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title: "Coding app SmileBASIC coming"
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description: "Famitsu has revealed that popular coding application Puchikon SmileBASIC is coming to the Nintendo Switch console."
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2018-07-30 12:50:09"
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Coding app SmileBASIC coming | Nintendo Switch News | NintendoReporters

 [![Coding app SmileBASIC coming](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/coding-app-smilebasic-coming.jpg "Coding app SmileBASIC coming")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/coding-app-smilebasic-coming.jpg)**Famitsu** has revealed that popular coding application Puchikon SmileBASIC is coming to the Nintendo Switch console.

### [](#about-smilebasic)About SmileBASIC

SmileBASIC is a portable version of a programming language known as BASIC.

BASIC is a programming language designed to help beginners learn to program. As soon as you start SmileBASIC, you can begin programming! When you’re finished, you can play the game you made!
Enjoy intuitive, trouble-free programming.

The app is known as Petit Computer here in the west and was available on both the Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS. The application allows programmers to create games using coding in the BASIC programming language.

More details have yet to be announced.

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