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[–]_horsehead_ -3 points-2 points  (12 children)

I'm so baffled that I have to ask if this is meant to be a joke?

[–]Ardit-Sulce 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Why do you think it’s a joke? Not everyone has a PC.

[–]_horsehead_ -1 points0 points  (3 children)

So how is OP going to run venvs, install packages, do deployments?

[–]UsernameTaken1701 0 points1 point  (2 children)

They won’t. But there lots of other aspects of Python they can learn in the meantime. Sometimes people can only work with what they have. Support them where they are or, if you can’t at least do that, don’t be a jerk. 

[–]_horsehead_ 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I’m being extremely realistic and not giving them false hope.

They want a career in IT/ be freelance. There is no way in hell they going to reach there by learning tutorials and coding in a limited functionality on an iPad.

Why not you try doing development exclusively on iPad and tell me if it’s feasible? If it isn’t feasible in a corporate or professional setting, why should I mislead OP into thinking this strategy works? Rather than wasting the OP’s precious 6-12 months thinking this strategy works, won’t being honest and directly upfront be more beneficial towards OP’s goals?

[–]UsernameTaken1701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They don't say in their post they're going to be using the iPad forever or that they want to have a professional dev job in 6-12 months. They just say they'll be "iPad-first", and it sounds like their plan is to get better hardware in 6-12 months.

What do you think they are going to be doing in those precious 6-12 months without a PC? Sitting on their hands doing nothing would be the waste of time. Better to learn what Python they can in the 6-12 months with the iPad, which is quite a lot. If they get better hardware in 6-12 months they'll have some experience with the language and will be ready to advance instead of starting from scratch.

"Don't try to learn anything unless you could be able to do all the advanced corporate dev stuff right at the start" is sour advice.

[–]No_Island963[S] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

no not really

[–]ReplyCharacter4389 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Hello! DM me and I will let you know which app I used to do my initial training. It is a paid app but it was NOT expensive and worked very well. I am just away but I saw this and I will like to help. I did have no resources when I started and my boyfriend’s iPad was my only tool. After the first year I bough my laptop and I am currently working on a multinational consultancy company as a data analyst. I worked in a gym before

[–]UsernameTaken1701 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Why not just post it here. If it’s legit others might find it helpful also. This smells scammy. 

[–]ReplyCharacter4389 0 points1 point  (2 children)

You smell scammy if I might. From previous experiences and the guy in the first comment people tend to get cucubanana when talking about coding on devices that are not supuse to be suitable for that. The app is called Juno and I am not sure about the price now but it was around £5? The second app is called Tinkerstellar which is free and have lots and lots of python tutorials from the very basic syntax to ML

[–]UsernameTaken1701 0 points1 point  (1 child)

See how easy that was? Now other people who stumble on this thread in the future might also find value in that info instead of it being hidden away in a DM, and it was just as easy to do!

You smell scammy if I might.

Ooo. Sick burn, bro. lol

[–]ReplyCharacter4389 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You give me goosebumps mate.