Dateline 8-21-2016

So I'm five days into my latest Android app building course and I just finished my second big assignment that has a suggested self-paced due date of September 13th. As I said in past post, this is a beginner's course with content that I thought I had already figured out.

Turns out I was wrong.

Though I could fudge my way through all of these assignments, I'm finding that I am learning way more than I was expecting to at this early stage. I now feel like I'm building apps the right way and not just a way that works to get instant gratification.

The other thing that I like about the way I'm learning through this program is that in the other courses that I've taken all I did was write the same exact code as the instructors as they explain the elements as they go. Everyone that takes the course ends up with the same exact app. With this course, however, the lessons teach you how and why things work and you are left to you own to figure out how to make an app that meets their demands.

This last assignment was to make a scoreboard that required two scoring displays and multiple buttons for a sport with multiple ways to score. For example, you'd have Team A and Team B and then say for basketball you'd have buttons to update each score depending on the type of basket scored. So, you'd have a set of 3 Pointer buttons, 2 Points and a set of free throw buttons, one for each team and one for each scoring style.

At least that was how the sample app worked as we learned the tools needed to build our assignment app. I decided to build a Football Score Board and this is what I came up with...

It's a bit overkill for what the assignment asked for but that's kind of how I roll.

Oh well, that's what I was up to this weekend. I'll probably start the next lesson later tonight. As always, I'll let you know how it turns out.

Talk to you tomorrow,

-The Wicker Breaker