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What Is Befunge?
A plain introduction to Befunge, the esoteric language where code lives on a two-dimensional grid and an instruction pointer moves in four directions.
The Funge Family
Befunge Basics
The core ideas of Befunge: playfield, stack and instructions.
Common Beginner Mistakes in Befunge
The errors new Befunge programmers hit most often, from wrong pointer direction and stack order to missing end markers, each with a simple fix.
The Befunge Instruction Set Explained
A tour of the single-character Befunge commands, grouped into movement, arithmetic, stack, decisions, memory and input and output, with short examples.
The Stack and the Playfield in Befunge
Befunge keeps values on a stack and code on a grid. Learn what each area does, how the g and p commands connect them, and where they can clash.
Tracing a Befunge Program by Hand
Learn a simple table method for following the pointer, direction and stack through a Befunge program, with a worked example you can check yourself.
Writing Hello World in Befunge
Build a Befunge Hello World program step by step, and see why text is pushed onto the stack in reverse before a small loop prints it back out.
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