Hi XDApeeps,
I've been a proud member and developer of XDA for some time now and decided to share something I do in my spare time other then ROM development with you all for your entertainment.
I'm a beatboxer and have been doing it for 6 years now. What first began with my friend showing me this amazing talent of other well known beatboxers on his MP3 player became a skill I also acquired over time. I am self taught, I did not have the aid of lessons, tutorials or friends that could beatbox to learn from; all accomplished and learnt purely from listening, much practise and a lot of dedication.
Anyway, rather then blabblering on you can find my very first youtube video below which I have just uploaded as my friends and family insisted I made this available for all to hear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2dyvoaWd44&context=C372e8b3ADOEgsToPDskIV074eMBmIPIN7aTG3XJFU
Hope you enjoy!
Best Regards,
ST1Cl<^^aN
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Just wondering how all you experienced developers on here started out. I know you have probably been asked many times before but I am genuinely interested.
I am by no means any sort of developer. I first came to this site about two years ago when I first learned of rooting. Prior to that I had no knowledge whatsoever of developing or programming.
However I cant keep off here. Is it something that can be self taught. I would really love to delve into this so that I can start to have a little input into what goes on here and even if its just testing at least I could maybe be of help to someone. I have picked up little bits on how things work but my main question is where would be a good place to start self teaching??? It is becoming somewhat of an interest for me.
Any pointers would be hugely appreciated.
Thanks
If it's apps your interested in then AdamOutler has recently done a great video/article combo which would get you started. Check the portal / youtube channel....
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I suppose anything really just to get a basic understanding to start with. I would love eventually to be able to create/modify custom roms ect, but yeah thanks for the pointer.
hammoliam said:
I suppose anything really just to get a basic understanding to start with. I would love eventually to be able to create/modify custom roms ect, but yeah thanks for the pointer.
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Well for roms, check if your device is supported by Dsixdas kitchen, if so that's a great place to start tinkering...
If you want to really start making changes to things though your going to need to learn to code to some extent...
Read and search, read and search...
Good luck
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If you want a great beginning developer environment, wp7 is the easiest and most user friendly one to dive into.
I taught myself python with old boxed up books from the back rooms of my high school library. Didn't have a computer and did all my work on notebook paper. My first language. So, yeah, you can teach yourself anything.
I'm reading this right now.
http://www.amazon.com/Communications-Electronic-Warfare-Adrian-Graham/dp/0470688718
Has tons of practical applications.
Might get a kick out of what I'm reading right now:
Communications, Radar and Electronic Warfare
Frontiers in Antennas: Next Generation Design and Engineering
Advances in Cryptology 2011
Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools
Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason
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I taught myself python with old boxed up books from the back rooms of my high school library. Didn't have a computer and did all my work on notebook paper. My first language. So, yeah, you can teach yourself anything.
I'm reading this right now.
http://www.amazon.com/Communications-Electronic-Warfare-Adrian-Graham/dp/0470688718
Has tons of practical applications.
Might get a kick out of what I'm reading right now:
Communications, Radar and Electronic Warfare
Frontiers in Antennas: Next Generation Design and Engineering
Advances in Cryptology 2011
Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools
Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason
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Well i'm done with the list and ready to take over local frequencies with my own propaganda. read, play good music on pirated radio
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Nowhere near an experienced developer, but with a couple of apps and a ROM WIP, the only thing that taught me was xda-tv
Learning to me is just when somebody puts a puzzle in front of you with no clues or guidelines. But you are surrounded by 50k people that you may ask questions (xda).
I just keep trying to solve the puzzle and if I really don't get something I just ask xda.
That's just how I learn. Its how I've always learn. Just dive into it and rip it apart. Think as logically as possible and listen to some cool dub step while doing so for extra learning points.
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So, it looks like I completely forgot to do this, oops.
I'm Jordan. I generally do the weekly (or semiweekly) news recaps for the XDA Portal, but I got my start on YouTube with my other channel, http://youtube.com/thisweekinlinux, where I talked about Linux news, created screencast-style tutorials, and reviewed Linux distributions.
