Friday 15 May 2015

I had learnt quite a lot of x code this week and I am very satisfied with my progress. During this week, the major things I learnt include: 

• How to read and the basics of writing x code
• How to use x code 6
• How to handle user interactions
• How to display images
• How to play sounds 
• How to save data
• How to handle multiple orientations 

These are the major things that I learnt. I am also jotting down some important notes in a notebook so that I can easily refer to it when I am making the app. Until now, everything is going on smoothly and I am enjoying this process. 

I have not faced many challenged except for time constraints and the fact that I have to refer to many tutorials in order to completely understand what is being taught. This is because some of the tutorials use a lot of complex language which I cannot comprehend because I am very new to coding. This is why I have to visit many websites and watch many tutorials to actually understand everything. Nevertheless, the courses that I am taking explain everything in a very good manner which helps me understand everything in once. Time constraints is another challenge that I am currently facing because this whole week I had dedicated to watching the video tutorials and teaching myself through the courses. 

However, I have not been as successful in this as I though I would because I had exams the whole week and I had very less time to spare. So I have learnt all the basics that I needed and am planning to start creating the app tomorrow. The mac parallel will be installed onto my laptop tonight. There was a way in which I could have avoided this situation by starting to watch the videos and do the course much earlier so that I would have been much more prepared than I am, by now. This a lesson that I learnt today and will never repeat again. 

But I will start creating the app tomorrow and hopefully not face much challenges with the parallel because many people have warned me about my laptop becoming much slower and the chance of it crashing. Hopefully, the process will go on smoothly without facing such major challenges. Below are the screenshots that show my progress and what I have learnt until now: