(July 12, 2015 at 7:48 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(July 11, 2015 at 8:23 am)emjay Wrote: we never did any specifically programming units in college but now it seems to be all the rage - you with android and benny teaching Unity
I don't teach in college. I teach elementary students in an afterschool English business, just for hoots. That's how easy it is in Unity to get something, anything, onto an android phone.
That's really cool. I'd guess Unity is a great introduction to programming for kids that instils a lifelong interest in some of them? Much as Amos did for me when I was a kid. Do you give your students free reign to go wherever their imaginations take them, and end up with all sorts of weird and wacky games, or do you follow a more strict curriculum of tutorials, or both?
Anyway, back to me
I'm definitely leaning towards a Surface Pro 3 now. 128gb storage, i5 processor, 4gb RAM (I think), for about £670. I haven't got a decent tablet and I've always wanted one so it seems a good idea. And since it says it comes with a stylus of some kind I think that could be ideal for Unity because apart from the small amounts of code you write, most of it's about changing settings or manipulating objects in the 3D view. I'm not certain about getting this yet, and the laptop's going back for its refund today so will still have to wait for that to come through and hope there are no complications, but I am leaning towards the Surface. If not that, Samsung as I said 
PS I don't suppose you'd be interested in giving mafia a try? It's very very addictive and once you've played one I'm sure you'd be hooked
