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Re: [LUG] Free ipad to every student????

 

On 24 Dec, 2010, at 7:50 pm, Rob Beard wrote:

On 24/12/10 19:18, Alex Mclennan wrote:
now tell the students to write a simple programme on an ipad,can it be
done i dont know i never used one.
alex the noob

The development tools are freely available (at least for Mac, not sure about Windows/Linux).

Not quite as Alex's question (I think) intends: It's easy enough to write software _for_ the iPhone/Pod/Pad on a Mac, and XCode and the SDK are free-as-in-beer, but as a matter of official Apple policy ("no interpreters") it's more or less impossible to write and execute a program _on_ the iPhone/Pod/Pad -- an astonishing "achievement" for a BSD-derived OS.

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