Happy Weekend And Let's Start Learning!

[Natasha Murashev]

Hey Ladies!

Happy weekend! A few of you have been asking about the benefits of learning Java, so I asked my developer friend more about it yesterday. And guess what I learned. Apparently, Android apps are build in Java using Eclipse, the exact software we'll be using for this class! While you can build pretty much anything in Java, it's cool to know that after learning it, you'll be able to apply it to something as cool as building Android apps! My new personal goal is to become an Android developer :)

I hope this encourages you all to get started this weekend if you haven't already.

Here are the Suggested Assignments for this week - due Sunday, November 6th: 

• Download and set up Eclipse (the software you will be using): http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs106a/cgi-bin/software/
• Complete watching Lectures 1 and 2 - the first lecture is more about class formalities, so you can probably skip most of it. If you watch it via the "View Now" links instead of YouTube, it'll break it out by sections, so you can skip the more administrative parts of the lectures. 
• Complete Problems 1 and 2 of the first assignment - make sure to scroll all the way down this page to get to it: http://see.stanford.edu/see/materials/icspmcs106a/assignments.aspx. You should do the assignment distributed after lecture 2 (not the lecture 4 one). 

Hope you're as excited as I am!

Natasha

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[Dana Rindal]

I am not sure if someone already shared this resource, but I was just reading about it on TechCrunch and it looks like it just launched!

http://www.codecademy.com

Free and a great way to start to learn coding.