Another Blog Post

I need another blog post so I've decided to write about an application I've got on a USB drive. When I was back at Kealing there were some applications that people would pass to each other between flash drives. The first application I'd like to talk about is falling sand. From a teacher's point of view, falling sand is a menace. IT's easy to transfer between students, the window is small and easily concealable, and the application is a big time waster. However, I believe that falling sand is one of the best things for computer science. In fact, falling sand got me interested in programming. At one point in 6th grade I got a copy of falling sand with the source file. It turns out that kealing had an active community of students that would reprogram falling sand with their own elements. We would make tons of crazy elements other than the standard fire and oil. We programmed in electricity, fireworks, sparks, mudbombs. It was seriously fun and introduced me to the concept of programming. After that, I wanted to know more so I began to explore other programming languages.

As it turns out, the code for falling sand is similar to html. I remember using tags to create new elements. Although I no longer have the source code to edit, I still have a custom version of falling sand at home.