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Do you guys really write code in the app? Seems like a bit of a hustle? Or do you just copy & paste?
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u can write code fully here on mobile or a tab☺
//with time your speed will increase 👍
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@Lloyd... As a moderator on SoloLearn, I will kindly request you refrain from posting unsolicited comments for people to read your previous posts, the last of which is entirely off-topic. In fact, you don't have a single post even remotely related to the subject on this thread.
Such comments serve no purpose other than to spam your own previous answers, which have been pointed out by others as being irrelevant to this thread.
If you would like to discuss this further, feel free to join the SoloLearn Chat on DiscordApp and I will be happy to engage with you further.
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if some short codes then on phone, but for longer it is more practical on laptop
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@Lloyd... Why are you giving unsolicited programming advice to Jamie? She's actually a professional software developer who has been in this field for as long (or longer) than me.
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It is easier with hackers keyboard as you have a complete keyboard with all shortcuts. I also plug a physical keyboard into my Android phone for massive edit sessions.
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@Rabee... Nice!
I have a Samsung Note 8 and have used the SideSync app over USB to control my phone via screen share on my MacBook Pro. It's actually quite nice to do challenges with a real mouse and keyboard. I still struggle coding in the app even with a keyboard.
I am thinking of ordering a Samsung Dex Station to see if there is any improvement using SoloLearn on a Linux desktop.
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if I need to write a lot of code, I will use the web browser version of sololearn and type on my laptop. Otherwise I'll just use my phone or tablet
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@joko... I just realized I might have misunderstood your question. If you are asking if people write code directly in the SoloLearn app, for me, I do not. Like Jamie, I write the code on my MacBook Pro and copy and paste to the SoloLearn Code Playground.
Apologies for the confusion in my last post.
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Good point. I'll keep that in mind if I retry this on my phone with a keyboard again.
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I have the app downloaded on to devices , a smart phone and a tab , for challenges I use the phone and for coding I use the tab after connecting it to a keyboard with an otg plug , before that writing code with phone keyboard was a real pain but now things are different , by the way u can connect your smartphone to a keyboard with an otg plug
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Yes!! The reason is I can code anywhere anytime 😊👍
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@joko... For people in the early stages of learning to program, my guess is that many will search for code snippets to use and modify to work for their current project. However, as you become more comfortable, confident, and proficient in writing code, the idea of copying and pasting code makes less sense.
Ultimately, you will reach a place in your career where writing code is effortless and requires very little thought process. Once I know what I'm working on and the approach I want to take with a given feature, I pretty much just crank out code as fast as I would write a well thought out email.
In fact, I think many seasoned developers, like myself, spend more effort editing emails to check for necessary revisions than they do for code.
In other words, don't be discouraged if writing code from scratch seems to be slow and difficult. It eventually becomes very quick and natural. Just give it time and keep practicing.
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i see your points. thanks!
initially I was just wondering if you write codes that you publish in this app write on your smartphones or on your PCs and copy it into the app. because I personally find the smartphone keyboard so annoying!
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@David Carol u can also rotate screen of a tab when writing code giving u more space
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Jaime... It seems like he might have misunderstood what was being asked in this question. I made a similar mistake which you could see in my first post here. 😉
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@joko... I completely agree with you about not wanting to code on a mobile keyboard. I'm so used to going so fast on a standard keyboard, it's very frustrating on the phone. Even though I can type quite fast using swipe gestures, it doesn't quite translate as well to programming constructs and symbols used.
With the amount of time spent deleting and fixing so many typos along the way or the time wasted in manually adjusting the indents when moving some code blocks around, it's not worth it for me to even try programming on the phone.
I've tried using several different keyboarding apps for coding. However, they all seem to have their short comings.
Even with an external Bluetooth keyboard, I've not been able to reformat the indents of multiple lines without it becoming a series of hitting the spacebar or delete keys for each line.
I even hate typing posts on my keyboard for responses like this because of how slow it is. 😉
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@David I'm not sure if landscape view works on the phone with a keyboard, on a tab surely it does
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If I'm not on the move and close to my PC I'll write something via app on my cell and test it, but in general it is a hassle and it is way easier to just use some txt editor on your PC and just copy/paste the code.
I don't mind using the sololearn app, it just lacks certain explanations about it's functionality. For instance my first "project got deleted completely because, I didn't save and I selected jQuery tab cause I wanted to see what is the actual difference between html/css/JavaScript and jQuery tabs environments for coding in the app.
TL;DR, it is doable and it works just fine, but I would recommend using a text editor of your choice.
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I agree the phone keyboard is a pain. I spent the money to buy a OTG cable and USB keyboard to help with that. However, my biggest program within SoloLearn is over 1100 lines and most was coded using touch screen keyboard. Maybe 10% was done with the physical keyboard.
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@John Wells: Do you know is there is a way to highlight multiple lines and change indents using tab or shift+tab keys?
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