Sikon Posted April 28, 2021 Member ID: 27340 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 8 Topic Count: 80 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 717 Content Per Day: 0.36 Reputation: 605 Achievement Points: 5463 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 11/03/18 Status: Offline Last Seen: Saturday at 02:11 PM Birthday: 07/11/1980 Device: Windows Share Posted April 28, 2021 I am strongly considering taking on the challenge to learning to code mobile apps as well as web development to support said apps. Does anyone have any experience with mobile app development? If so, what language did you start with? What would be a good place to start as a beginner? At this time I have no intentions of taking courses, other than training videos I can watch at my leisure. I'm looking at this as more of a hobby in my spare time than a career choice. Any direction would be appreciated! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sitting-Duc Posted April 28, 2021 Member ID: 561 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 84 Topic Count: 502 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 5334 Content Per Day: 1.01 Reputation: 4610 Achievement Points: 41339 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 29 Joined: 10/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 03:28 PM Birthday: 04/06/1992 Device: Windows Share Posted April 28, 2021 I did work on a mobile app project back a couple of years. The app wasn't anything special, just a load of forms etc. to allow users to submit data on marine wildlife. However part of the project was about building a mobile capability etc. The stack has changed a little since then as Microsoft bought and open-sourced a load but it was using Xamarin: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/xamarin Language choice for us was C# as that is what the team used. For backend/web apps or APIs I usually go asp net core and host on Azure. Generally I like to keep the stack all Microsoft for ease however the solutions would also host well on AWS etc. I haven't done any mobile development since but still actively work on mobile-first websites etc. Same stack etc. Bootstrap handles keeping things pretty and consistent across the different device sizes. Duc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
jointz Posted April 28, 2021 Member ID: 4476 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 19 Topic Count: 28 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1460 Content Per Day: 0.35 Reputation: 4231 Achievement Points: 18104 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 62 Joined: 12/24/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 03/31/1982 Device: Android Share Posted April 28, 2021 Do we have an app for the xi crew? Or just this website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sitting-Duc Posted April 29, 2021 Member ID: 561 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 84 Topic Count: 502 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 5334 Content Per Day: 1.01 Reputation: 4610 Achievement Points: 41339 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 29 Joined: 10/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 03:28 PM Birthday: 04/06/1992 Device: Windows Share Posted April 29, 2021 22 hours ago, jointz said: Do we have an app for the xi crew? Or just this website Nope and we can't use the app for this site because of the boobs etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
jointz Posted April 29, 2021 Member ID: 4476 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 19 Topic Count: 28 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1460 Content Per Day: 0.35 Reputation: 4231 Achievement Points: 18104 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 62 Joined: 12/24/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 03/31/1982 Device: Android Share Posted April 29, 2021 oh ok. and i love those topics... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Labob Posted April 29, 2021 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8260 Content Per Day: 1.55 Reputation: 5967 Achievement Points: 53574 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Just now Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Windows Share Posted April 29, 2021 Damm boobs always in your face 00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sikon Posted April 30, 2021 Member ID: 27340 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 8 Topic Count: 80 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 717 Content Per Day: 0.36 Reputation: 605 Achievement Points: 5463 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 11/03/18 Status: Offline Last Seen: Saturday at 02:11 PM Birthday: 07/11/1980 Device: Windows Author Share Posted April 30, 2021 That's pretty cool @Sitting-Duc! I've never really tried to learn coding at all. I've thought about it often over the years, just no fallow through. I can read some source code and get the basic idea or what certain strings of code is doing, but actually typing it out myself.. I would be lost. The more I'm looking into it, I'm wondering if I should look into free computer science course videos or just free ball it into some code and figure it out? lol I'm kind of thinking free ball it! Sense i've started some computer science videos and they take it back to the biblics and start talking about binary.. However, I feel like I should start on basic code structure first? IDK jointz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sitting-Duc Posted April 30, 2021 Member ID: 561 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 84 Topic Count: 502 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 5334 Content Per Day: 1.01 Reputation: 4610 Achievement Points: 41339 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 29 Joined: 10/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 03:28 PM Birthday: 04/06/1992 Device: Windows Share Posted