Jack's Blog
Math graduate student, also interested in computers and ham radio. Modded Minecraft player.
Code on iPad
Translated from Chinese version 7ce78f8. When someone notice that I am running something resembling Visual Studio Code on an iPad, their reactions mostly fall into two categories: some of them are surprised and then keep asking me how it is done, while some of them just leave me a sharp comment: What’s the point of doing this? 🤣 The story starts from here. I am a math student. When I first got into college, I bought an iPad with a fancy stylus and started using it for both note-taking and scratch paper. The life of a math student is quite different from those studying natural science or some kind of engineering: our working setup is centered on something you can write on, and you can barely do “math stuff” if you don’t have a scratch paper to function as your external working memory. This is vastly different from another extreme, computer science students, who can probably conduct some serious work whenever a keyboard is available. ...