The Hello World Challenge

[bobbyjones]

Hello guys and gals, I would like to issue a Hello World Challenge. This community is made up of noobs and pros and I think a Hello World Challenge would be a wonderful way to show off our creativity rather than just skills.

What is a Hello World Challenge you may ask?

A Hello World Challenge is like a game jam but with out the game part. The point of this is to be an exercise for the noobs and a show-off project for the experienced. Basically you make an hello world example from scratch with no pictures other than generated in the example. Other than that you can run wild with this exercise.

One question for yall though.

Should I make this jam more official with an actual deadline and itch.io jam thing (Trust me thing is the proper term lol) or I was thinking maybe just make this a thread where everyone post a hello world project.
Which do yall prefer?

[micha]

"Just making a thread" worked very well in the "Code doodle"-thread. If you go ahead and post a first hello-world example, this might encourage people to follow and submit their idea.

[josefnpat]

I present my submission:

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fonts = {}
for i = 6,64 do
  table.insert(fonts,love.graphics.newFont(i))
end
function love.draw()
  for i = 1,200 do
    love.graphics.setFont(fonts[math.random(1,#fonts)])
    love.graphics.setColor(
      math.random(0,255),
      math.random(0,255),
      math.random(0,255))
    love.graphics.print("WHAT",
      math.random(0,love.graphics.getWidth()),
      math.random(0,love.graphics.getHeight()),
      math.random()*math.pi*2)
  end
end

edit: what? I entirely don't understand this thread.