User:GarveyPatrickD/Plain English/Plain English/Raw Sources

Plain English Sources

These are the links I've found that provided the information to write a page about the Plain English IDE and Compiler.

Creators

• Gerry Rzeppa (Father)

Quora Profile LinkedIn Profile Twitter Profile GitHub Profile

• Dan Rzeppa (Son)

Contributors

• Elender Góis Gallas (Plain Portuguese Creator)

Quora Profile LinkedIn Profile Twitter Profile GitHub Profile

• Pablo Cayuela (Plain Spanish Creator)

LinkedIn Profile

Copyright Owner

• The Osmosian Order
  • The Osmosian Order of Plain English Programmers Brochure
    • The Osmosian Manifesto
  • Wordpress Blog
    In chronological order:
    • 2018
      • 05
        • 01 A Solution to the Fatal Flaw in Relational Database Systems
        • 02 Fractal Forests
        • 02 Plain English Programming — Is a Picture Worth 1000 Words?
        • 03 Robotics
        • 03 A WYSIWYG Document Editor
        • 04 Musings on the “A” in “AI”
        • 04 Robotics
        • 05 Plain English Programming — Smoothing Polygons
        • 05 Kobayashi Maru Primes
        • 06 Plain English Programming — Nested IFs
        • 06 Plain English Programming — The Malevolent Mathemagician
        • 07 Parsing with Riders
        • 07 Plain English Programming — Jackson Pollock’s Alphabet Soup
        • 08 Random Numbers
        • 08 Sierpinski & Koch
        • 09 The Travelling Salesman
        • 09 A Jigsaw Puzzle
        • 10 Anagrams
        • 11 The Amazing MultiMaze
        • 12 Painting Like Monet
        • 13 Bresenham’s Circle Drawing Algorithm
        • 14 Hiding in Plain Sight
        • 14 Sudoku Solver
        • 15 Teaching Kids to Program
        • 16 Plain English Programming

IDE including Compiler

Creator supplied

• cal-3040 2006/08/14
  • EBNF
  • instructions
• cal-4700 2017/01/27

GitHub

• /GerryRzeppa/osmosian cal-3040
• /Folds/osmosian cal-3040 (Unauthorized)
• /elenderg/Portugues-Puro cal-4700 Translated to Portuguese

Forums

AnandTech

• Natural Language Programming: Good Idea? Yes Maybe No
• Conversational Storytelling with JavaScript
• Natural Language Programming -- English and/or Español
• Learning programming
• Official Free Tools Thread | Plain English contribution
• Plain English Programming (2013)
• Do You Approve the Plain English?

Arduino

• Plain English Programming

comp.compilers

• Writing A Plain English Compiler
• Re: A Plain English Compiler

GeeksForGeeks

• The Malevolent Mathemagician | Natural Language Programming
• Creating WYSIWYG Document Editor | Natural Language Programming
• A Kobayashi Maru Approach to Finding Primes
• Sorting | Natural Language Programming
• Natural Language Programming — Teaching Kids
• Natural Language Programming

Interactive Fiction Community Forum

• Writer wanted for a “Conversational Storytelling” project
• Inform system developers, do you approve the Plain English Programming?

Parallax Forums

• Plain English Programming

PC Control Limited

• Automated Maze solver using a servo hawk
  • photo 09 - definitions
  • photo 10 - low-level helper routines
  • photo 11 - mid-level helper routines
  • photo 12 - high-level helper routines
  • photo 13 - main routine
  • photo 14 - terminal output

