Punter.js – single-file JavaScript game engine for teaching programming

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We host work experience students at Orca Scan. This year I mentored one myself.Schools teach programming theory, maybe some Python. Students rarely leave with something to show their friends. When I started coding on a ZX Spectrum, I typed in listings from INPUT magazine. Tweak a number, get more lives, you’re hooked. I wanted that same effect.So I pulled the JS engine we built for OrcaCam out into its own thing: punter.js. One file, ~2000 lines, plain ES5, no dependencies. Starting with Pong, a student can write a working game in an HTML file and have it live in 15 minutes.My goal is to create something simple schools can use to teach programming, but in a way that inspires.Would love your

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