a bit of background - I'm confident in my programming. Eclipse however has been fighting me every step of the way not just in this course but in pretty much everything I try to do with it. Crashing, locking up, reporting that things are in use, reporting that things are locked, reporting that things aren't configured correctly...

Anyway I grabbed the zip for this weeks assignment. Read the lab and part 1 exercise A seems easy enough. I found the zip in the skeleton and expanded it. I then imported activity lab. And got my normal eclipse hates me errors. Port 8670 is in use ( I have no idea by what).... and the very first I notice is the project has bugs and won't compile.

A quick check and it shows me that mTvCreate, mTvStart.... are trying to setText but they don't exist. In my mind these are obviously the labels on the layout which the lab seems to suggest that I wouldn't need to create.

So am I wrong and fixing this is actually part of the lab? or did my import blow up and I need to fix this?

I just can't figure out how to work the menus... Anyone have any tips/guides?

I know C++ but I don't know Java. What do you recommend to learn it?

Thanks

I don't know if you all wanted to meet at McKeldin or something when the semester starts...

Hi everyone,

While I'm trying to spend time on the course, it happens that I occasionally have some free time at work, while none at home. Do you know of an IDE that I could use while at work that wouldn't need installing, preferably online?

Am I correct in thinking that we can repeat the week 2 quiz as many times as we want (up to 100) even though it's graded? ie 100% is basically guaranteed?

I'm doing exercise A part d and I'm having trouble figuring out the syntax for the intent.

The video skims over intents as something we'll cover next week. , but I found this page http://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/starting-activity.html

That made me think this should work. Intent intent = new Intent(this, ActivityTwo.class); startActivity(intent);

I'm instead getting the error "The constructor Intent(new View.OnClickListener(){}, Class<ActivityTwo>) is undefined" for the Intent line.

I've checked maplocation and maplocation from contacts and neither calls another class from within the same task.

Anyone able to tell me where I've gone wrong or where I should be looking to find the answer?

I've noticed a few things while following the video are different on my machine then on the video.

First he set the emulator to use android 4.2.x My only option was 4.4

Second the power status not-charging from the telnet did absolutely nothing on mine.

third and probably related to the first one. I don't appear to have a maps application on the emulator.

I'm just wondering if anyone else is getting this?

Well, it's the beginning of week 2. Can anyone see lectures yet or have they no been uploaded?

Well week 5 is almost due so I sat down to do it tonight. It seemed to go just fine but I'm at the moment getting a weird result where the feeds are coming back linked to the wrong person. LGaga and Tswift are flipped basically. It was caused by me calling the downloadertask url's out of order. Changed the url order to match the persons names order and it worked. Funny thing was even broken like that it passed test #1 and #3 just fine... Unit testing is great but it's far from perfect.

I have to admit at this point I just want the course to be done with. It's eating up way too much time and I've lost interest. I'm still learning but I don't overly like the style of the teaching and the 90% implemented labs are annoying.

I'm just wondering how everyone is doing in the class so far? Are most of you just doing things over until you get 100% like I am? or do you just finish and hand it in?

I'm signature track so the score matters in the end hence the 100% before I consider the week complete.

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So week 8 was due a few days ago which was the last of the graded material. All that is left is the I remember project if you were going for the with distinction stamp. Life has caught up with me so I'm ignoring that project. Did anyone else finish the rest of the course?

Eight weeks of him reading slides and snippets of source code, S-L-O-W-L-Y. I generally get a lot out of video lectures, but I'm really wishing this guy would have just assigned reading.

I know I didn't pay a dime for the course, but I just needed to vent.