Swahili

A new programming language with semantics borrowed from the Swahili language to help teach programming concepts to native Swahili-speaking students.

Get Started

Installation

Swahili is built on Node. To get started, you can install Swahili, or follow the instructions to run without installing.

npm install -g swahili-lang

To start the REPL, just run swahili in your terminal.

swahili

Try things out! Here's a good command to get you started:

> andika("Jambo Dunia! Hello, World!")

External files

You can pass in a file path to be executed when you run the swahili command in your terminal:

swahili ./examples/jambo.swh

To see more options for the swahili command run

swahili -h

Run without installing

If you'd like to run without installing, simply use:

npx swahili-lang [filename]

To enable syntax highlighting for your Swahili programs in VS Code (more coming soon!), get this VS Code extension.

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Documentation

Language Guide

1. Introduction
2. Grammar and types
3. Control flow and error handling
4. Loops and iterations
5. Functions
6. Expressions and operators
7. Numbers and dates

Packages

• HTTP
• Random (Yoyote)

References

• Grammar
• Built-in functions
• Constants

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Examples

• Jambo, Dunia! (Hello, World!)
• Vitanzi (Loops)
• Mraba (Squares)
• FizzBuzz
• Vyupa 99 (99 Bottles)
• Mfuatano wa Fibonacci (Fibonacci Sequence)
• Tarihi (To-do List)
• Mchezo wa Dadu (Dice Rolls)
• Watu API (People API)

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