Re: Thinking out loud

2022-01-14 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Android apps run on Chromebooks and I have several installed, including 3 
of my own. There are a few glitches when rotating to tablet mode on 
Chromebooks that support that feature but in general they work pretty well.


For you, that would be the easiest way forward. The main problem is that 
apps outside the Play Store can't be installed on Chromebooks without 
booting into developer mode and that isn't an option for students. On the 
other hand, getting your app into the Google Play Store is far easier than 
Apple makes it.


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HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On January 14, 2022 12:20:14 PM William Prothero via use-livecode 
 wrote:



Folks:
Just thinking out loud.

My hobby and gift to pay back all of the money I got from the National 
Science Foundation over my career, is to program and make educational 
applications about Earth Science. I’m finding, tho, that for younger kids, 
Chromebooks are mostly used. So, tapping into the vast experience of 
livecode users on this list, what advice would you give me? Livecode on the 
web? Google Classroom dev in Python?  Is the web deployment of the livecode 
server getting to a place where it is actually practical in comparison to 
other solutions?


My son is a 5’th grade teacher. He uses Google Classroom a lot. I would 
want apps I develop to work in that environment too. Or … function in a web 
browser. I see that LiveCode 10 versions are supporting webASM. It also 
looks like a direction I could go.


The reason I’m favoring apps that work in a browser is then I don’t have to 
worry about the app stores and my work would/should run on different machines.


So, I would appreciate any thoughts or suggestions you might have. I’ve 
programmed in numerous languages (but forgotten lots) and am not averse to 
learning new ones (Javascript?).


Best,
Bill


William Prothero
waproth...@gmail.com
https://earthlearningsolutions.org


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Thinking out loud

2022-01-14 Thread William Prothero via use-livecode
Folks:
Just thinking out loud.

My hobby and gift to pay back all of the money I got from the National Science 
Foundation over my career, is to program and make educational applications 
about Earth Science. I’m finding, tho, that for younger kids, Chromebooks are 
mostly used. So, tapping into the vast experience of livecode users on this 
list, what advice would you give me? Livecode on the web? Google Classroom dev 
in Python?  Is the web deployment of the livecode server getting to a place 
where it is actually practical in comparison to other solutions?

My son is a 5’th grade teacher. He uses Google Classroom a lot. I would want 
apps I develop to work in that environment too. Or … function in a web browser. 
I see that LiveCode 10 versions are supporting webASM. It also looks like a 
direction I could go.

The reason I’m favoring apps that work in a browser is then I don’t have to 
worry about the app stores and my work would/should run on different machines.

So, I would appreciate any thoughts or suggestions you might have. I’ve 
programmed in numerous languages (but forgotten lots) and am not averse to 
learning new ones (Javascript?).

Best,
Bill


William Prothero
waproth...@gmail.com
https://earthlearningsolutions.org


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