April 30, 2021 1 hour ago, Sikon said: That's pretty cool @Sitting-Duc! I've never really tried to learn coding at all. I've thought about it often over the years, just no fallow through. I can read some source code and get the basic idea or what certain strings of code is doing, but actually typing it out myself.. I would be lost. The more I'm looking into it, I'm wondering if I should look into free computer science course videos or just free ball it into some code and figure it out? lol I'm kind of thinking free ball it! Sense i've started some computer science videos and they take it back to the biblics and start talking about binary.. However, I feel like I should start on basic code structure first? IDK Personally my start into programming was gaming and allot of that was XI. I somehow got involved in Crysis server mods; I think it was in looking at the mods for the previous community I was in. We were trying to solve an in-game issue with the mod and it needed some slight scripting changes, it was an easy change but that ease inspired me to look into it more. I then got involved in that modding community and ended up becoming a developer for the mod. XI allowed me to expand into messing with other types of programming and to 'solve' problems with it. My initial code was shit and I remember Steve (Ph4nt0m) telling me about threading and how to instantiate threads so not to lock up the UI etc. I ended up going to university and yes I learned a load of stuff about "data structures and algorithms" whilst there but the true experience and knowledge came from what I have done in XI. That is what I discussed in my first job interview to be a trainee software engineer at the UK MoD, less so the University course. My XI projects have generally been a way for me to learn a new technology/tool/stack and then use that to excel in my professional career. I was lead software engineer of a team (two at one point) responsible for some pretty substantial services and projects for the MoD before I left a couple of years back to start my own company and I now work on a consultancy/contract basis brought in to be an expert in certain topics. So my advice; find a problem you want to solve and give it a shot - choose a language that comes up in Google when you start researching around the problem. Be a polygot developer; I usually am Microsoft stack but have implemented personal, XI and professional solutions in many different languages on many different stacks. Sikon and jointz 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
jointz Posted April 30, 2021 Member ID: 4476 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 19 Topic Count: 28 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1460 Content Per Day: 0.35 Reputation: 4231 Achievement Points: 18104 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 62 Joined: 12/24/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 03/31/1982 Device: Android Share Posted April 30, 2021 See us idiots are good for experience.. good job duc!! And you guys are doing great here. Keep up the good work!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sikon Posted May 22, 2021 Member ID: 27340 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 8 Topic Count: 80 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 717 Content Per Day: 0.36 Reputation: 605 Achievement Points: 5463 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 11/03/18 Status: Offline Last Seen: Saturday at 02:11 PM Birthday: 07/11/1980 Device: Windows Author Share Posted May 22, 2021 (edited) On 4/29/2021 at 11:49 PM, Sitting-Duc said: Personally my start into programming was gaming and allot of that was XI. I somehow got involved in Crysis server mods; I think it was in looking at the mods for the previous community I was in. We were trying to solve an in-game issue with the mod and it needed some slight scripting changes, it was an easy change but that ease inspired me to look into it more. I then got involved in that modding community and ended up becoming a developer for the mod. XI allowed me to expand into messing with other types of programming and to 'solve' problems with it. My initial code was shit and I remember Steve (Ph4nt0m) telling me about threading and how to instantiate threads so not to lock up the UI etc. I ended up going to university and yes I learned a load of stuff about "data structures and algorithms" whilst there but the true experience and knowledge came from what I have done in XI. That is what I discussed in my first job interview to be a trainee software engineer at the UK MoD, less so the University course. My XI projects have generally been a way for me to learn a new technology/tool/stack and then use that to excel in my professional career. I was lead software engineer of a team (two at one point) responsible for some pretty substantial services and projects for the MoD before I left a couple of years back to start my own company and I now work on a consultancy/contract basis brought in to be an expert in certain topics. So my advice; find a problem you want to solve and give it a shot - choose a language that comes up in Google when you start researching around the problem. Be a polygot developer; I usually am Microsoft stack but have implemented personal, XI and professional solutions in many different languages on many different stacks. That's pretty awesome! Kind of crazy how something as simple as playing games with some friends someone mets online could change the direction of one's life/career choices. I've seen it happen with people a lot over the years, rather it be online gaming or just finding things across the internet that peeks one's interests. Then boom, they are into video editing, graphic design, website design, coding or software engineering. Pretty amazing if you think a about it! Edited May 22, 2021 by Sikon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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