main begin
        write("Enter the angle you want to find the sine of (deg): ")
        number DegAngle = getNumber()

        number Angle = DegAngle*#toRad,
               Sine = 0,
               Sign = 1 

        loop 15 as i begin
                Sine += Sign*(Angle^(i*2-1)/(i*2-1)!) 
                Sign *= -1 
        end
                
        Sine = round(Sine,8)
        writeLn("The sine of ".DegAngle." degrees is ".Sine) 
end
    

Hey! I just finished a stable release of my several year long project BOLT. This is a programming language that is meant for beginners, but IT IS FULLY FUNCTIONAL, comparable to C in terms of what it can do. It was made to be simple, as to learn programming concepts, without getting caught up in syntax.

I am posting this here because you guys have helped me alot while working on the assembly code that BOLT spits out for fasm. This would not have been possible without you.

I just wanted to know if you would check it out, look at the assembly that it spits out, and tell me what you think. It has a few video tutorials to make learning really simple for people that already know how to program.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/boltprogramming/files/BOLT%20v3.7z/download

Be honest and tell me what you think. If you find bugs, just let me know. Being 17 and trying to get good grades in collage does not leave me alot of time to beta test. So, just let me know if you find problems

(I threw a special shout out to you guys in the read me)

void write(text t) // Writes text to the screen

void writeLn(text t) // Writes text to the console, and adds a newline

text getChar() // Gets a single character from the user

text getText() // Gets text from the user

number getNumber() // Gets a number from the user

number getStroke() // Returns the ASCII value of the key pressed

number random(number a, number b) // Returns a random number from a to b

void setCaretPosition(number X, number Y) // Sets the caret position

void clearScreen()// Clears the screen of all text

number max(number a, number b)// Returns the max of the two numbers

number min(number a, number b)// Returns the min of the two numbers

number round(number x, number digits) // Rounds x to the "digits" digit

text asciiToText(number x)// Converts x to the ASCII representation string

    

You just made my day. If you have any criticisms, or ideas to make it better, more readable, or easier to learn. Please let me know

And if you dont mind, tell me about the tutorial videos, what do you think about them, how can i make them better?

It is in areas like that where BOLT falls short.

I didn't start messing with DLLs until several years after I started programming. And it is because of this that i did not include support for creating DLLs, because the beginning programmer would have no need for making them.

It turns out, there is another problem with making DLLs in BOLT.

First you need to understand 2 things
* BOLT automatically includes the ENTIRE standard library at compile time
* It will remove all of the functions that wont be called from the ASM file.

This does not work with a DLL, because you don't know what functions will be used at compile time. This means that (for DLLs at least) i could not cut all of the unused functions out of the program, because they could all be used.

And because the entire standard library is included, all of the DLLs would (potentially) be very large, only to use a few select functions.




If you believe that DLL support is a feature that will be helpful to people, then i will find a way to make them work. But in my opinion, the people that have need for creating a DLL, would be advanced enough to no longer need/use BOLT, so they could just use the next language.

This is exactly what BOLT was made for. It was made to be simple, yet resemble better languages. This way, they could learn to program, and when they want to move on to something more powerful, like C++, they will find that it is pretty similar to the programming language they already know, and the transition will be much smoother.

But of course, if you have any other tutorial ideas, or ideas to improve the existing ones will always be welcome. And im sorry i was not able to be of more help with the DLL thing

(BTW. Im not a "great people" im just a 17 year old kid that likes to program, but i appreciate the compliment )

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