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1."Hello World!" - making your first program

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jonne

1. The basic “Hello World!” program In this lesson we will learn the basics of how to make your first program on Pokitto. The program will put a simple text “Hello World!” on the Pokitto screen. We will be making the program in the super-simple mbed online tools! 2. Welcome to the “Mbed” ecosyste... ...Read more >>

2.Basic drawBitmap example

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jonne

Drawing a bitmap on the Pokitto screen In this example we draw a small Pokitto icon (by /u/trelemar @trelemar ) on the left upper corner (coordinates 0,0) of the Pokitto screen. The screen mode used is the default mode 2 , which is 110 pixels wide, 88 pixels high and has 16 colors Link to project... ...Read more >>

3.Reading Pokitto buttons

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jonne

Reading Pokitto Buttons In this example we read the state of Pokitto buttons (pressed or not pressed) in the most simple way possible. # #Project on Pokitto mbed Community Team page: https://os.mbed.com/teams/Pokitto-Community-Team/code/Buttons/ https://os.mbed.com/teams/Pokitto-Community-Team/co... ...Read more >>

4.Creating your own art - Piskel editor for Pokitto

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jonne

...artwork 2.5. Saving your artwork 2.6. Exporting your finished artwork to a Pokitto data file EXERCISE: Draw a picture and use it in the ‘draw bitmap’ tutorial 3.1. Creating the artwork 3.2. Ready for Export! 3.3. Putting it together kuva 1. The basics 1.1. What are ‘pixels’, and where are they stored? A Pix... ...Read more >>

2.Pokitto sound synthesizer

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jonne

Pokitto SynthTest This demo shows how to make “ground up” sounds by directly controlling the Pokitto oscillators. Attention!: Watch your ears! If you put headphones on and max volume, it can be very loud! https://os.mbed.com/teams/Pokitto-Community-Team/code/SynthTest/ https://os.mbed.com/teams/P... ...Read more >>

1.Programming Pokitto "offline" using EmBitz IDE

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jonne

Step 1: download and install EmBitz IDE EmBitz is an “offline IDE” you can use to program Pokitto on your computer. That means you can make Pokitto-compatible binaries without the need to go to the http://mbed.com mbed.com cloud tools. EmBitz is an open-source IDE that is free, fast and relativel... ...Read more >>

2.PokittoSim - programming using a Simulator

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jonne

...Mac coming soon) PC without needing the actual Pokitto itself. This is what it looks like: In the simulator buttons are arrow keys + Z,X,C (A,B,C) !! Tutorial video Developing Pokitto programs without device (in Pokitto simulator) Why use a simulator? Speed. Developing code just on a PC is much faster than... ...Read more >>

3.Simultaneous development in PokittoLib & PokittoSim

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jonne

Repository directory structure explained below: common_dev.jpg common_dev.jpg 619x506 60.7 KB Hello all I have begun merging the PokittoLib and PokittoSim codebases. https://github.com/pokitto/PokittoLib GitHub https://github.com/pokitto/PokittoLib pokitto/PokittoLib Library for making programs o... ...Read more >>

4.CLI building on Linux

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drummyfish

This is somewhat untidy how-to of my Linux CLI workflow, based on /u/fmanga @FManga ’s https://github.com/pokitto/PokittoLib/blob/master/Examples/Zboy/Makefile Makefile . It’s intended for GNU/Linux people who already know how to build programs using gcc and want to do it the same way with Pokitt... ...Read more >>

1.Level 1-1, hello world!

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adekto

...ing to go over this simple program, to familiarize you with the basic elements of a game program like the ones you will be building. Most programming tutorials start with such so-called ‘hello world’ programs, since them simply draw the words “Hello World!” on your screen. You will usually want to develop y... ...Read more >>

2.Level 1-2, variables

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adekto

...last basic type of variables is the pointer, which takes 32 bits of memory. Pointers store locations of data in memory; this will be covered in later tutorials. Okay, that’s all fine and dandy, but how do you use these? Well, let’s make an example: I’m going to move our text cursor around the screen, and si... ...Read more >>

3.Level 1-3, first game

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adekto

...is the first game? well technically its tennis for 2 but a more popular variation is called PONG #include "Pokitto.h" Pokitto::Core game; /* In this tutorial we are using fast screen mode. It means screen resolution is 110x88 playerA's buttons are UP and DOWN playerB's buttons are A and B */ //setting vari... ...Read more >>

4.Level 1-4, operators

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adekto

by request i am adding this one, this is basically explaining how the math works as you might have seen in the tutorials assignment is in reverse to what you might be used to x = 10; in this your assigning x the value of 10 you can do arithmetic with these / % i hope i... ...Read more >>

5.Level 1-5, functions

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NullMember

...any name you want. But It is good to choose name according to the job. Then inside the brackets we can declare parameters as much as we need. In this tutorial we need two parameters. Parameters looks like variables. Actually it’s variables. But it’s local to the function. The purpose of parameters is to all... ...Read more >>

Tutorials

Beginner tutorials

1."Hello World!" - making your first program

2.Basic drawBitmap example

3.Reading Pokitto buttons

4.Creating your own art - Piskel editor for Pokitto

Intermediate tutorials

2.Pokitto sound synthesizer

Advanced tutorials

1.Programming Pokitto "offline" using EmBitz IDE

2.PokittoSim - programming using a Simulator

3.Simultaneous development in PokittoLib & PokittoSim

4.CLI building on Linux

C++ Language Tutorials by Community

1.Level 1-1, hello world!

2.Level 1-2, variables

3.Level 1-3, first game

4.Level 1-4, operators

5.Level 1-5, functions