LCD display / Snake game

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More crazy experiments on Coda!
(it glitches, but it works)

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This is so cool! Reminds me of my high school days playing snake on my TI-82 graphing calculator :grinning:

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Heh. We didn’t have those calculators here, not ubiquitously at least.

Also, I think it’s the first time ever in my 12+ year programming practice that I coded a snake.

BTW, just came up with a way of calling these experiments: Coda golf — like code golf, but with Coda :grin:

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This is really impressive @Paul_Danyliuk!

Thanks a ton for sharing!

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My record so far: 36.
Try to beat :slight_smile:

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You just blew my whole mind. :clap::clap::clap:

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thats quite impressive. does this require coda’s ‘actions’?

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Thanks! Yes, this heavily uses actions like ModifyRows to update the game state on each step, and also some hacks like two buttons pressing each other to implement a game loop (see WHILE loop implementation)

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nice. i take it you would not be able to do this in Notion right?

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I think not :slight_smile: Notion is mostly for journaling, its interactivity is limited (afaik you can make a button to insert a tree of blocks, but that’s it)

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I had a TI-80. No data port. So I had to program every game line-by-line (no downloading for me :slight_smile:)! On a related note, I bought a great-condition TI-84+ at Goodwill for $5.99 about a year ago…

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Wow $5.99! Just checked Amazon and the TI-82 is still going for $99.99 :slightly_smiling_face:

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I know! I don’t need a TI-84+. But for that price I couldn’t pass it up! I also bought a Casio FX-7400G Plus graphing calculator from Goodwill for $3.99. Batteries leaked so I had to do some cleanup. But it works!

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