I've recently relaunched my YouTube "career" by creating a new channel, http://youtube.com/twildottv, where I'll be talking about not only Linux, but Android, hardware, software, and just geeky topics in general. Feel free to subscribe if you like my content!
I'm around pretty regularly, so feel free to ask me whatever you like!
UPDATE: As of this past weekend, I'm also running a gaming channel on YouTube, http://youtube.com/twilplays, where I'll be doing gaming commentary on all sorts of different platforms, and hopefully doing some tabletop gaming videos as well in the future. Check that out, if you're interested!
JordanKeyes said:
So, it looks like I completely forgot to do this, oops.
I'm Jordan. I generally do the weekly (or semiweekly) news recaps for the XDA Portal, but I got my start on YouTube with my other channel, http://youtube.com/thisweekinlinux, where I talked about Linux news, created screencast-style tutorials, and reviewed Linux distributions.
I've recently relaunched my YouTube "career" by creating a new channel, http://youtube.com/twildottv, where I'll be talking about not only Linux, but Android, hardware, software, and just geeky topics in general. Feel free to subscribe if you like my content!
I'm around pretty regularly, so feel free to ask me whatever you like!
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Hey Jordan! I've been watching your content on your very first channel ThisWeekInLinux on YouTube, and it was amazing and cool then, and still is now, but better and with the start of your new career with XDA (I'm jealous ), you can ONLY get better. So keep it up, sir! Good luck!
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Hey Jordan! I've been watching your content on your very first channel ThisWeekInLinux on YouTube, and it was amazing and cool then, and still is now, but better and with the start of your new career with XDA (I'm jealous ), you can ONLY get better. So keep it up, sir! Good luck!
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Thanks so much! I'm definitely enjoying my time here at XDA, and learning a lot!
Love your videos bro, I actually watch them as soon as they come out. I appreciate the business-like approach and professionalism that comes with good recording equipment! I wasn't a big fan of the jackassery and all-around goofiness that was borderline pompous from previous hosts. You rock dude!
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Love your videos bro, I actually watch them as soon as they come out. I appreciate the business-like approach and professionalism that comes with good recording equipment! I wasn't a big fan of the jackassery and all-around goofiness that was borderline pompous from previous hosts. You rock dude!
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Thanks so much for your wonderful comments!
I actually liked the previous hosts as well. They were a large part of the reason I wanted to be a on XDA TV in the first place. I have to thank them for the foundation they helped build for the channel, and I hope that I can continue to do it justice in the coming days/weeks/months/whatever until people get tired of watching me.
You are one awsome host!!!! I have a little more info every time I watch your videos.........like the Molecular structure of Caffeine
Love your videos Jordan
I think we need some more from you on the XDA channel too, share the love to more viewers
Thanks so much, csoulr666 and Quinny899!
More on the XDA channel? What did you have in mind?
JordanKeyes said:
Thanks so much, csoulr666 and Quinny899!
More on the XDA channel? What did you have in mind?
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Maybe some of your personal device favorite apps, and tweaks, possibly favorite roms. I have a feeling not too many though, people may dislike the idea
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Finally a Jordan thread. your videos are awesome man. Keep it up.
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Jordan - your videos on installing Arch Linux pretty much made me a full time linux user. Glad you're on-board with XDA!
Hey Jordan, you should also start singing again, I watch those videos, and they were amazing, so it would be great if you could start those again Also, I'm a young teen and I'd really appreciate it if you could check out my guide here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1810282) and maybe give me some pointers? Thank you so much and keep up the exceptional work!
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like your videos. keep on doing great videos
Especially liking your gaming videos, in terms of your skin issue, are you uploading it to your profile page on minecraft.net? It might just be that the servers are b******g out again
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Especially liking your gaming videos, in terms of your skin issue, are you uploading it to your profile page on minecraft.net? It might just be that the servers are b******g out again
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Thanks, Quinny! I was trying to upload it to the minecraft.net profile page, yes. Tried just a downloaded one from one of the referenced minecraft skins sites, and then one that I edited myself, and no dice either time. I also went through and did the migration to the Mojang account thing, and tried uploading afterward. No luck.
Definitely seems that the servers are just having issues. I'll try again later today and see if it works.
