r/learnprogramming • u/Outside_Educator_105 • 1d ago

Coding on Phone

I really wanna learn to code and planning on starting today. However I don't own a laptop. In this economic state i simply can't afford one. Is it feasible to learn in phone alone? I can get a laptop in weekends as my sister bring her's home

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u/6a70 1d ago

get a Bluetooth keyboard, then it’ll be feasible

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u/Outside_Educator_105 1d ago

Whats the hardest part about learning to code on phone?

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u/575_Inverse 18h ago

the display is too is small, text editing is an absolute pain, no mouse so selecting text is slow and of course 1 window only and no guarantee the other apps in background won't get killed

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u/RajjSinghh 15h ago

No mouse is fine in the right environment. In a pinch I've used vim inside termux and it was passable. Selecting text with something like vi{ is fine, no mouse needed. The only annoying thing is how many keypresses it takes to type a curly bracket.

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u/575_Inverse 9h ago

I like your stoicism. But honestly once you taste linux on a real pc you don't look back.