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But what better way to learn to program then for an mp3 player. So close to your body. So simple. So I wish some noob programming questions were welcomed here.
Let me suggest to you that the reason we go through such trouble to use the sim instead of actual targets is that running code on a device is a pain in the ass. Pretty much anything is better to learn or test on then an mp3 player.
Quote from: saratoga on December 28, 2009, 11:42:21 PMLet me suggest to you that the reason we go through such trouble to use the sim instead of actual targets is that running code on a device is a pain in the ass. Pretty much anything is better to learn or test on then an mp3 player.I see your side saratoga, but with the greatest respect to your seniority here, I would humbly submit that the above statement only makes sense to me if there were not a sim. There is. I'd go so far as to take it up a notch by saying an even simplier way to learn programming would be to code up something in the 128x64 chip8 rockbox emulator plugin. Double simulatored. But a super simple environment so close to body. Cheap too. Winblows development package costs what, $500 for MS developer kits these days and another $300 of x86 hardware? MP3 player goes for $20 and a kid can use it while waiting for a bus. They wanted one laptop per child. Look what that did. I'd say feed them cheap mp3 players instead. Worth a shot. Just another side to look at.
I'd go so far as to take it up a notch by saying an even simplier way to learn programming would be to code up something in the 128x64 chip8 rockbox emulator plugin. Double simulatored. But a super simple environment so close to body. Cheap too. Winblows development package costs what, $500 for MS developer kits these days and another $300 of x86 hardware? MP3 player goes for $20 and a kid can use it while waiting for a bus. They wanted one laptop per child. Look what that did. I'd say feed them cheap mp3 players instead. Worth a shot. Just another side to look at.Cheers
Show off potential is huge.
Which is fine. In the us, it (computer access) isn't an isue. In a place like India, where they have computer labs and are 15 yeras behind in that respect, and the fraction of time spent programming is small (which it must be), it is even better, since kids can have their cake and eat it too. Show off potential is huge.
Are you missing the whole "you can't program on the MP3 player" point?
Quote from: Jason Taylor on January 01, 2010, 10:01:01 PMShow off potential is huge.Bragging rights are hardly the propper motivation behind learning to program...
But you can't program ON the mp3 player - you can only do that on a computer.
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