On 21/12/2012 7:07 PM, Amirouche Boubekki wrote:
Héllo,


2012/12/22 Simon Forman <forman.si...@gmail.com
<mailto:forman.si...@gmail.com>>

    Pigeon Computer 0.1 Initial (BETA) release

    Summary
    ============

    The Pigeon Computer is a simple but sophisticated system for learning
    and exploring the fundamentals of computers and programming.

    It is written to support a course or class (as yet pending) to learn
    programming from the bit to the compiler.

    There is a DRAFT manual and a Pigeon User Interface that includes:

       * An assembler for the ATmega328P micro-controller.
       * A polymorphic meta-compiler.
       * Forth-like firmware in assembly.
       * Simple high-level language for assembly control structures.
       * A virtual computer that illustrates Functional Programming.

    Source code is released under the GPL (v3) and is hosted on Github:
    https://github.com/PhoenixBureau/PigeonComputer

    The manual is online in HTML form here:
    http://phoenixbureau.github.com/PigeonComputer/

    Mailing list:
    https://groups.google.com/d/forum/pigeoncomputer

    It has been tested on Linux with Python 2.7, YMMV.

    I'm releasing it now because it's basically done even though it needs
    polish and I'm just too excited about it.  Happy End of the World Day!


This sound fun!

Could you elaborate a bit in simple words what it is and what's the
common way to interact with the system ? What do you mean by «
Forth-like firmware in assembly » ? Is there a GUI ? Does it feels like
being a hipster like in the '50s or before and breaking the 1 billion
dollar thing ?

Of course the little tutorial I stripped and read a bit gives some of
the responses.

Thanks

Amirouche


      - - -

    Whew!  If you are still reading, thank you.  There is a lot more to be
    done and I am hoping to form classes in early January 2013.  If you
    are interested please email me at forman.si...@gmail.com
    <mailto:forman.si...@gmail.com>

    You can also participate on Github and join the mailing list.
       * https://github.com/PhoenixBureau/PigeonComputer
       * https://groups.google.com/d/forum/pigeoncomputer

    Warm regards,
    ~Simon P. Forman
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The Pigeon would appear to have objectives similar to those of the Raspberry Pi Project, which uses an ARM processor and has operational both Python 2.7 and Python 3.2. The Raspberry Pi Foundation can be reached at: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/

Colin W.


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