CalcIt

The CalcIt application was designed to be a small, versatile and freeware programming tool to be used by power computer users and programmers to process quickly and conveniently numeric, alphanumeric data and text files, to handle programmatically directories and their files and compose small utilities to run immediately without delays and prerequisites.   It is also a calculator and more than that a tool to create custom calculators that can run inside CalcIt's environment or independently. It provides a graphical environment of work where the user can write and execute code in a special simple language and display results in the same place.   The codes written are stored in a hierarchical list that serves as a kind of "code palette" where the user at any time can pick one of his/her codes and execute it immediately. So CalcIt is "programmability at your fingertips".

CalcIt incorporates its own programming language. It is designed to be simple, very easy to learn based mostly on very common, these days, programming concepts. With CalcIt language you have to code fast, writing the smallest possible code with the less possible debugging.   You can process numeric or alphanumeric data and additionally you can explore or create binary files like we do with HEX editors but now having in our side powerful programmability. Automation/COM object can be accessed as well.

CalcIt offers a user interface where you can conveniently write and test code and do calculations. You write pieces of code in a special, simple and easy to learn language to solve common every day problems in the field of numeric or text processing.

CalcIt purpose is to give you all the convenience and development speed to solve these problems in a programmatic way than doing the same job by hand in a tedious and boring process.

Imagine that you do a job by hand at some point and the same or similar problem reappears. Then what you do? Doing the same tedious and boring job again and again, spending your time and patience?

With CalcIt you solve one problem once in a programmatic way, using your intelligence, and afterwards you leave your computer to carry it out. Then you store your code in CalcIt, in a hierarchical list, the palette of your previous solutions and, when the problem reappears you pick the code, do some modifications if needed and execute it to finish your work quickly and accurate at least as accurate it was in the past. This way, gradually you create a base of evolving, optimized, improved solutions of all encountered problems and benefit from it as always do from the product of a systematic, progressive work.

Without CalcIt you have to use expensive, complex and demanding tools that need a lot of preparation to make your code run correctly and have some useful effect. So the time and effort to setup and debug a small application becomes too big in the specific moment and so looks easier to take shelter in the "security" and "reliability" of the "by hand" solutions. And when you give a programmatic solution in some cases, soon it is lost and it is forgotten somewhere in your hard disk because you have no way to organize and maintain these solutions in one place and with one tool.

CalcIt user interface promotes the "interactive programming". Every small piece of code you write can be executed and find a convenient place to display its results with no delays or prerequisites. So able to execute and test every small part of your code in a progressive step by step programming you are sure that the previous foundation of your code works well before you go to the next step. So you have a feeling of confidence because your work is immediately rewarding and proceeds well. This has the effect to give you more motive to continue work effectively and with enjoyment, applying your intelligence, qualities not present at "by hand" solutions. Subsequently the promotion of "Interactive programming" makes CalcIt Debugger to be used rarely.

So CalcIt is a tool specifically designed to create Utilities, programmatic solutions to specific needs that appear here and there in our computerized work environment, and solve them NOW and only one time, with enjoyment, using our intelligence and so avoiding any tedious and boring "by hand" job. When the same or similar problem reappears then we can find the solution gave before, do some modifications if needed and execute the code.