With the language specification nearly finished, it’s time to put together a very basic prototype of what the actual interface for programming in Poki Nanpa is going to look like so that I can start writing the interpreter in an environment where it can be tested. Working from the mock-up I made for the first deliverable, I have created a web page that can take input from a text area, run it through a parser, and output something to a canvas. Here is what that looks like so far:

You might notice that the text on the left is not Poki Nanpa code. To begin with, I have just written an interpreter that takes colours and positions of pixels and outputs them on the canvas. From this template, I will write the actual interpreter.

The sources for this web page are in the “web interface” folder of the project repository.