@Qwerty, what projects are you working on or will be working on. I think there are a few things we both have planned that I think we should share notes on. Most notably is the Axe compiler in which I'm starting to get some of the groundwork up.

I was just going through some other stats and one streak we need to keep up is at least 10,000 new posts per month. Last month we got 10,044 posts which just barely made it. Last time we were under 10,000 was in September. Also we almost made 1,000,000!!!  page views in March. We were just under with 943192 views. Perhaps in the near future we can reach this benchmark if we have enough cool projects. Keep up the good work everyone 

Whenever I see stuff like this, I think of how I can apply good programming practices to real life situations. Lets start with how I learned TI BASIC. I did not know that there was any sort of online tutorials and the such when I started. I just pushed the pgrm button on my calc and just started doing random things. After many Err Syntax and Err Arguments, stuff started happening. Through this trial and error I learned my very first programming language.

Then later on I started learning z80 asm. Now for this I got help with online tutorials because it is almost impossible to do on your own. Even still when I started to branch off from the example programs, failure confronted me all of the time in the form of crashing my calc. (honestly, you can't call yourself an asm coder if you haven't crashed your calc at least a 100 times ) But by experimenting and failing, I was able to learn my first assembly language. After this I started to learn many more asm languages and applied what I already knew.

Last off is true if you ever tried to learn C/C++/Java/Python/etc... In tutorials you are often encouraged to produce compile/runtime errors to see what happens. That way you know how to respond when you face difficult situations. That is what I consider a prime example of learning by failing. Now if only real life was like learning to program, then you would be encouraged to make mistakes that way you could learn. And finally, if you never make mistakes, then you are not educated nor experienced because you know of only half of what is life.

Many of you here have requested a java virtual machine for the Prizm. (most notably Ashbad  ) Well I have been studying my java bytecode and I believe that this is quite possible. If you did not know, java bytecode is a stack oriented language in which the Prizm excels at. Now I did not find any of the jazelle extensions that the arm has, but it doesn't mean that java is impossible. What can be done is code the proper functions for each of the instructions, some of which would only take 1 SH3 instruction. The other thing to do is remove all of those fancy, but unnecessary features of the JVM. Stuff like malicious code testing and maybe partial garbage collecting. So right now I'm kind of busy with about 4 other Prizm projects that I'm working on, but during the summer or maybe after the AP exams, I will have time to get started on this.


EDIT: Changed topic title to include the project name

I wish I knew a female programmer my age irl...

Yes, I know. We all do

I'll tell you if there is a girl in my programming class next year.

Logos are always cool to place at the beginning of programs if they don't take up too much size. My personal favorite has been calc84maniacs's logo at the beginning of Chip's Challenge.

20 KILLED IS BS its like about 20,000.
but i have no idea why you guys think its such a HUGE disaster!
Look,no offense but its only a tiny bit of people and a pwuny patch of land! there are 10⁹X6 people sot thats bsically some random citty with one person dead in it.
besides supernove explosions blow off 10⁴⁵  joules of energy or10²⁸x the average atom bomb.
of course no number is big, they are about a gazillion numbers bigger than a googleplex even!
earthquakes do 10⁶ times as mucha a nuke.
and its only humans who died ,and there were going to be gone anyway. they were gone for billions of years before.

I find your post extremely offensive to those who are currently suffering in Japan or have family or friends there. I'm asking you to please edit the content of your post and to be more considerate to other people and lives

Ah ok. How would it be if someone made a language like Axe? Would we be able to do stuff like Getkey(45) and the compiler would translate back to a machine code-compatible format?

Now that you mention it, doing Getkey(45) should automatically translate the 45 value (but it would be a different, faster routine that only checks for that one key, unless it is a multiple key press test then it would be the original routine still). The k() instruction would be for more like if you used code like this.
:Getkey->A
:if A= k(45)
:blah
:if A= k(12)
:blah
I did realize one conflict if you said something like Locate 1,1,A and A happens to hold a keycode. In that case the internal keycode would be displayed instead of the mnemonic. So if you do k() on a non-constant variable, it will be a run time translation instead of a compile time one. If you do k() on a variable that contains a multiple keypress code, unfortunately null will be returned because it is impossible to translate that on variable data.