Coding On-The-Go!

This week was mainly a "watching" week.  I did less coding than usual, but continued watching the lectures.  This time I got myself ready for some practice with arrays.  I've also decided to code only select exercises from the book, not all of them.  However, I will do at least half of all the tasks from the chapter.

I've also noticed that it takes up to an hour and a half each day for me to travel by train to and from my day-time job.  During that time I usually play some games or get online from my phone, or something else, not too much time-consuming.  I also carry my iPad with me quite often, and it was always tempting to find some way to do my programming on-the-go, while in traveling.  Many possible solutions came to my mind, but the only working and convenient for me became Textastic for iPad, which is a text-processor designed for typing code.  It provides decent functionality (syntax highlighting, tabulation, quick punctuation keys, etc), and it syncs to FTP, Dropbox, or via browser in clear and simple ways.  And there are lots of supported languages for syntax highlighting, including Java.  Of course there is no way to run the code right from the app, but that's not an urgent need (besides the fact that Apple won't allow something like that on the iPad).

The app currently is $9.99 on the iTunes AppStore, and I know that the price could go down, but I just wanted to support the developer in full and not to wait for some unknown time.  I am very pleased with Textastic and find it to be a very nice productivity tool for any programmer on-the-go.