Re:Google offering free Chromebooks to Indian schools
by patrickaljord on Friday December 27, 2013 @06:12AM
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If you install crouton, you can learn prolog or anything or if you just hit Ctrl+Alt+T you already have access to bash and chroot into any linux distro or ssh to a cheap vm.
Re:Google offering free Chromebooks to Indian schools
by agumonkey on Friday December 27, 2013 @06:28AM
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I know, I said that as a snarky conclusion. It's just that you really don't need a full OS in these days of 'everything in the browser' to learn. I say to learn, because web-based everything is often a little bit too slow and resource consuming as of now, but to learn you don't need snap fast interfaces and interpreters.
- repl for a handful of languages from javascript to haskell with lisps in between.
- jsfiddle to learn ~basic client-side webdev.
- canvas/webgl to learn ~basic graphic programming.
- if you dig deep enough you have VPRI OMeta for parser/metaprogramming.
- if you're not in a hurry you can even learn ~basic unix (busybox, gcc 4.3) on Fabrice Bellard's jslinux
I don't think you can learn prolog easily though.