glowscript in A Sentence

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    This simplifies moving programs between Glowscript VPython and VPython 7.

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    What's new: VPython in Glowscript, plus the history of VPython.

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    All Glowscript languages(VPython, RapydScrpt, JavaScript) use"wait" or"_" as a special signal for the compilation process.

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    There is also technical documentation about the Glowscript environment, including how to use JavaScript or RapydScript for your programs.

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    In 2011 David Scherer and Bruce Sherwood initiated the development of Glowscript, a similar programming environment but which runs in a browser.

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    In Glowscript VPython it is not possible to import arbitrary Python modules such as numpy, and any program that uses numpy will have to be modifed.

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    Glowscript by default processes VPython programs as though they had the following statements at the start of the program(which you don't need to include; they will be ignored):.

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    Io it is easy to add both editing and execution of Glowscript VPython to your own web pages, and Allain in his physics blog for Wired magazine has shown examples of this.

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    However, loops are fast in the JavaScript language to which Glowscript programs compile, so if you are using numpy solely for the speed of array manipulation, you may be able to replace a numpy calculation easily and efficiently with a loop.

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