Getting started with code?
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Getting started with code involves learning the basics of software development through various stages like problem identification, design, coding, testing and deployment. It is best to work as part of a team by dividing tasks like programming, design and research. Useful resources for learning to code include meetups, online courses and tutorials. Popular integrated development environments help in creating, debugging and maintaining programs. Common platforms for developing mobile apps include Android, Windows Phone and Qt, each with their own tools, programming languages and publishing methods.
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Getting started with code?
- 2. <code?> source code is any collection of computer instructions written using some human-readable programming language many people use the term ‘code’ to refer to the activity of computer programming or software development in general
- 3. software development not just programming has several stages e.g identifying the problem market research designing the software-based solution implementation (coding) testing deployment maintenance and bug fixing
- 4. work as a team dividing the tasks involved in the development process helps cut the workload and reduces the development time assign different roles; programmerdesigner researcher market analyst
- 5. software applications in the real world Ma3Route medAfricaiCow transport healthagriculture
- 6. benefit : monetization pay per download in-app purchasing advertising direct sales indirect sales
- 7. other benefits build commercial or industrial enterprise not every app is a business not every business needs an app the success of an app can create or attract the capital needed to build that enterprise through: return on sales, hackathon prizes, angle investors
- 8. opportunity* growing market large number of mobile users government support e.g opendata.go.ke internet users 14.032M mobile subscribers 29.7M penetration of mobile telephony services 75.4% data source: cck.go.ke
- 9. getting started useful places to learn code: scosit and jlug weekly meetups w3schools.com codecademy.com teamtreehouse.com code.org
- 10. development tools They help you to quickly create, debug, maintainprograms Integrated development environments (IDEs) combine The features of many tools into one package Useful development software: NetBeans Dreamweaver Eclipse Visual Studio Aptana Studio Codeblocks Qt Creator
- 11. <Mobile Application Platforms> This section describes some of the common environments used to develop mobile applications
- 12. android Main application framework: Dalvik. NDK for native code compiled from C or C++ Main programming language: Java What you need: Android SDK developer.android.com
- 13. android The SDK comes with several tools that help you in the development. Create initial projects and manage devices and versions of the SDK adb (android debug bridge)- helps with the interaction of your virtual devices. developer.android.com emulator - for running your apps ddms(dalvik debug monitor)- control emulator features e.g. network latency.
- 14. android Publishing Maximum size for an APK published on Google Play is 50 MB. You can use up to two (2) APK Expansion Files, each up to 2 GB in size, for each APK. developer.android.com play.google.com
- 15. windows phone Developed using C# or VB.NET IDE: Microsoft Visual Studio Silverlight: for event-driven apps XNA: for game driven Silverlight UI: Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft Expression Blend developer.windowsphone.com
- 16. windows phone Publishing Microsoft Marketplace service developer.windowsphone.com windowsphone.com/en-us/store
- 17. Qt Apps Can be used to create mobile and desktop apps Qt is an open source platform initiated by Nokia and Intel Qt code can be compiled to run on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac and Linux. developer.nokia.com/Develop/Qt/
- 18. Qt Apps What you need: Qt SDK It installs all tools you need for creating, testing and debuging. QML - a declarative language for UI defination. Qt Mobility API - provide interface to device data e.g. contacts, location, messages e.t.c developer.nokia.com/Develop/Qt/
- 19. developer.nokia.com/Develop/Qt/ Qt Apps Publishing Nokia’s Ovi Store store.ovi.com/
- 20. @mikekivuva Q&A