New Awards Appy August, and Laudable Learner in PHP
I got this award for doing five exercises in an app-building language. What exactly is an app-building language. Not sure so I went searching. I found a post about it from exercism back in 2023.
Well it can mean a number of things:
- Web applications, the bread and butter of a lot of our days now
- Native apps like those that run on your phone or tablet
- Desktop apps that directly run on your Windows, Mac or Linux operating system
- Domain specific applications
- Business applications
- And more!
So what are the languages?
We’re looking at a whopping 14 languages: ABAP, CoffeeScript, Dart, Delphi, Elm, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Objective-C, PHP, PureScript, ReasonML, Swift and TypeScript.
Seems like GO should be on the list but I probably got it for PHP. It looks like there was a whole year of awards, and they are still active.
Do I want to see if I can get another month award? The languages for September are not favorites. I could maybe try AWK. If I do it seems like I am supposed to do Gigasecond, Atbash Cipher, Darts, Luhn, and Series exercises. I don’t know anything about AWK but it sounds better than Forth and Perl variants.
Looking back at my awards I do have Analytical April and Object Oriented October, so I am already a quarter of the way there.
I also got this one for finishing half of the exercises on the PHP track. PHP turned out to be quite a bit nicer than I expected, but I still haven’t got a working debugger with it, and I had to figure out how to get PHP Unit running more than once. Not sure what I am going to do when I get to exercises where echoing variables won’t cut it.
I do have the physical make code arcade player now. I haven’t done anything with it yet. I still need to get compiling working locally, and set up the device. I think I want to try making a no-name Tetris for it.