Downloads and Teaching Resources

If you want to write and run your programs without visiting the Programming Basics website, you can download the Simple Code Editor. The download consists of a file called ide.jar. When you double-click this file, the code editor will start. Your computer needs to have Java installed to run the code editor.

This is a zip file of the text of the beginner lessons and corresponding exercise files. The lessons are stored in a plain html format that makes them easy to modify and print out. The exercise files contain the extra images and code needed to run them directly on your own computer without needing to connect to the Internet.

A sample program that demonstrates how a small game can be written in JavaScript. The program uses some features of JavaScript that are not described in the beginner lessons such as: arrays, creating simple objects, OR, for loops, windows, graphics, keyboard input, and comments. As an exercise, here are some possible modifications that you may want to make to the game: create a different layout of walls, make the game go faster, change the graphics for the snake, make it possible to have the snake go off the end of one side of the screen and then appear on the other side.

The Java source code used to create the Programming Basics code editor. The code includes a simple ant script for compiling and running the editor as a standalone program, but it can also be embedded as an applet.