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Our computer lectures are in computer labs so we usually get to do our notes on the computer / follow along the lecturer. Even IT in school was similar, as our computer lessons were in front of the computers.

I never got taught programming in school until I went to college to do an IT course. All we did in school was learn how to use... Word? I don't know, it was so daunting and I was in the bottom set I'm actually pretty jealous that you're learning programming in school

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Schools usually start people out with VB, they did to us too. I enjoy programming, but VB seems to take that fun away. You should see if your school is running Visual Studio and rebel with C++/C# instead, muuuch more enjoyable

Probably got paid by MS to say it. No one would ever want to program in VB. The thing's a nightmare, and as Rosim has said, 'sounds like my parents when they try to be cool in front of my friends'

We programmers are lonely creatures. We need to satisfy our social needs somehow, eh?

Knowledge is easy to come by; it's harder trying to decide what to do xD


I'd recommend learning electronics as you go along. I'm currently messing around with photovoltaics. I think next I'll try developing my own OS with the Raspberry Pi.

Find something you want to do and learn as you go.

Some useful websites for parts/bits&bobs
http://www.rapidonline.com/
http://www.active-robots.com/

Just make sure it's powering at about 4.5-5V±, no higher, and you certainly don't want to go lower.
I use my pi for a media centre too, not really much I can think of doing with mine as I also have an Arduino. I prefer using Arduino boards for electrical stuff as if you blow the chip, it's cheaper to replace as you can just take it out and buy a new one. Unfortunately if you blow the Pi, you have to buy the whole thing again.
Although I wouldn't mind having another pi (even though our university is giving out free ones, it's only started this year to the freshers) to do some crazy networking stuff.

£30 cheaper!? I personally would have just bought a fresh new one for the 30gbp difference. (Also didn't know that you were British? )

At least you got a free iPad! All we get is a free raspberry pi...

I tend to stay away from it for addictive reasons. Will be sure to get the name around once it's complete heh.

I've announced my new app and revealed some screenshots about on it my website: http://www.harrk.com/blog/post/friday-update-new-project-japanese-revision-app
It's only been one week roughly since I started work on it though

It's a Japanese revision app that I hope to get released before Summer's end, but judging from how I want to add mini-games to the app then it could get delayed. Usually I work with LibGDX to build games with and just skip the boring Android XML jibba-jabba, so this is a new turn for me and hopefully I can get LibGDX merged in later for the mini-games.

Really need to work on my website further at some point. It's built on Drupal 6 as I started building my website before we moved over to developing with Drupal 7 - which is faaaaar better and module developers are no longer developing for 6.

It's all good but I really hope you can get some people to take up the offer. You're putting a lot of work in and I'm checking things out every now and then. Sadly I don't have a lot of followers on Twitter or anything to direct them all to you xD (I should really start using Twitter more...) I enjoyed doing your exercises in my head, even if I had to pretend to not know the answers I'm looking forward to doing a few exercises/challenges once the bar rises.

Keep it up, Rosim!

Same. Not sure if I should get the new Nexus 7 - would definitely be awesome! At the very least I'm going to wait to see if they discount the 2012 model. Otherwise I'm going getting it when I hit my targets on Google Play

And you seriously have a school-monitored iPad? o.o Root that thing xD (or whatever it is you do on iPads - Jailbreak?)

Defrauding the fraudster. D:

Jellybean 4.3 is launching out now on Nexus devices, with it comes multiple user support and Open GL ES 3.0.

And something Google didn't show off on their live stream yesterday: New Emojis!

I teach you program. Give me your bank account then I teach you.