Quora

• Jul 06, 2021 - What can a beginner programmer use as a programming IDE? I tried using Visual Studio Express but it was too hard to use and understand. Is there anything else I can use?
  • "To get started with Plain English, see here (it’s fast, friendly, and free):"
  • Reference to another Gerry Rzeppa Quora article: Jun 27, 2021 - Is there a right way to learn to code?
• Jul 06, 2021 - How often when puzzling out a solution to a problem, do you think or say aloud, “Are we asking the right question/questions?”
  • "Almost every time."
  • Reference to another Gerry Rzeppa Quora article: May 11, 2021 What IDE has impressed you with its ease of use, and how productive were you with it?
• Jul 06, 2021 - What are the best examples of poetry written in programming languages?
  • A poem written in Plain English that, when run, makes the picture the poem describes.
• Jul 05, 2021 - What is the character limit for one line of code you go by?
  • "... if handwritten code fits on the screen, it’s okay by me."
• Jul 05, 2021 - How is a one-dimensional character array and a string similar?
  • Strings
  • Substrings
  • String Riders
• Jun 27, 2021 - Is there a right way to learn to code?
  • A offering of the Plain English IDE and personal tutoring.
• Jun 10, 2021 - Is there any way to write genuine self-modifying code in Windows?
  • Memory Map
  • Memory Pointers
• Jun 10, 2021 - How can I write a Python program where a bunch of students will be assigned thesis themes using the FIFO method?
  • Use of path variable.
  • Iterative development.
  • Relation of item in a list and the name of the list.
  • Screen space management.
  • Use of "backwards".
• Jun 09, 2021 - How do computers execute if statements to the core machine code and opcodes?
  • List command and explanation of display produced
  • Memory Map
  • Uses Online x86 and x64 Intel Instruction Assembler to disassemble code in the List output.
  • Offers free “How to Write a Plain English Compiler in Plain English” course via email.
• Jun 08, 2021 - How can I draw the flag of a country in C#? (beginner)
  • Make a box
  • Center the box
  • Draw and fill the box
  • Stroke
• Jun 07, 2021 - Is it wise to ask query like why curly braces are preferred in C instead of opening and closing bracket when writing functions, or we just need to memorize that as a random rule? Is there any book which deals with such miscellaneous things about C?
  • “Arbitrary and unnecessary rule”
• Jun 06, 2021 - How would I go about creating dots and boxes in Java?
• Jun 06, 2021 - How can I write a menu-driven program to perform the following operations on the stack using array- a (i) Push (ii) Pop (iii) Peek?
• Jun 06, 2021 - How do I make a countdown and when it finishes, it shows a text in coding? I want to add a picture as a border or what else to countdown.
• Jun 06, 2021 - What is recursion? Can you explain the main principles of recursions? Can you do the code/algorithm of the Fibonacci series using recursion?
• Jun 06, 2021 - What is recursion? How do you find the intersection point between a line and a rectangle (algorithm, geometry, line, intersection, development)?
• Jun 06, 2021 - How do you handle algorithms to create polygons (no Thiesen/Voronoi) (Python, Shapely, Voronoi, development)?
• Jun 04, 2021 - I want to get into programming. What languages should I learn first?
• Jun 04, 2021 - How do I make a programme using codes?
• Jun 04, 2021 - Why is "Hello World" the default line in programming languages?
• Jun 04, 2021 - Why can't I find any real photo of a compiler? Is it too small?
• Jun 03, 2021 - Why must the starting value of a control variable be less than the ending value in a for loop expression?
• Jun 03, 2021 - What is the purpose of "initialization of counter variable" in a loop?
• Jun 03, 2021 - What is the nature of a variable with real life examples?
• Jun 03, 2021 - Why is UML a significant area of study?
• May 29, 2021 Is it easier to write an interpreter than a compiler? Why?
  • "Yes. An interpreter can be written with less knowledge of the hardware and operating system."
  • Reference to another Gerry Rzeppa Quora article: May 18, 2021 How do I make programming language?
• May 18, 2021 How do I make programming language?
  • Reference to another Gerry Rzeppa Quora article: Dec 22, 2020 How do you start writing your interpreter from scratch?
  • Reference to another Gerry Rzeppa Quora article: Aug 30, 2020 What is a compiler and the stages of a compiler?
• May 11, 2021 What IDE has impressed you with its ease of use, and how productive were you with it?
• Apr 28, 2021 - I need some good project related to data structure. I am a 2rd year computer science student. What is your suggestion?
  • Data types
    • Fundamental
      • byte
      • record
    • Pointers
      • Generic
      • Typed
    • Strings
    • Things
      • Stacks
      • Queues
      • Hashed Indices
  • Memory Map
  • WYSIWYG document editor
• Apr 12, 2021 - What is the relationship between a compiler, algorithm, and data structure?
  • "A compiler uses data structures and algorithms to translate high-level source code into low-level executable machine code."
  • Discussion of the Plain English compiler
• Mar 29, 2021 - What is the most interesting Python algorithm in less than ten lines of code?
  • Lindenmayer interpreter
• Mar 27, 2021 - What is the best way to present an algorithm?
  • Three-step process
• Mar 24, 2021 - Why is it hard to understand linked lists in programming?
  • Discuss Plain English linked list.
• Dec 22, 2020 How do you start writing your interpreter from scratch?
  • “primitive” BASIC editor/interpreter
• Oct 03, 2020 - In procedural programming, how do you plan your code without UML?
  • Osmosian maxim: “If it’s hard, it’s wrong.”
  • Pair Programming
  • "During the winter of 2005-2006, we wrote (and documented) 25,000 lines of Plain English code in just six months ..."
  • '“Just tell us what you need, sonny, and we’ll show you how to live without it.”'
• Aug 30, 2020 What is a compiler and the stages of a compiler?
  • Structure of the Plain English compiler.
• Jul 09, 2020 - Who can print this string "Hello world" more smartly and clearly?
  • Plain English program to print in a circle.
  • Español Llano (Plain Spanish) program to print in a circle.
• Jun 08, 2020 - Why do some programmers write their own compilers?
  • 'My elder son and I wrote our own Plain English compiler and IDE, in Plain English, originally, for three reasons. We wanted to know:'
    • '1. Is it easier to program when you don’t have to translate your natural-language thoughts into an alternate syntax?'
    • '2. Can natural languages be parsed in a relatively “sloppy” manner (as humans apparently parse them) and still provide a stable enough environment for productive programming?'
    • '3. Can low-level programs (like compilers) be conveniently and efficiently written in high level languages (like English)?
  • 'Turns out the answers to all of three questions is, “Yes!”'

Successor Project

• The Hybrid Programming Language - Plain English with snippets of formulas and graphics where needed