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> You can't get started by running scripts in a shell, or writing AppleScript, or whatever — you get apps from the App Store and that's it. What if you get sta
by adriand 17y ago
> You can't get started by running scripts in a shell, or writing AppleScript, or whatever — you get apps from the App Store and that's it.
What if you get started by writing HTML and Javascript code into a nice online editor - something like Bespin, or like those many different sites where you can code in all sorts of languages using a web-based front-end - and you get to publish your results to a web page and see the results immediately?
Does it get any easier than that?
Code - publish - save to home screen - "hey dad, check out this application I just made!"
- jodrellblank 17y agoMy comment elsewhere: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1084669 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1084669 Agreed - maybe even adding to your homescreen as a javascript bookmarklet so it's available offline. Anyway, yes maybe the iPad wont inspire the next engineers, maybe it will inspire the next authors/bloggers/photographers/web developers/content creators.
- stellar678 17y agoI think the iPad does its best to _not_ inspire creators of any type. It's a device focused almost entirely on content consumption. For a few years there Apple put much of their effort into creating tools that gave more people access to the means of content production. Now that they own major channels of media distribution (more all the time with the introduction of "xyz store"), their effort is focused on promoting content consumption much more than content production.