Hi everyone, it's bedtime in New Zealand so I won't start anything complicated for now 
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30 Years ago I did a year of computer science and learned Pascal as part of a course. I haven't touched programming since and just decided recently to have another go at it. I decided that Android apps are the way to go and must admit that I am totally out of touch with all the computer terms though I use a computer a lot for my photography and in my job as an Automotive electrician where I work with various scan tools, a laptop/oscilloscope besides spending a fair amount of time using google to help diagnose weird computer related issues with modern cars.
Much of my photography involves "experiments" including wiring my camera up to an ignition coil to produce explosions, using an SCR to dump 300 volts through a wire from a capacitor to burst a balloon of propane gas or to simply trigger a home made coil gun to blow a hole through a water balloon as I photograph it.
Anyway I'm hoping to learn a new skill in computer programming and perhaps put it into use to help with timing my photographs and explosions besides many other uses.
3 weeks ago I started learning and bought the book "Java programming for Android developers - for dummies" and have been reading through that.
A brief history of my beginning woes - I downloaded the ADT program for mac and found that my older osx didn't allow java so I had to update to Mavericks to be able to use Java. The once that was accomplished I found that ADT didn't work with Mavericks!
So I finally found a way around it by installing Eclipse on its own and then updating the software by installing the Android plug-in for it - now it all works!
Being someone who likes to be able to see the whole picture of how things work before learning tons of information I decided to try and get the basic "hello world" onto my Nexus 7 and found that my mac wouldn't talk to it!
Eventually I found that "android file transfer" could link them together and by copying the .api[?] file directly to the Nexus I could then download "easy installer" and make "Hello world" show on my tablet
So, lots of fun and games to begin with and now I'm hoping to learn more and progress from someone who last wrote a program in Pascal 30 years ago to a modern day Android developer!
So "hello world" from New Zealand!
.30 Years ago I did a year of computer science and learned Pascal as part of a course. I haven't touched programming since and just decided recently to have another go at it. I decided that Android apps are the way to go and must admit that I am totally out of touch with all the computer terms though I use a computer a lot for my photography and in my job as an Automotive electrician where I work with various scan tools, a laptop/oscilloscope besides spending a fair amount of time using google to help diagnose weird computer related issues with modern cars.
Much of my photography involves "experiments" including wiring my camera up to an ignition coil to produce explosions, using an SCR to dump 300 volts through a wire from a capacitor to burst a balloon of propane gas or to simply trigger a home made coil gun to blow a hole through a water balloon as I photograph it.
Anyway I'm hoping to learn a new skill in computer programming and perhaps put it into use to help with timing my photographs and explosions besides many other uses.
3 weeks ago I started learning and bought the book "Java programming for Android developers - for dummies" and have been reading through that.
A brief history of my beginning woes - I downloaded the ADT program for mac and found that my older osx didn't allow java so I had to update to Mavericks to be able to use Java. The once that was accomplished I found that ADT didn't work with Mavericks!
So I finally found a way around it by installing Eclipse on its own and then updating the software by installing the Android plug-in for it - now it all works!
Being someone who likes to be able to see the whole picture of how things work before learning tons of information I decided to try and get the basic "hello world" onto my Nexus 7 and found that my mac wouldn't talk to it!
Eventually I found that "android file transfer" could link them together and by copying the .api[?] file directly to the Nexus I could then download "easy installer" and make "Hello world" show on my tablet
So, lots of fun and games to begin with and now I'm hoping to learn more and progress from someone who last wrote a program in Pascal 30 years ago to a modern day Android developer!
So "hello world" from New Zealand!
