I kind of had the opposite, I bought the N900, then thought "I want to really learn how to program for this thing." I'd always kind of been interested in learning programming (was going to start with Perl, and have a ton of Perl books, but I've seen more and more things (graphical things especially) that are written with Python, so decided to learn that instead.

Nothing like being able to run IDLE right there on your phone

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