for using while stuff plugged in

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@MarmiteJunction @Gadgetoid Blocks are great when you don’t know what you want.... but typing and learning syntax is the easy bit of programming! Otherwise you end up with a Chinese’s typewriter!

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RT @UoYElecEng: 10 Greville Bloodworth Scholarships worth £2,500 each available for people coming to study MSc Engineering Management. https://t.co/bBWcuRVaMO Deadline 30th April

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@MrTomsWorld Wrangled indeed! They’re horrid to open up (but easy fix when you get in there). Weren’t you tempted to wait for smoke, just cause it looks awesome!!!

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@digitalmaverick Pretty sure every 15yr old can figure out that an ‘assessed element’ that doesn’t contribute to mark is actually non-assessed element => is not an element.

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@pknighton67 @Baggiepr @MWimpennyS Nothing wrong with blocks conceptually. In fact sniff proves how expressive scratch is. But blocks are just too slow/bulky for larger progs. Chinese typewriter!

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@seeedstudio Fitting in the original case was always the problem with his one… (@jerwoodgallery)

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@whaleygeek @PeterOnion Non of those new fangled cursor keys for me! Way too slow… hjkl forever. (And more seriously
LaTeX is still the only way to write longer documents)