Is there a way to do the exercises on an iPad?

[christianboyce]

Is there an app that would let me type in an Objective-C program and run it and see the results? Not a full-blown "iXcode" but something like a terminal? I looked but did not find.

By the way, this is my first experience with this particular forum software-- and I can't say I'm impressed. The icons are cheesy, and getting an error message because I attempted to post within 300 seconds of a previous post is silly. Why make me wait? It's a time-waster. Picture attached.

[skochan]

In Chapter 2 (page 16) you'll see the command line commands you can use in Terminal to compile and run Objective-C programs.   That's under Mac OS X, not on an iPad.

There's no way to do what you want to do on an iPad, although I have had ideas along developing something that would allow that to work.

The 300 second limit is there to reduce spamming.  Spammers have posted as many as 100 posts within that timeframe.  Putting the delay in has significantly reduced the problem.

Cheers,

Steve

[MarkCooperstein]

I’m not sure if this is what your talking about, but you can use your iPad as a remote terminal to your Mac with a product called Splash Code Remote.  I use it and it works great, although it’s designed for local LAN use primarily although there are ways to use it over the Internet if your clever.  See: http://www.splashtop.com/remote

Mark

[christianboyce]

Thanks for the explanation about the 300-second rule. I thought though that we had to have an account and be "approved" to post here, which I would have guessed makes it hard for a spammer. Maybe not hard enough.

Would be cool to use the iPad to run the programs. However, as you have said, you don't learn much by copying and pasting code, and that is probably what I would do if the iPad could run the programs. I'd copy it out of the text and paste into whatever it was that ran the code on the iPad and not learn very much. Typing into the Xcode window is better, even though my mistakes are frustratingly and staggeringly stupid. I missed a semicolon the other day and though I spent a lot of time looking right at it but not seeing, I learned something along the way. So, maybe it's just as well.

(My original question was not very clear-- I was talking about running the programs on an iPad, and forgot to mention that.)