{"id":72,"date":"2014-08-11T03:05:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T03:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/?p=72"},"modified":"2017-03-31T02:43:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T02:43:40","slug":"finally-done-with-lesson-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Finally Done With Lesson One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am finally done with lesson one. I can tell already that the lessons are too long for the brief periods of time I have available to work on them, at least this past week. It has been somewhat frustrating because of that. I need to set aside bigger chunks of time. I wish that I were only paying for when I am actively using Udacity, instead of the clock running all of the time whether I am online using the web site or offline doing something else.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson was not\u00a0<em>too<\/em> frustrating until the end where things got really confusing between when they were using TextViews and when they were using ListViews. It would also help matters a great deal if they would spell out what variable names to use instead of me having to go back to my code and say, &#8220;Oh, I called that a widget when they called that a whatsit.&#8221; Most of the time, our variable names are in sync because we are both using logical names, but sometimes the good-name space is just too large.<\/p>\n<p>And I am fairly certain that &#8220;listview_forecast&#8221; was originally &#8220;list_item_forecast&#8221; in an earlier video. &#8220;listview_forecast&#8221; is the better name, but \u00a0only if you actually assigned it to the ListView earlier instead of &#8220;list_item_forecast&#8221;! On the positive side, I can tell that developer.android.com is going to be my new best friend, along with the excellent book on Android development that I just purchased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am finally done with lesson one. I can tell already that the lessons are too long for the brief periods of time I have available to work on them, at least this past week. It has been somewhat frustrating because of that. I need to set aside bigger chunks of time. I wish that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}