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Re: Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone

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Post by yorwba »

victornomad wrote: post #99
hemanta212 wrote: post #20

Sadly, this is how things are for many of us students, I currently study bachelors in CS here in Nepal and for me and some of my friends stuck in our villages (lockdown isn't still over here yet), we have been doing C assignments using editors avalialble in the playstore. Seeing these apps have millions of downloads, we're definitely not alone and I have seen many indian and other south asian friends do the same. My…

wow! I'm glad that termux exist, it's such an amazing tool! I don't know if you might find it interesting but I made an open source coding tool and framework for Android that is pretty fun and fast to use. You can code using the phone or a computer using a remote editor throught Wifi (no internet required). It comes with lots of examples and remixing them is quite fun to get quick and nice results. It's called PHONK…

Based on the description "Connect your computer and Android to the same WIFI network" I'd assume that you need at least two devices, but from your comment I gather that's not the case? Maybe you should clarify that on the landing page.

Re: Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone

#102

Post by afavour »

scoopertrooper wrote: post #97
hemanta212 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for such kind and generous gesture. Sadly, with how things are with the courier and customs dep. here they can charge 30-40% of orignal price to receive electronic items Fortunately, I have managed to get few python freelance gigs here and there and in a few months, I may be able to afford one.

I'm weird, your comment got me interested in Nepalese custom duties. I had a read through and it looks like notebooks do not incur import duties in Nepal! > Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data on to data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included. -Portable automatic data processing machin…

What the law specifies is not always the lived reality.

Re: Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone

#103

Post by mchaver »

jiggawatts wrote: post #26

Story time! I grew up in eastern Europe in the communist era, in a country where entire factories were run using Commodore 64 computers that were smuggled in, bypassing export controls and sanctions. The programmer at one such factory was a friend of my father, and we'd go over to his place for dinner semi-regularly. He didn't have kids, and I was six, so I was bored to tears. No toys and nobody my age to play with!…

If you are open to sharing, I'd be curious to hear what you have done since university.

Re: Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone

#104

Post by deregulateMed »

wrboyce wrote: post #100
deregulateMed wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>iOS Apple doesn't advertise much outside the United States, and given Android is significantly more developer friendly, there isn't a reason for a student to learn on iOS.

I see your name every time Apple are mentioned, did they hurt you or something? If you don’t want to buy their gear that is fine but this crusade you’re on is boring.

Yep. I'm against unethical behavior. Seems like HN generally agrees.

I'm also against medical cartels too.

I don't like Samsung or Nintendo for the same reasons I don't like Apple.

Any specific questions?

Re: Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone

#105

Post by victornomad »

yorwba wrote: post #101
victornomad wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

wow! I'm glad that termux exist, it's such an amazing tool! I don't know if you might find it interesting but I made an open source coding tool and framework for Android that is pretty fun and fast to use. You can code using the phone or a computer using a remote editor throught Wifi (no internet required). It comes with lots of examples and remixing them is quite fun to get quick and nice results. It's called PHONK…

Based on the description "Connect your computer and Android to the same WIFI network" I'd assume that you need at least two devices, but from your comment I gather that's not the case? Maybe you should clarify that on the landing page.

Yes, it's possible just using the Android device. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try to improve the the landing page and make it a bit more clear :)

Re: Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone

#106

Post by z3t4 »

mongodude wrote: post #73
MontyCarloHall wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> they can charge 30-40% of orignal price to receive electronic items Ouch. Hanlon’s razor aside, it’s almost as if the government is intentionally preventing the economy from modernizing. Really sad that some bureaucrats couldn’t see the huge long term gains of a more technology-oriented economy, and instead could only focus on whatever marginal short term revenue these tariffs generated.

This is the problem in many emerging economies in SE Asia. Just because many people are struggling to arrange their daily meals, Governments get into socialist mode and taxes anything which does not classify as bare necessity. Sadly, it is a vicious loop and these economies are not modernizing enough at a rapid pace despite so much talent waiting for an opportunity.

If the tax money is spent on education, healthcare, and infrastructure such as communication/fiber and water, then it will only take one generation to go from: poor - have to work in order to eat, to poor - but have free time to learn coding without starving, then after 3 generations you might have gone to an information society without going through the industrial age. Unless other countries suck out all the bright minds.

Re: Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone

#107

Post by a45_hj89 »

jiggawatts wrote: post #26

Story time! I grew up in eastern Europe in the communist era, in a country where entire factories were run using Commodore 64 computers that were smuggled in, bypassing export controls and sanctions. The programmer at one such factory was a friend of my father, and we'd go over to his place for dinner semi-regularly. He didn't have kids, and I was six, so I was bored to tears. No toys and nobody my age to play with!…

You are absolutely dickless, aren't you.

Re: Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone

#109

Post by davidjytang »

scoopertrooper wrote: post #97
hemanta212 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for such kind and generous gesture. Sadly, with how things are with the courier and customs dep. here they can charge 30-40% of orignal price to receive electronic items Fortunately, I have managed to get few python freelance gigs here and there and in a few months, I may be able to afford one.

I'm weird, your comment got me interested in Nepalese custom duties. I had a read through and it looks like notebooks do not incur import duties in Nepal! > Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data on to data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included. -Portable automatic data processing machin…

My experience with China customs is that if custom officer feels like taxing you 15%/25%/45% on this particular day, they will find a way to tax you. Unless.

Re: Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone

#110

Post by pwdisswordfish8 »

victornomad wrote: post #99
hemanta212 wrote: post #20

Sadly, this is how things are for many of us students, I currently study bachelors in CS here in Nepal and for me and some of my friends stuck in our villages (lockdown isn't still over here yet), we have been doing C assignments using editors avalialble in the playstore. Seeing these apps have millions of downloads, we're definitely not alone and I have seen many indian and other south asian friends do the same. My…

wow! I'm glad that termux exist, it's such an amazing tool! I don't know if you might find it interesting but I made an open source coding tool and framework for Android that is pretty fun and fast to use. You can code using the phone or a computer using a remote editor throught Wifi (no internet required). It comes with lots of examples and remixing them is quite fun to get quick and nice results. It's called PHONK…

The "compile it your self" link in the README (https://github.com/victordiaz/PHONK/blob/master) is a 404. (also, it should be "yourself"), and the landing page site header is cut off on mobile, so the GitHub link doesn't show up.
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