This morning Simon attempted to make a more difficult translation in the Codea app of an example from Daniel Shiffman’s book The Nature of Code (Java) into Lua. It concerned the Gravitational Attraction example from Chapter 2 of the book, Forces. Simon is happy with Codea because “It’s really readable!”, “You don’t need semicolons and parenthesis!” and all logic operators are actually typed in words (“and”, “or”, “not”).
Unfortunately, the function Simon introduced as substitute for mouse pressed release on the touch screen didn’t seem to work:
Simon did successfully translate the simple harmonic motion example from Chapter 3, Oscillation: “I use trigonometry!”
For this example, he had to look up a complex formula for mapping a range to another range on the internet b1 + (s – a1)*(b2 – b1)/(a2-a1) “because map function doesn’t exist in Codea, so I wrote that function”.
Swapping the axes:
Geeks out of the box 