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by enumjorge 1782 days ago
This is something I’m interested in, but I can’t tell if I need a physical keyboard for this. It’s a coding app so it makes me think there’s going to be a lot of typing involved, but it’s also an iPad app and I imagine you wouldn’t want a keyboard to be a barrier of entry to use the app?
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Tinkerstellar works beautifully with hardware keyboards and trackpads, but you certainly don't need one to use the app. Labs already have all the necessary code in them — so you can simply run it and see what each code snippet does. But you can also edit the code and see how output changes, and the stock on-screen keyboard should work well for that (I've added an extra row of Python specific keys to it, btw).
Isn't that just up to whether or not you want to use a physical keyboard or not? Why would the app make it a hard requirement?