Apr 25 2007

Hackety Hack

Published by Chris McAvoy at 9:15 pm under Ruby

Hackety Hack, a _why project. Just saw it on reddit. From the site:

In the 1980s, a language called BASIC swept the countryside. It was a language beginners could use to make their computer speak, play music. You could easily draw a big smiley face or a panda or whatever you like! But not just BASIC. Other languages like: LOGO and Pascal were right there on many computers.

In this century, you may have dozens of programming languages lurking on your machine. But how to use them?? A fundamental secret! Well, no more. We cannot stand for that. Hackety Hack will not stand to have you in the dark!!

Good stuff…_why is the perfect combination of creative & do-ative to get something like this done. Go get ‘em tiger.


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3 Responses to “Hackety Hack”

  1. # Nolaon 27 Apr 2007 at 5:50 pm

    Cool.. maybe now i can finally get my sister interested! hehe :)

  2. # Ian Bickingon 01 May 2007 at 2:02 pm

    Hackety Hack is pretty cool. I think it’s similar to Crunchy Frog in a lot of ways, but with better graphic design and a more irreverent core. But with just a little CSS and a good sense of humor, we COULD BRING THIS TO THE WORLD VIA THE XO! Oh, except it has to be translatable. Stupid languages-other-than-English.

  3. # Chris McAvoyon 01 May 2007 at 3:17 pm

    Yeah, HH made me think about ‘how could something like this work on the XO.’ It would be neat if HH were entirely web-based. You could program your own applications, but inside a web browser.

    Kind of like Pipes.

    I just came up with that within the past two minutes. I haven’t really thought it through, so take it with a grain of salt.

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