On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:22 AM, msacks <[email protected]> wrote: > The best way to learn, is by doing, as in just write apps with no prior > experience. >
If "no prior experience" means you have never programmed, you've never heard of Eclipse, and you haven't touched the SDK, you're simply not going to jump straight into writing an app. You could certainly try, but good luck understanding the Android Activity Lifecycle before you know what a "class" is. I agree that the best way to learn is to do, but there are steps involved in what you do and what you learn. If you put the cart before the horse, you're going to step in it's manure ... or whatever the saying is. > I spent 4 years (and a lot of money) in college working on a Bachelor of > Science in Information Technology, and I didn't learn as much as I did > just from writing apps. > I'm willing to bet though that in those 4 years you learned enough to allow you to get started writing apps. > I wrote this article to help folk like you get started, so that at least > you can have a full toolbox to start playing around with some demo apps. > http://www.thebitsource.com/featured-posts/getting-started-with-the-android > -sdk-in-10-minutes/ > Nice article indeed (good work), but again, if the OP has no programming experience at all (which he hasn't clarified), all the playing around with demo apps isn't going to help until he understands the language. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
