Sunday, March 14, 2010

Programming For The Newton

I've been toying with the idea of writing an app for the Newton. So I got a copy of Programming for the Newton. Bought it online from a bookstore in India. Cost me $24 plus $6 shipping and arrived in 6 days! If I were to send it cross-country by Canada Post it would cost me $12 and take at least 10 days.

Anyway, I've been reading the book and learning about NewtonScript. What a cool language. While the authors compare it to C and Pascal with enhancements, I see it more like modern Javascript. Variables aren't typed but their values are. NewtonScript's Frames and Slots seems like JSON with the added cool feature of having a function in a slot as well.

I haven't gotten far in the book but it is getting me excited about trying my hand it Newton programming. Of course I'll want to come up with something that hasn't been done on the Newton before. Hmm...

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  1. Did you get the accompanying CD that came with the "Programming for the Newton" book? The CD had some nice quicktime video tutorials on developing NewtonScript programs using NTK.
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  2. Yeah, it did come with the CD. Though I have to confess I really haven't put the time into Newton programming that I thought I would. Any programming in my "spare" time has been Android. Of course there's always retirement! Besides Newton programming I intend to learn some cobol and assembly on my TRS-80.
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