If you look around, about half those posting here (and on other forums for other platforms) are kids who have essentially no programmer training but have managed to modify a few example projects to do interesting (to them) things and hence consider themselves to be programmers. They all believe that they have (or very shortly will have) the next killer app (which is usually a game) and are only months away from striking it rich (if only those curmudgeons on the forums would answer their queries with a few hundred lines of free code rather than cryptic "read the documentation" responses). A few of these guys will go on to develop decent programming skills, but most don't have the patience for it (and patience is the #2 requirement for programming).
(The #1 requirement for programming is a love of it that surpasses your love for money and often your love of food and sleep.) On May 15, 5:30 am, Harri Smått <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 15, 2011, at 6:18 AM, Adam Ratana wrote: > > > - have fun, experience some joy and passion for the process, it's an end in > > itself! > > I can't help from leaving a comment on this point. For me, the whole buzz > around Android reminds me a lot of the times we had back in 90s on C64 (here > in Finland at least). Back then, almost all of my friends had a personal > 'software house', writing some kind of a game from their head using basic > mostly. This time there's the Internet, making it a bit more of a 'global' > thing, but I see many similarities. In the 90s you showcased your application > to your parents and friends most of the time, now you have AppStore etc for > wider audience. > > But all the same, I've been very pleased to see how many people have gotten > involved into software development, thanks to Android, and maybe iOS too (I > really have no idea what's happening on that side) lately. So yeah, from what > I've seen so far, there seem to many people, me included, who really enjoy > all this. > > -- > H -- 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
