On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:57 PM, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Domin8rJ <limjunjie621...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, I was asked to create an Android application for my school's >> final year project, but I have zero experience in this area.. had never >> programmed an app before.. > > > I have to ask why you were tasked with such an assignment as your final > project if you have zero experience with it? Usually a final project is a > culmination of everything you have learned in your course work, not some > monumental task the student has no clue about just to watch them squirm. >
I disagree.. In the universities which which I've been affiliate we typically educate undergrads in traditional languages (C/C++/OCaml/Java/etc...), and using fairly standard APIs, but don't typically teach frameworks as a part of our courses. It's fairly common to ask a student as a final project to take all of these courses and then learn the framework using the knowledge they've gained over the years of their theoretical and applied coursework. I don't think that Android is a significantly new API or programming environment, and if you know Java (and even if you don't, but know C++ or something similar-ish well enough) will be very easy to pick up.. If you have a year of time to do so, I'd start by doing the following: - reading the developer guide - playing with a bunch of the sample apps - perhaps buying a copy of Mark Murphy's android book (the commonsware guide) if you find yourself needing more explained examples of the API, etc... kris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
