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

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Post by Leparamour »

echoradio wrote: post #81
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…

Out of curiosity, is something like a Raspberry Pi Zero an option in terms of availability and having the equipment lying around to make it work (i.e. SD card, usb plug, etc.)? You should consider reaching out to the Raspberry Pi Foundation and explaining the situation. It is a registered charity and may have a program for distributing kits (and covering the associated costs) to areas or individuals who do not have e…

It's probably a step-up from just using a phone or phablet but with a Raspi you'd still need (compatible) monitors. No idea what the availability and markup is for these though reliable electricity might be another issue for remote regions.

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

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Post by andi999 »

z3t4 wrote: post #106
mongodude wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Or you do it like Singapore a bit faster.

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

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Post by TimTheTinker »

zepto wrote: post #74
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…

You say ‘sadly’, but that is vastly better than the equipment I had when I learned these skills in 80’s and 90s.

Taking your comment in the best possible light, I see this as a general indicator that for would-be-developers, things are often so much better than they were, despite the fact that many OSes are locked down.

Services like Azure and GitHub make it easy to get started, and combined with great documentation like MDN and Q&A on StackOverflow, so much more information and opportunity is available.

I remember struggling to learn QBASIC as a kid in the '90s without any resources (I didn't have internet). My programs were 20 times the length they could have been if only I'd been able to learn a few basic data structures.

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

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Post by rahulbshrestha »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #37

Is it time to revive the OLPC program? That one started the low-cost "netbook" trend, after that the smartphones and tablets got to the forefront. How much would a ruggedized laptop cost to make now? I know there's some RPI kits out there but they seem pretty pricey for what you get; I suspect the biggest expense is the screen, so that's an area that could be improved on. Surely there's older screen tech that can be…

I worked for a NGO that distributed OLPC laptops to rural schools in Nepal. Those laptops are super slow + its interface is hard to use. People in villages use smartphones that are 100X faster. Later, we switched to Raspberry pi(s) connected to peripheral devices. If you want to help out or learn more, check out: https://www.olenepal.org/.

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

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Post by Leparamour »

slim wrote: post #21
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…

Install termux. Learn vim

Behold the disciples of vim and Emacs at it again to lead another untainted soul astray to please their dark lords. Apage satanas!

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

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Post by Leparamour »

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…

This is all very interesting. Good luck with your studies!

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

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Post by grogenaut »

bolbol66 wrote: post #58
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!…

Great story, but you've never dreamt in C++.

im betting he meant it. ill ofyen have fever dreams whem too much caffiene or whatever and ill be trying to do for loops and what not in various languages. ive had people talk to me in code in dreams. in my dreams things are usualy sent essentially telepathically as ideas anyway so language is more about concepts amd structure.

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

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Post by fiftyfifty »

This is why I think it sucks when device manufacturers like Apple and to a lesser extent Google (Google Play has been more open to allowing development related apps in their store) restrict the kinds of apps that can be downloaded from their store. Smart phones are every bit a generic computing device as a PC, and for many people world wide it's the only one they have access too. For companies like Apple to say nope, you can take selfies with this thing, but you are absolutely not allowed to upload an IDE or code editor to our app store is really taking away opportunities like the one in this story.

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

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Post by grogenaut »

atum47 wrote: post #85

Being a poor student in Brasil, I went through my first two years of college using a R$ 400,00 (around 80 dollars) Dell notebook. Several of my projects hosted on GitHub were written using this machine. There's a super market chain here (Carrefour) that sells eletronics. They usually would hold a sales when something is wrong (a product is about to expire or an electronic presents mal functioning). My notebook in que…

I've added 5+ years of life to several of my old laptops with Linux. Spouse was hesitant to try it on their dying windows machine but with Linux it was very usable and absurdly faster. It's actually still usable and it's a 2006 dell.

It's almost time to move their win7 machine to ubuntu

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

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Post by emptysongglass »

moron4hire wrote: post #79
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!…

> Statistically, if you know programming, you probably learned it in a tertiary education setting, most likely in your late teens or early twenties. Just like learning a foreign language at that age, you'll never be perfectly fluent. You'll always have an accent, no matter what you do. I appreciate your story, but this comment bothered me, because it's something people repeat a lot and it's actually not true. There's…

Can people like me hire your company to teach a language at a higher level?
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