Jordan, since I see you are a linux guy, could you please do a video about NANDROID for the HTC Touch HD (WinMo phone) which is on this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1914723 ??
Maybe you could talk a little bit about the ROM and possibly help on our biggest problem to make this ROM a daily driver: Wifi. The problem is kernel related, and all functions work on the SD builds, which run by executing Handheld Reverse Engineering Tool (or HaRET). Of course, with a NAND ROM, we would boot up Linux right away!
I know it's Gingerbread only, and the kernel is only a .27, but everyone is waiting for a fully functional ROM for this device. Maybe later we could upgrade kernel and, who knows, maybe moving to ICS.
I'm not asking for a whole new video about this, just asking you to talk about it when you report the news (which I think is every week).
Thank you for reading,
mfsr98
I came across this site while looking at MITs open courseware site to start learning programming so hopefully one day I can be like all the awesome devs we have here.
Anyways a few universities sponsor this site, MIT and Harvard are both having intro to computer science classes, not sure which will be better. MIT is all python while Harvard is a mix and also seems to cover more topics but probably to a lesser extent. So I'm guessing with MIT you'll learn python pretty well while in Harvard's you get the basics of more languages and more areas. At least from my impression. So I'll probably try both if it isn't too much.
Registration is fast and easy, you get a certificate if you do well enough which might be useful.
Edx.org
I don't really understand why the other classes seem so complex and require pre-reqs, hopefully they get some more courses because this is a great idea especially for those who don't have access to this kind of education.
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I came across this site while looking at MITs open courseware site to start learning programming so hopefully one day I can be like all the awesome devs we have here.
Anyways a few universities sponsor this site, MIT and Harvard are both having intro to computer science classes, not sure which will be better. MIT is all python while Harvard is a mix and also seems to cover more topics but probably to a lesser extent. So I'm guessing with MIT you'll learn python pretty well while in Harvard's you get the basics of more languages and more areas. At least from my impression. So I'll probably try both if it isn't too much.
Registration is fast and easy, you get a certificate if you do well enough which might be useful.
Edx.org
I don't really understand why the other classes seem so complex and require pre-reqs, hopefully they get some more courses because this is a great idea especially for those who don't have access to this kind of education.
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I just saw your post, checked out the site, and decided to join. This is really awesome. Thank you for finding out about it. So which classes do you plan on trying? I'm looking at possibly doing two, but with lack of time I might only do one. If you want we can take one together and help each other other, and I can teach you the basics of android development minus most f the coding.
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I just saw your post, checked out the site, and decided to join. This is really awesome. Thank you for finding out about it. So which classes do you plan on trying? I'm looking at possibly doing two, but with lack of time I might only do one. If you want we can take one together and help each other other, and I can teach you the basics of android development minus most f the coding.
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Sweet, I'm very interested in android dev, not learning programing is a big regret, did take a c++ class in college though.
The best way to do free online courses is to have a study partner or group I think, otherwise I might get behind one or two weeks then just say eff it since it was free.
I was definitely going to do the MIT comp sci one since I watched a few of the 2011 lectures from the OCW site. They are pretty lenient from what I remember reading so it might be possible to take two courses, at least take one after the other, they're open for almost a whole year.
If I take a second one it will be Harvard's comp sci, which may sound redunant but the courses are designed differently. After learning some more math I'll take the circuits class and the AI because both would be sweet and the certificates would be a great start for masters in comp sci.
What class were you looking at? Some material is already up to look at.
This is pretty cool :thumbup:
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Hello everyone. Just gained the interest to learn coding especially Java and I wanted to ask are there any available Java online tutorial for a beginner ? I don't have any IT related knowledge as I'm from management course.
Hey there!
Are you into java or anything else can be considered as well?
For instance, when I was a newbie https://codegym.cc/ became helpful. You may have a look.
At the moment I'm learning python and it's a new challenge.
Whenever I need to learn a language or brush up long forgotten skills, I check the Udemy site. They have some reasonably prices courses on a range of subjects. Look out for their special discount weeks in case you plan to take up any course.
You can also find a lot of videos on YouTube