A month of blogging about programming fundamentals

Originally published on 31 May 2011 by Carl Mäsak.

I got it into my head to make a short-ish blog post every day during June, building up programming knowledge from the very basics into something that could be used for everyday programming.

The target audience: let’s say a highschooler wanting to get into programming. Someone who doesn’t care that it’s called “conditional”, but who will call it an if for a couple of years to come at least. But I imagine the posts might be enjoyable for other readers as well; not least those who want to get into Raku but to whom the synopses are just too information-dense and imposing.

I plan to introduce one, sometimes two, concepts a day and just show what you can do with them. Every five days or so I will write a slightly longer piece of code pulling together those concepts. Most often into a game or other. (I owe much of my computer interest to this book, which I perused with great interest during high school.)

I only have half a plan so far, but that’s OK. It looks like this:

• I/O (say and prompt)
• variables
• if statements
• simple loops
• guess a number between 1 and 100
• string concatenation and x``
• arithmetic
• substr``
• given statement
• moon lander
• arrays
• for loops
• .push et al
• .comb``
• chomp!

Looking forward to a month of no-nonsense educational Raku blogging!