Pencil Code (programming language)

Pencil Code is an educational programming language and website. It allows programming using either Scratch-style block coding, or CoffeeScript. Code runs directly in the web browser and can be shared with others. The language centers on a model of a pencil programmatically drawing on a 2-dimensional screen, with the pencil cursor depicted visually as a turtle.

For the Fortran library for solving partial differential equations, see Pencil Code.

History

Pencil Code was created by David Bau and his son in 2013. It was inspired by Logo, the 1967 programming language for drawing on a screen using a Lisp-like programming language.[1] Google has funded improvements to Pencil Code via Google Summer of Code projects.[2]

References
  1. Bau, David (2013). Pencil Code : a programming primer (Second ed.). ISBN 978-1-4943-4744-4. OCLC 900971005.
  2. "Google Summer of Code wrap-up post: Pencil Code". Google Open Source Blog. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
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