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You can probably read all the content of the courses on your phone and even run a basic Python/R interpreter on it, but no. Phone keyboards suck for programming and there are a ton of programs you can't run on a phone (like RStudio or Python IDEs).

Just get a cheap desktop and keyboard on Craigslist. I've found ones for as little as 20USD. Or you might be able to use a Raspberry Pi, if you're into that.

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yes IDEs are not possible. I found one for Python called QPython but not sure how it is. After using some of the desktop IDEs, not sure whether to call it by same name.

Since you're using python and R I'm gonna throw Jupyter (used to be called ipython) into the mix (I'm using it half the time on desktop anyway because notebooks format everything so beautifully). You might also want to install Hacker's Keyboard from the play store so you have access to shift/enter/ctrl, and while I havent personally used it on a phone it should work fine. Here is a random tutorial link http://bretahajek.com/2016/12/jupyter-notebook-opencv-androi...

And using termux+vim is definitely an IDE, but has a pretty damn steep learning curve.

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