Not A Hacker

Noodle runs in a terminal. Unlike other software terminals only display text characters in a perfect grid. This can seam intimidating at first, like it’s only meant for hacker robot people. I promise using text-based programs in the terminal isn’t any harder than reading this webpage.

Noodle was made with this kind of interface for speedy development. A bare-bones method of interaction forces optimiziation at a functional level rather than messing with buttons, layouts, styles, etc. Maybe one day there’ll be a prettier app based on the core library.

So noodle itself is not hard. There are advanced manipulations that might twist your brain a little. But we’re not starting with those. Using basic commands is easy.

In noodle you enter commands with arguments and the program will display the output as if replying conversationally: input, output, input, output, input, output… This is refered to as a repl-style program. REPL means Read Evaluate Print Loop.

If that’s all new to you there’s a touch more jargon to pick up. You don’t need to know much. Only how to navigate to a directory in a terminal. In most terminals, you can do this with the cd command which very reasonably stands for “change directory”.

I suggest a quick web-search on how to use cd in your operating system. Then come back to learn more about noodle, follow the installation guide, or get started with your first knowledge base.

Good Luck! 🤠