Started with making text adventure games on my TI-83 calc back in freshman year of HS. I was curious as to how games worked and wanted to make my own.
After that, I took a programming class (the first one my HS offered) in Java. It was fun. By the end, I had made a tic tac toe game, a game of hangman, and a couple other smaller projects (was only a semester).
Then, since my school didn't offer any other programming classes, I took an independent study so I could work on learning C++. I didn't get too far with it because there was no structure to it (I used the book and tried to make cool games that often didn't go very far) and I didn't have anyone supervising me that knew C++ or OOP (the guy who sat in the room with me during the study only knew Visual Basic and wasn't a great programmer at all). I did end up making a program to solve limits and basic derivatives of functions for my Calculus II class, though. That was helpful.
From there, I went off to college and started a software engineering degree.
Awesome. Thought about picking up a Kinect when the indie created SDK was coming out, but the official one should be awesome. Can't wait - even if my 360 is red ringed...
Will the browser have full HTML5 support? Can I go to YouTube in it and watch videos without flash? I admittedly don't know much about the Android 3.0 browser.
Android's browser has supported much of HTML5 for years now. Nobody can claim "full" support since HTML5 is a very vague term with a currently changing set of technologies included. I'm not even sure if it's still called HTML5 actually.
Edit: About Youtube: Yes. You can go there and watch the videos just fine. I think you're (transparently) redirected to the YouTube app.
Yeah, but I don't want to have to be moved to the YouTube app. I want to know if I can use the built in browser to watch HTML5 videos. I know I can do it on YouTube with my PC browser if I enable it on my YT account...
By my rough calculations they're hiring 1 person for every 650 applications. That's quite the winnowing process.
If they have two pre-qualifying rounds of CV burning where at each stage they trash 80% of the CVs, then they'd be down to about 26 before even talking to anyone. Now four rounds of interviews where 50% of the people are eliminated and you still have 1.625 people left...
We used to have ridiculous numbers like that at MSFT. If Google is reporting them the same way, they're not counting re-applications and people who are completely unqualified and either hoping for a lottery win or are just satisfying some unemployment requirement.
Seriously, the recruiting folks told me that the vast majority of the "blind submit" resumes that came in via e-mail and website forms were unchanged duplicates of things already in the database.
Something like this is huge if we're ever going to move towards a cloud based OS in the future. I can see why Google would push it so hard. Will be intereting to see how well it does and how much it's adapted.
I agree with you, but the N1 is starting to feel a little dated. It still runs great, but in a few more months, it will be at best a low-mid range phone.
I want a Tegra 2 device really badly. I've been tempted to get the Atrix, but I want to be able to install CyanogenMOD on my phone. Waiting to see the bootloader results. Hopefully it's not as bad as previous Motorola devices... If it is, I guess I wait. But I'm not holding my breath for a developer phone with a Tegra 2 anytime soon.
