Not A Hacker

Noodle runs in a terminal. They 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 quick.

The C.L.I. in noodle_cli stands for Command Line Interface. You enter commands with arguments and the program will display the output as if replying conversationally: input, output, input, output, input, output… This sometimes 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 the enviornment called “bash” 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 that. Then come back to learn more about noodle, follow the installation guide, or get started with your first knowledge base.

Good Luck! 🤠