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It's really _only_ code that is harder to create on tablets though, and it strikes me as extremely narrow-minded to write off the music, art, text, huge Minecra
by thom 13y ago
It's really _only_ code that is harder to create on tablets though, and it strikes me as extremely narrow-minded to write off the music, art, text, huge Minecraft sculptures, photos and videos of singing, dancing, playing, that have been gleefully created by people young and old on these devices.
It's the exact sort of snobbery that has almost completely killed art, dance, drama and music in many schools, as if the only valuable acts of creation left to humanity are engineering and science (which, incidentally, are both wonderfully served by the innumerable education apps on these locked-down, post-apocalyptic devices).
- robotresearcher 13y agoCode is harder because editing text is harder. Text input and manipulation is just not very good on tablets. Even if you plug a keyboard into iOS editing is still worse than WordPerfect circa 1988. You might type stuff in OK, but manipulating text is awful.
- thom 13y agoYeah, I have no idea how Shakespeare got anything done.
- robotresearcher 13y agoSure. 884,421 words[1]. And with that workload, I bet he used the most efficient technology available at the time to do it. [1] http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/stats/ http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/stats/