## Writing programs with Ground (WORK IN PROGRESS GUIDE) Ground is a very easy language to learn. In this guide, you will learn how to write a simple calculator in Ground, as well as best practices (which there aren't many of, since Ground is so simple). Note: This assumes you've read and understand the syntax.md document in this folder. ### Let's start! Open a new file with the `.grnd` extension. Should look something like this: ``` ``` (Real empty in that file.) Let's add some code! Create a label for the start, since we'll loop back once we've calculated, and ask for the user's input: ``` @start stdout "Calculation: " stdin &calc ``` At the calc variable, we have whatever the user typed in. This should look something like `9+10`, `1 / 3` or who knows what else. But first we should organise this data. Let's create a loop to iterate through this input, and a counter to keep moving forward: