Set my-variable to "Hello!".
Sets my-variable to Hello!. You can then show this variable by:
Show my-variable.
Shows my-variable in a popup box - in this case, it'll show Hello!.
Ask "What should X be?" for x.
Shows a popup question box with "What should X be?". Whatever you type will then be put into the x variable.
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(I can type whatever I want in here!)
This is a comment - they don't do anything, except provide hints for other people who are reading your code.
A function is something that you can execute with certain parameters. They're a handy way to reuse your code without writing it out many times.
Define say hello with name:
Show "Hello, " + name + "! How are you doing?".
End.
The function above is called 'say hello', and it takes 'name' as a parameter. You can see that it uses the 'name' variable in the code itself. Write this to use your function:
<say hello with "Chris">.
This will show Hello, Chris! How are you doing?. If you'd like, you can have more than one variable by separating them with commas, like so:
Define multiply with x, y:
Set result to x * y.
Show "The result is " + result.
End.
<multiply with 5, 10>
This'll show: The result is 50.
Sometimes, you don't want your function to show something directly: you can instead have it return a variable, like this:
Define devide with x, y:
Set result to x / y.
Return result.
End.
Set tenDevidedByFive to <devide with 10, 5>.
Show tenDevidedByFive.
If you followed along, you should see that it'll show 2.
A conditional is a option that your program can take: if something is that, then do this thing.
Set numberOfApples to 5.
If numberOfApples is equal to 5, then do:
Show "That's a lot of apples.".
End.
You can use is, is not for checking if two variables are equal.
And < and >, for checking if a variable is less than or greater than another variable.
Finally, you can also use and, or, to only do something if two or more conditions are true.
Set numberOfApples to 5.
If numberOfApples < 7 and numberOfApples > 4, then do:
Show "You have between 4 and 7 apples. Perfect!".
End.
You can also use Or statements, like this:
If a is 5, then do:
(A is 5)
Show "A is 5".
Or if a is 4, then do:
(A is not 5, but it is 4)
Show "A is 4".
Or else do:
(A is not 5, and A is not 4)
Show "A is not 5 or 4".
End.
While (conditional) do:
<code>
End.
The While loop executes the code forever as long as the conditional still evaluates to True.
This is a simplified version of the common for loop.
Count until a reaches 5:
Show a.
End.
Output:
0 1 2 3 4
The Count loop also supports negative numbers.
Count until a reaches -5:
Show a.
End.
Output:
0 -1 -2 -3 -4
The simplicity means that it's also more limited than the standard For loop. It only supports the variable starting at 0; and incrementing or decrementing by 1 until it reaches the target. If you want to simulate the capabilities of a standard For loop in Tome, you'll have to use the While loop instead.
Set a to [5, 10, 15].
For every item in a do:
Show item.
End.
The For loop iterates over every item in a list in order.