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

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

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Post by deregulateMed »

raxxorrax wrote: post #3

It must be a horrible work of hackery to turn a smartphone based on iOS or Android into a useful device. Kudos to him. If he was able to do that, then development shouldn't put up much barriers anymore. I would totally buy him a decent PC though.

>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.

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

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hemanta212 wrote: post #42
mnadkvlb wrote: post #35

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Hey, if you are interested you can reply me with your email address here, i can ship you a laptop for free (intel 5th gen i5) that i dont use anymore. it has 4gigs of ram soldered (surface pro 3). and can hopefully be used for some development.

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.

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

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Post by ansible »

andi999 wrote: post #17
ansible wrote: post #6

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While I don't mean to slight the front-end dev's dedication, there are more than a few of us who learned BASIC programming in the late 1970's and early 1980's... without access to any computing device at all. We would study BASIC from manuals and other books, and pour over program listings in magazines. Then we would write out programs on paper, and "interpret" them in our heads to see if they worked correctly. Some…

I have difficulties understanding this. I learned Basic ard 84 on a c64. I don't understand why anybody would learn it without access to any device. I mean what would even get one interested in it/how would one know this exists?

> I have difficulties understanding this. I learned Basic ard 84 on a c64. I don't understand why anybody would learn it without access to any device.

You don't understand my youthful obsession with computers? Or you don't understand that my family couldn't afford a C64 when they first came out?

I hopefully don't have to explain the 2nd reason to you.

As for the first, I don't quite know how to explain that. As I learned of what computers where, and how they worked, it just overtook my ambitions in life. Being a firefighter or astronaut could just not compare to being able to command a machine to perform complex tasks at my bidding. I wanted to work on robots, I wanted to make an AI that could converse with me, I wanted to explore strange new worlds, and more.

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

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Post by MontyCarloHall »

hemanta212 wrote: post #42
mnadkvlb wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, if you are interested you can reply me with your email address here, i can ship you a laptop for free (intel 5th gen i5) that i dont use anymore. it has 4gigs of ram soldered (surface pro 3). and can hopefully be used for some development.

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.

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

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Post by bolbol66 »

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++.

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

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Post by II2II »

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…

It is probably best for them to develop their own solutions based upon their own needs and what they have access to. Offering suggestions is certainly valid, but recognizing that they may not be heeded for various reasons is important. Just look at what happened when the author told his brother that he needed a laptop.
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