Paul Walsh

A great first night

Thanks to all who attended tonight for making it a great first night. The Eventbrite for next week is now live and published on the right hand side of the page.

If you are attending next week just click register and follow the instructions. There is a password that I will send by email.

I will send on instructions for mentors and ninjas (thats the kids are called!) for what to prepare for next Thursday’s session where we will start Scratch programming.

Let me know by email of you have any questions

thanks

Paul

Some Bad News and Some Good News

Bad News

School is back and the summer holidays are over 🙁

Good News

CoderDojo Milltown is also back on Thursday September 4th!

We are bigger than ever this year and kids from 4th, 5th and 6th class of Scoil Bhride Milltown will attend as well as our group from last years 6th class.

The eventbrite link is up and available from the right hand side of the site. The password will be emailed to all who have an email address – ask in school if you dont know the password. Please register if you are attending.

thanks

Paul

Software for Introduction to Android Development

For those doing the Introduction to Android app development There a few
pieces of software to install in advance.

Note some of these are quite large so if you dont do before Thursday its
unlikely you will be able to download on the night. If not dont worry –
most of what we do will be me demoing anyway for Thursday.

1. Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Distributable

Download and install

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14632

2. Oracle Java JDK

Download and install the JDK

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

3. Android Studio (Preview)

Download and install (this is very big – 500Mb)

http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html

With the Android Studio we will be able to launch a demo application from
source code in an emulator on your computer. We will also compile and put
on a real phone to show you how it works.

As Android Programming requires fairly advanced Java knowledge we will not
focus too much on the code but rather intrdouce you to the whole
environment of programming and testing and compiling.