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I remember stuff like that and will never use this company's tools, which is a shame because I was a fan prior to that.
It's perfect for pre bed time when I'm more interested in learning software than implementing features.
The experience isn't perfect because vs code was never meant to be a mobile editor but for writing few locs and trying stuff is okay.
I'm bullish on this because mobile (and web) development is ridiculously overcomplicated to a beginner. I think it's a common misconception that coding/logic is difficult. I find the development setup and deployment to be much more complicated. As evidence, take a look at the impressive workarounds that citizen developers use to make things work in an easy environment like Excel. A keyboard and mouse probably solve m…
This is the founder who turned into a psycho tyrant (I forget his exact words, but something to the effect of, "we're not the same small company, I have money and lawyers now") on an ex-employee for an innocent side project, threatened to sue him, etc, until it went viral and then backpedaled and offered some non-apology. I remember stuff like that and will never use this company's tools, which is a shame because I w…
Did anyone else learn to code on a TI-83+? Although I doubt I'd use this in a professional setting, making coding accessible to more people sounds great to me.
But a lot of time in chemistry and on the school bus rides was spent programming on my calculators.
It had some clunky bits and had to use its own language, but I've been surprised some of the ideas of the system hasn't made its way into normal IDEs. The key advantage is that you never had to worry about syntax. You couldn't forget a semicolon, because you were never typing out a line, just picking and choosing from options, while still piecing together a line of code as you would if you were typing it out manually. It was a higher level than normal coding, but well below something like Blockly. I think for beginners - who really struggle with syntax - it was brilliant, and even for more advanced developers it would be sort of handy not having to do find/replace or copy/paste and missing that last bracket or whatever.
Conceptually, imagine that instead of writing out a line of code as a text sentence, you were assembling the program's syntax tree by choosing from a pile of premade items you've created, and then being able to grab whole branches at a time and manipulate them. It was an interesting experiment.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/touchdevelo...
I'm bullish on this because mobile (and web) development is ridiculously overcomplicated to a beginner. I think it's a common misconception that coding/logic is difficult. I find the development setup and deployment to be much more complicated. As evidence, take a look at the impressive workarounds that citizen developers use to make things work in an easy environment like Excel. A keyboard and mouse probably solve m…
Right now, what's being sold is "more people can go into the career of programming" as opposed to "no really, it's possible to bring so-called 'programming' to everyone.'"
Put differently, it wasn't that Hypercard didn't catch on, it's that things like Hypercard get "killed."
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This may be an example of skating to where the puck is at. Consider that the new iPad has the same power as a desktop and can be used with a desktop monitor. (This is the $450 version.) You can also connect an iPhone to a display to an HDMI monitor, but they haven't done the work to have a desktop mode yet. Android desktop mode but they haven't been . If iphone cracks it, android will have to catch up. Phones have th…
What do you call a phone with a big external keyboard and display? A developer machine like that is already $150, called a Chromebook or a Raspberry Pi.
This is the founder who turned into a psycho tyrant (I forget his exact words, but something to the effect of, "we're not the same small company, I have money and lawyers now") on an ex-employee for an innocent side project, threatened to sue him, etc, until it went viral and then backpedaled and offered some non-apology. I remember stuff like that and will never use this company's tools, which is a shame because I w…
it was horrible seeing students not being able to do hands-on activities during the recent covid years. let alone other problems like dysfunctional / laggy / buggy low-end mobiles, slow internet connection, oh dear.