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

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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.

thanks for pointing it out!

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

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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…

Since shipping hardware looks like it won’t work, what’s available to buy in terms of hardware where you are? Seems like a bigger screen would help.

And then there’s the problem of money transfer. I’m guessing moving money through paypal/bitcoin/etc. doesn’t work?

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

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He "learned HTML, CSS, Sass, bootstrap, material UI, and Javascript with the setup he has made 2 months ago".

No he didn't.

If I could be bothered, I would take a picture of a rocket launch and say my little brother reached orbit today with this spatula glued to a deodorant can.

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

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I think of all those people with phones that easily break because the phone was not made so well. Or because the children are not so tech savvy to make garabage tech work. Like I can. Having been in a highly stressed environment myself, the emotions that drive them to self harm are all too well known for me.

> garabage tech I know this was a typo, but it feels like an unintentional portmanteau of "garbage" and "garage" which seems to fit particularly well. I hope you don't go back to edit this! Also: Borrowing!

I’m honored. But if it was intentional:

Gar(b)age tech.

Or GARbAGE tech.

Or garBage tech.

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

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It's close to my story, I learned html and js using my mobile - Nokia N70. There was no ide or syntax highlighting and very little multitasking, but I was able to build websites and publish them. Was such a great moment when people saw my website! Got PC with the internet 3 years after my first website went public

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

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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.

> 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.

Red tape is definitely an issue, but freight costs to Nepal are also extremely high. It's a landlocked country with very poor transportation networks. Air courier (eg DHL) to Kathmandu is in the range of $5/kg, and if the final destination is in a village it needs to be hand-carried there. So accessing cheap stuff from abroad is much harder than we might think coming from developed countries. There is no such thing as slapping on a FedEx label right to the final destination.

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Yeah, I wish the governments in India and Nepal would provide some subsidies to incentivize companies to manufacture boards like to RPi which as far as I understand have open specifications. Giving a RPi to a family without resources in India is a force multiplier. They typically have a small television set and letting them access a proper computer vitalizes learning for the children of that household. I only have an…

Pi is nice, but also used hardware would do the job. At least in Western countries old Core2 Duo business desktops are basically worthless by now, and such laptops don't exactly cost much either. Why not export more of those and get some more years out of them before recycling? They are perfectly adequate for learning to program.

I've met people before who do exactly that. Margins aren't huge, but it's profitable for people in both countries.

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

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

I've dreamt in bash-like, but in my defense it was kind of a fever dream.

I had a nightmare in LISP once. At least ... I saw a lot of parenthesis.

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

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Sadly, Raspberry Pi can't be manufactured by third parties, since Broadcom doesn't sell the SoCs to the public. There are some other ARM SBCs listed here, but I'm not familiar with them enough to know whether they're good substitutes. (Hopefully the "Banana Pi" is?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_computing_...

I was going to explain that the only difference between the raspberry pi & generic pi is the support that comes from having the mindshare/marketshare. But honestly, I think in the scope of the real issue it's mostly bike-shedding. If you want to deliver a million Pi to the subcontinent, the real problem isn't the dollar difference between the various SBC. If you compare a Pi to a phone, you also have to bring .. - Po…

Also an armchair quarterback, but yes, to me one of the great mentionable intellectual/ecological "crimes" is the non-updateability of billions of phones. We don't have infinite retries at using physical resources on the scale we have.

That said, I haven't looked at how many tools work all the way back to much older versions of Android.

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