Right, don't slack on your exams, but nothing beats practice. Sure you might get a job just because of your degree but you might suck as a programmer.
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Kristopher Micinski <krismicin...@gmail.com>wrote: > Though at the same time, getting a good grade on an exam may be important > for your future job / school prospects, and I doubt your professor is going > to like the "some guy on a mailing list told me to" excuse *again*.... :o) > > To add some real advice, do you know Java? If not, time to learn that > first. (If you try to "just start programming" without actually learning > Java, this is going to be tough.) Picking it up from C++ is fairly easy, so > that also might work for you. > > Java is extremely easy to pick up, you don't need to know java to start developing for android. It would be a waste of time. Learn as you go, make mistakes, improve on them. > Next all you have to become familiar with is the execution model on > Android: views, intents, etc... Basically, the most important concepts are > the "big categories" on the main android documentation page. So read > through this page: http://developer.android.com/guide/index.html > > This "main developer guide" is actually pretty short and you can pick up > what you need to know quickly enough if you read through it. This project > looks like it has a fair number of moving parts: accessing files (where is > it stored?) and using content providers and/or SQLite stuff. Along with > that, you'll want to thing about the design of the toplevel app as well. > > You seem to have "compiled" your app description to a high level view of > how you think it will be implemented, but what do you actually want to do? > Make a searchable table of contents for a reference book or something? A > specific book? An arbitrary book? Will the indexing be done offline, or > online? (I.e., can you compile the indexes using some other code on another > machine and then load the database, or do you need to write the indexing > code to run on the Android? I guess this is fairly batch, so maybe it > doesn't matter much.) > > Anyway, that should point you in the right direction. > > If you want to google some things: > -- Views android > -- Content providers android > -- sqlite android > -- accessing files android > -- (How are you going to implement clicking things and displaying a list? > Perhaps look at ListView for a prototype, which I use a good amount more > than I should.) > > Kris > > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Miguel Morales <therevolti...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Remember that memorizing things is useless, practice, practice, practice. >> The time you spend on your projects will probably help you more than >> memorizing some silly exams. >> >> >> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:02 PM, res_au <richard.shan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Thanks for your reply Miguel, >>> >>> Like everything I guess, you learn from experience. I'm looking >>> forward to get into it soon! (I have my final year exam in a week, I >>> find myself always working on projects just before exams!) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Richard >>> >>> On May 4, 7:37 am, Miguel Morales <therevolti...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > Honestly, the best way to learn what you would do is to get your hands >>> dirty >>> > and do it yourself. >>> > Research different methods of implementing what you want, and you'll >>> > probably fail a couple of times but will learn a lot in the process. >>> That's >>> > how most of us gain experience in programming. You won't gain much >>> > experience with somebody holding your hand all the way. >>> > Perhaps if you had a more specific question we could provide better >>> help. >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:11 AM, res_au <richard.shan...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > > Hi guys, >>> > >>> > > I'm ideally looking at making an app that searches 2 local folders of >>> > > html files (1000s) and then lets you go directly to the search result >>> > > you click on. I'm guessing I could do it in two ways, by firstly >>> > > indexing the folders (they won't change, it's a reference book) and >>> > > then using sqlite to search the index database, or maybe even >>> actually >>> > > searching each time? they are maybe 60mb. >>> > >>> > > I guess I just was wondering if anyone could help point me in the >>> > > right direction. 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