Today, for the first time in many moons, I spent some time playing around with easy coding on my Raspberry Pi 400.
FYI: I am not a coder, I am not much of a tech guy ( although I have spent 5.5 years on the blockchain and in crypto, by now ) and I'm definitely more tech-oriented than the average Joe or Joan.
It's fair to say though that I used to be quite interested in coding, in my late high school ( and early University? ) years.
Back then, I tried my hands on Visual Basic and Turbo Pascal ( by borrowing books from the library and buying a book or two on game making ). I soon found out that programming was too complicated for me, too over my head. Or, perhaps, I was too impatient. What I managed to create could hardly be called 'games' nor programms. So I started focusing on other things, once again.
Life took over.
It's now almost 25 years later and I'm feeling an urge to get into coding again but not necessarily to make ( computer ) games.
Today I felt an itch returning, an urge to perhaps find a way to make some sort of website/ space, where I can share my dino stories, outside of my Hive blog and in a different shape or form.
I connected my raspberry Pi 400 to an external monitor ( in the place that I'm house sitting ) and found a little app called 'Tell Your Story', built with a programm/ HTML editor called Trinket.
By making some changes in an existing template, I quickly managed to tell my own story. And, in the process, I learnt some more HTML.
I love how this little programm turns my story into some kind of comic, as I have thought of going for some sort of graphic novel, several times before. Let's say that I keep feeling that just making books, the ordinary way, isn't creative enough for me.
It was fun to play around with this today and I feel that this is only the beginning of a new way of telling my stories.
TO BE CONVINUED..