alt Hacker News>most personal computing devices don't boot into a programming environment
Yes, but now everyone and their mum has a personal computing device, and there's tutorials readily accessible, and five seconds of googling can bring you to an online programming environment.
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josephg • yesterday at 2:03 PM
You can also pull up a repl in any desktop web browser by pressing F12.
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All true, but the onramp isn't included in the box. When you get a smartphone, how do you know that you could even program it? Is there any encouragement to do so vs. just buying apps? They are more like game consoles, in more ways than one.
As I mentioned, I think graphing calculators might be an exception.