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Re:Developing with Squeak on a Cellphone by rjsw on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @07:13AM (#24707085)
How about a visual system like Blockly [1], maybe with larger features to work better on a touchscreen.

[1] https://developers.google.com/blockly

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Re:Developing with Squeak on a Cellphone by jecel on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @10:25AM (#24708546)
Squeak includes EToys, which was the inspiration for Scratch (originally written in Squeak, then rewritten in Flash and then rewritten in Javascript) which was the inspiration for most current block languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etoys_(programming_language)

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Re:Developing with Squeak on a Cellphone by simonh on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @11:27AM (#24709210)
I don't think visual code blocks based systems are particularly efficient at space usage. Code blocks are dragged and dropped in from a panel of blocks, which I would think would work best on as large a screen as possible.
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