How The IPad Word Completion Has Helped Me

More Than One Way to Learn From IPads

Recently I was working on a personal programming project. In my project, I was using the JQuery programming library, framework, or whatever you would choose to refer to it as.

Anyway, it had been a while since I had written any code for the JQuery API and I was needed to look something up for the specifications on how the newer library handles events because I had troubling bug that I could not see the solution (turns out it was the very primitive error of me including a file which cause a piece of code to execute twice) to the problem and everywhere I looked for others' solutions I was hitting what I will call 'dead ends'.

Anyway, I was watching TV while researching this bug on my wife's IPad when I found a web page that I thought I would like to refer back to later, but since I was using her device and not one of mine, I decided that I would email myself a copy of the link. So I opened up her email account filled out the form, including the subject where I simply typed "JQuery" and fired off the email containing the link to the page I wanted to remember. I closed the program and though nothing of it.

'Enough Already With the Rambling, Get to the Point'

That is what you might be thinking to yourself right now. So, after sending myself the link to the page with the subject line "JQuery", I opened up my email client and could not find an email with the subject "JQuery". However I did see an email with the subject "japery". At first I was confused and then I remembered I had sent the email on my wife's IPad. Apparently, I had not noticed the word completion 'helping' me. So what does this have to do with learning on the IPad? Well, some people really hate the word completion 'feature' (and they might even call this feature a 'bug') of the IPad. But I got to thinking, "if it thought that I was typing the word japery, then japery must be a word...", so even though I had never in my life heard the word japery - that I could remember - it obviously existed.

Now for the Punchline

So I looked up the word japery and found that it means: "acting like a clown or buffoon". The perfect word to replace my selected subject line with. I wanted to send an email about JQuery, but I guess the IPad had a different opinion of programming skills. ;)

Incidentally, the IPad's 'comment' is what sparked my idea for this very blog post.

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