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Daniel Coveney
1,537 PointsLost following track?
Hi, I've come from completing the Crystal Ball App. I clicked on the next track under which is called "Introduction to Programming".
I've watched the basics and now in this video "http://teamtreehouse.com/library/introduction-to-programming/basics/writing-your-program" I'm lost.
Nowhere does it say or recommend a program to write code in (although i've just found notepad++ as I am a Windows user) and doesn't give a link to a video or show what to do with the html so all we can do is act dumb and pause the video and attempt to copy & write down the code from the html.
As a suggestion I would make the html code as a downloadable text file so we can at least copy and paste even if we don't understand what it is or what its doing.
Maybe I am missing something? or needed to learn a different course first?, Again, nowhere is this shown or mentioned, I, as I presume others are doing are just following the list down after the "Build A Simple Android App".
Any help or suggestions on where I should go next would be very much appreciated.
2 Answers
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,442 PointsIn introduction to programming I believe it was more console based. A lot of the coding the instructor did could be done in a browser that has the console such as Chrome or Mozilla. I also think TTH has a console to offer, I'm not certain though. I think there's a console dive in Development Tools, so you could watch that; though I do believe the instructor does show you how to use use the console in browsers within Introduction to Programming.
Daniel Coveney
1,537 PointsMany thanks for your reply ;) My main problem is there was a huge gap from copying what "Teacher" says in "Building a Simple Android App" to Introduction to programming. Luckily I figured it out but there needs to be a step saying something like "Using notepad on windows (or other programe, including listings like notepad++) copy the downloadable text and name it index.html etc etc. None of that was explained sadly so had to google as much as possible. Also the video says about local host.. i've no idea how to work that out but got passed it by again, googling it and dragging and dropping the html file (after writing out the example code myself and working out where and what to save the file as) into google chrome.
Love treehouse so far, but either these tracks are in the wrong order or need tweaking so users following the android development can easily bring up the missing "Simple Html Code" Jim says about.
Many Thanks again for your reply and hope i'm making some sort of sense! :)