APPS FOR ANDROID AND coding

[LilDef82]

Hey forumers, does any one know how to make applications for android devices and can teach me? really want to learn and as well as learning how to code like css and html.. thanks

[Gachr]

Codecademy is terrible in many ways, which I explained few times already and can again.

Programming apps is very different from coding markup or style (HTML or CSS), so that can be challenging. To program Android apps, you first need to learn a programming language called Java. Then you can download Android SDK (software development kit) and develop apps with it in Java. You can find some Java and Android tutorials on a YouTube channel called "Derek Banas".

[Philosobyte]

7 hours ago, Gachr said:

Codecademy is terrible in many ways, which I explained few times already and can again.

Programming apps is very different from coding markup or style (HTML or CSS), so that can be challenging. To program Android apps, you first need to learn a programming language called Java. Then you can download Android SDK (software development kit) and develop apps with it in Java. You can find some Java and Android tutorials on a YouTube channel called "Derek Banas".

Please link me to one or several of your explanations. Or explain it again if that's easier  I'm already strong in Java, but was considering using it to quickly crash-course other languages such as Python/Javascript. Maybe I should stick with the traditional book method? 

[Gachr]

1 hour ago, Philosobyte said:

Please link me to one or several of your explanations. Or explain it again if that's easier  I'm already strong in Java, but was considering using it to quickly crash-course other languages such as Python/Javascript. Maybe I should stick with the traditional book method? 

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I discourage people from using Codecademy and pages like that, and there are several reasons why:

1. Most of those sites run in isolated environments, so you don't get to use real-life technologies, you don't learn how an interpreter or a compiler works and such.
2. You can't experiment; you only have the closed environment and tasks. You can't just play around with those technologies (because of reason number 1), and playing around is perfect learning experience.
3. You won't learn everything on such site, it's good to get used to reading official guides, APIs and use all "scrap" you find on the internet from day 1, since it is going to be what you'll need to be doing after completing such course.
4. Because those courses are like a path, you can't really skip some things that will be useless to you. For example you don't need to learn about making JS libraries (creating objects and such) if you're just going to do simple website scripting with JQuery.

There probably are few more reasons, but those are off the top of my head.

 

 

[Philosobyte]

15 minutes ago, Gachr said:

That's a copy paste:
 

 

Thanks. It seems as if those flaws have mostly to do with developing good habits and being guided towards a more complete understanding. For someone who already has fundamentals and knows how to use other resources, that doesn't sound so discouraging. 

[Gachr]

Just now, Philosobyte said:

Thanks. It seems as if those flaws have mostly to do with developing good habits and being guided towards a more complete understanding. For someone who already has fundamentals and knows how to use other resources, that doesn't sound so discouraging. 

Reasons 1 and 2 yes, but 3 and 4 still apply.