Write and Run Your First Standard Language Program

The best way to get comfortable with Standard is to write and run real code right away. This guide walks you through your first Standard program — the classic “Hello World” — and then builds on it with user input and a loop so you can see more of the language in action.

Hello World

Start with the simplest possible Standard program:

print "Hello World!"

Save this as a .std file. Then, inside Standard, run it with:

run "/path/to/file.std"

You should see Hello World! printed to the console. Congratulations — you’ve written and executed your first Standard program.

Taking Input and Looping

Now let’s make things interactive. The program below asks the user to pick a number, then increments and prints that number five times using a for loop:

#Create variable 'number' and set to 0
number 0
#Set input to variable
in number "Pick a number:"
#Loop five times
for: 5 {
    #Increment and print out
    print number++
}

Declare the variable

number 0 creates a variable called number and initializes it to 0, establishing it as an integer type.

Collect user input

in number "Pick a number:" displays a prompt and stores whatever the user enters into number.

Loop and increment

for: 5 { ... } runs the block exactly five times. Inside, number++ increments the value before print outputs it to the console.

Comments in Standard start with #. Use them liberally to document what each section of your code does — especially when you’re learning the language.

What’s Next

Now that you’ve run your first program, explore the rest of the Standard language:

Variables & Types

Learn how to declare variables and work with Standard’s built-in types.

Operators

Perform arithmetic and string operations in your programs.

Conditions

Control program flow with if, else, and boolean logic.

Loops

Repeat code efficiently with for and while loops.

​Hello World

​Taking Input and Looping

​What’s Next

Variables & Types

Operators

Conditions

Loops

Hello World

Taking Input and Looping

What’s Next