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Do I need to download an app for that?

Nowadays people tend to be more connected to internet due to the development of technologies, such as smartphones and tablets. In this case what we tend to notice is that people need these kind of things to do their everyday activities, but there is a point where the user needs to think: do i really need this app that will use my memory or could I live accessing it through my web browser?

In this case the answer we could get could be divided into two groups: the ones that download any app they need and just use it for the day and keep it forever, and the group who access the website. In any of those cases we need to consider any case that these groups answer to.

As we have seen in many other clases yo create an app is kind of easy with nowadays technology, where the same programming language can be used to create an app for iOS and Android. But in the case  of a website or a webapp we tend to think just inside a  box of what we can do with this kind of technology. What I mean is that we tend to think that apps are more useful than a webapp due to smartphones, but no, all smartphones have a  web browser and we can create the same thing for many devices and without many hard work.

In this case what the text suggests is that we can build a compiler for a website and how everything that we have learned could get us to that way.  Up to this point we should have already know what's a compiler, what do we need and some basics of programming languages to create it.  The important element here to consider is  why should we create a compiler for a website? 

Personally I think that we should ask the developer or even the user this question,  what are you gonna do there?  Their answers could be as simple as " use it as AWS", "to run programs in my tablet", and so on. It is important to take into consideration what we can do with what we have learned up to this point and. To think outside the box, where we could create an app more or we could generate  something we could have used while we were studying.

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