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Re:Choosing Minecraft over Disney by greggman on Sunday May 19, 2013 @02:10PM (#5733790)
This! I don't know if the fact that an iPad can't be programmed but kids are getting tons of them is a net positive (exposure to stuff in general) or a net negative (no programming allowed). Wishing Apple would relax their restrictions.
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Re:Choosing Minecraft over Disney by gurkendoktor on Sunday May 19, 2013 @02:15PM (#5733810)
You can program games on the iPad:

http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/

It all depends on what you compare it to. To me, iPad and iPhone are the new SNES and Game Boy (which I grew up with), and they are much more open. The biggest loss to me is the experience of playing socially on a split-screen.

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Re:Choosing Minecraft over Disney by claudius on Sunday May 19, 2013 @02:29PM (#5733881)
I wouldn't say I was programming at the age of 9 on the Pentium I with Windows 95, but I was happily clicking away in Windows Explorer, quite literally ‘exploring’. Programming started a few years later with QBASIC and such :)
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