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I'm at least convinced that unless we make phones and iPads into good programming machines, the next generation of programmers will suffer. I know in my own ext
by logn 11y ago
I'm at least convinced that unless we make phones and iPads into good programming machines, the next generation of programmers will suffer. I know in my own extended family, children are no longer given access to full computers and qwerty keyboards. Their parents will install all sorts of apps on their devices for children, from games to flashcards to entertainment, but it never occurs to them to install something related to programming. If this app can solve that it's a win. But really something like the app JavaScript Anywhere is good enough, except that the iPad onscreen keyboard is particularly unfriendly for programmers (curly braces take 3 clicks to type).
- meric 11y agoI have been thinking about a new input paradigm, where people can use only their thumb to program. Hold the screen with thumb, a wheel comes up with a circle of options, guessed based on (Markov chain?) a list of symbols most likely to be entered next. The language needs to work with that paradigm well and also it appears tricky to implement so I'm far from working on it...