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N_tro_P wrote: It's interesting that they use the tablets I thought. I wonder if PC dead set touch screen will never replace my mouse and keyboard fanatics will start to see that the next generation thinks the mouse and keyboard are not very useful.
Not so much; tablets are cheap and mobile, and you don't want your kid to hog the desktop with his/her lego's.
N_tro_P wrote: If they are assuming it is simpler to teach kids programming on a tablet, it might just so happen it is easier to teach kids programming on a tablet.
I do not use a keyboard because it is easy, but because it is more efficient.
Try writing a novel on a tablet 
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N_tro_P wrote: In comparison they are about the same. Lego mind storm does not require a state of the art desktop and one can be acquired for a few hundred dollars just as a tablet can be.
Yes; but with the kids playing upstairs one day and downstairs the next, a tablet might be a somewhat more logical choice.
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As voice dictation improves I would assume novelists will write that way... Just my thoughts though.
You're not the first to assume that, as there were word-processors with speech-recognition available years ago. Can you dictate at 180 characters/minute?
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N_tro_P wrote: I have two kids that use tablets far more effectively than I could and then seeing them use the traditional mouse keyboard is funny. They really want nothing to do with it.
For most (simple) interaction, a touch-screen is good enough indeed
N_tro_P wrote: I doubt any novelist can either... Just saying.
A novelist is even worse, they'll edit a single sentence ten times. Try inserting a word in a sentence using voice-commands - or imagine coding using voice-commands. In a cubicle, together with 40 coworkers 
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N_tro_P wrote: Or the word dictation will be smarter than they are and get it right the first time
I do not see any word dictation outclassing Terry Pratchett soon.
N_tro_P wrote: Yeah, because thats where novelists do their best work... A noisy cube environment.
That was in reference to other professions who might use word-recognition, but if that is the only way you can make an arugment then please go ahead and enjoy your little fun
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Can you dictate at 180 characters/minute?
I'm pretty sure anyone Irish can after a couple of Guinness's, at least that's what it sounds like. Whether voice recognition can decipher, hmm.
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N_tro_P wrote: It's interesting that they use the tablets
There are certain subsets of programming where a touchscreen works better, particularly in a more visual programming style. One such obvious subset is simple robotics, where you have input signals that, through simple logic and transformations, affect output drivers.
To be truly practical, a more hybrid approach is necessary and Coding should be like Building Circuits. 
Marc
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They (Lego) should bring out blocks that allow you to assemble the code (similar in concept to Scratch) and have very small LED in to show current program pointer.
hmm... this might be worth prototyping with the nephews when I see then next...
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: should bring out blocks that allow you to assemble the code
Well, that's what I'm working on as per those two links.
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: similar in concept to Scratch
Scratch, while an interesting concept, is too low level and horrific to look at and use, IMHO. 
Marc
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N_tro_P wrote: If they are assuming it is simpler to teach kids programming on a tablet, it might just so happen it is easier to teach kids programming on a tablet. From that, it might just so happen it is easier to program on a tablet. We just can't see it yet.
Clearly, 'for kids' means an excuse for parents to buy one for themselves under the guise of 'an brithday/xmas/other occasion gift for the kids'.
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With 2016 officially over, we can crown Android as 2016's product with most vulnerabilities, and Oracle as the vendor with the most security bugs. And the Flash developers rejoice
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2016 - the year of extremes and unbelievable. When Windows became far more secure than Linux. 
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: 2016 - the year of extremes and unbelievable. When Windows became far more secure unusable than Linux.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You find Windows unusable? Have you considered switching to a different career - something with minimal exposure to computers?
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I do things with computers that most people only dream of some day doing.
Windows is becoming a "consumer product", which might make it easy to do very basic things, like tweet and spend all your time on social sites, but doing anything hard-core or to high professional standards is becoming more and more difficult.
If you are happy with computers that are as crippled as children's "learning toy" computers, perhaps it is you who should move to a different career. Developers should demand more.
Oh, and diving straight in and insulting someone, the first time in your life that you talk to him, is perhaps not the best idea.
Maybe your parents should have invested in better "learning toy" computers -- ones that taught manners.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: the first time in your life that you talk to him
with this account at least 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Ah, yes.
I always forget that there are people who who have to keep changing their names, to hide previous sins.
My on-line name has been "Mark Wallace" since the Internet became available; I've never had the need to change it.
I need to sin more, obviously.
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Please accept my apologies, that was not intended as an insult.
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No worries; it's the Interwebs -- worse things happen with C.
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LOL
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Not only it is insecure, it is unstable and unpolished as well. Yes, talking about Android, not Windows ME.
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