Run Programming ?????

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> On Friday, December 12, 2014, William Ray Wing <w... at mac.com> wrote:
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> On Dec 12, 2014, at 8:03 AM, Chris Warrick <kwpolska at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Dec 12, 2014 1:40 PM, "Delgado Motto" <riskyayuda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I travel alot, if not just interested in things of pocketable portability, and was curious if you can tell me if Python can be LEARNED from beginner on an IOS device ( with interest of being able to test my code, possibly even if a free website is capable of reviewing scripts ) but if not then I prefer if you can suggest a language that can be used from such a machine. My ultimate goal is to be able to create web pages and internet bots capable of searching specific things for me, simply to save me time in my day as little as crawling Youtube for a song that fails to be uploaded or other related examples. Please advise me. Thanks.  
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> Get a real computer. An iOS device won't work, unless you care to buy a vps, use ssh and can stand the onscreen keyboard. It's easier to buy a notebook.
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> Second the motion.  Apple's sandbox policies on iOS devices mean that while you can run Python on them (there are several versions available), the sandbox  pretty much guarantees that at some point you will need a library you can't import, and you won't be able to test your web pages as you go.
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> A MacBook Air is within a fraction of being as portable as an iPad, and can easily do everything you want.  If you are currently traveling with an iPad, you _might_ even discover you prefer traveling with the MacBook.
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On Friday, December 12, 2014 7:44:12 AM UTC-8, Delgado Motto wrote:
> I was specifically talking POCKETABLE devices so Phablet or Telephone preferably, simply hopeful as smaller machines continue to become more capable, but I expected as much of this being a problem. Thanks. 
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Its not a matter of processing power.  The Motorola Droid I got five years ago could certainly run a Python app if someone wrote an interpreter for it, and I imagine someone already has.

The problem is actually writing code.  Typing on a touch-screen keyboard is already difficult enough.  Dealing with frequently having to type special characters (parentheses, brackets, colons, etc.) and numbers would make it extremely tedious to the point of being painful.  Top that off with having a tiny screen so you can only see around 5 lines of code at a time and being unable to have a decent debugging UI, and you're really looking at a truly miserable time.

The real challenge won't be the software engineering, it'll be fighting with an absolutely piss-poor interface for doing it.