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lizby
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Posted: 11:03pm 22 Jul 2026

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"The Book". I haven't read much, but in the Cheat Sheet,
P. 232:"ls() ls("/sd/*.py") list (wildcards fine) cls() clear screen"

it appears to me that cls() should be on a new line

Claude read the whole thing:

Quote │ # │ Page │ Type │ Issue │
├─────┼──────────────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 1 │ 232 │ Layout │ cls() in the shell cheat-sheet renders as a third column on the ls() row instead of its │
│ │ (Appendix A) │ │ own row. (Your catch — confirmed a typesetting bug; ls and cls are unrelated.) │
├─────┼──────────────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 2 │ 87–88 (ch │ Stale │ Heading "The four screens" (and its TOC entry) but the text says "six deals" and the table │
│ │ 15) │ content │ lists six modes. Fix to "six." Corroborated by Appendix D, which correctly lists all six. │
├─────┼──────────────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 3 │ 122 (ch 20) │ Typo │ "Quare" should be "Square" in the sound() waveform list. │
└─────┴──────────────┴───────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Claude summarized:

Quote The technical density is high and it's all correct: every arithmetic example and digit count; MicroPython-specific error strings (isn't defined, invalid syntax for integer with base 10); all six screen-mode specs and clock options; the tone() signature against the actual firmware; note frequencies and the Mario coin; the Pong/Breakout/Asteroids physics (rotation, squared-distance collision, brick which-face); the servo pulse math and I2C addresses; framebuffer byte sizes (300/150/75 KB); the sample gettime() weekday (2026-07-16 is a Thursday); the 2000 epoch; and the full reserved-pin map in Appendix D.

Note: Claude did not test against hardware except as necessary to check my bare board with hdmi screen, SD card, RTC battery, and speakers plugged in.

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Volhout
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Posted: 07:39pm 23 Jul 2026

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Hi Peter,

Been reading in the book, and I am impressed. In birdview it looks very much like MMBasic, with a different language front.

One remark: in the manual you present examples (first) and a commant summary(table) later. But the table uses the example definition.... that could confuse. I.e. page 22 , the rable mentions tm.set, but should mention TileMap().set.

Volhout

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