[chbot] Starting point for Smartphone / Bluetooth / uP project

[Mark Beckett]

Mark
I reached out to a Candian who does smartphone apps (turns out more of 
the i thing)
He suggeste this

For just straight Android, I think I started with a For Dummies book 
from the Library. But I bet there's lots of tutorials on the Android 
developer site too: http://developer.android.com/index.html


Cheers
Mark


Helmut Walle wrote:
> On 21/09/13 13:22, Mark Atherton wrote:
>> [...]
>> udemy looks interesting, but how they can offer 60 mins support for a 
>> US$19 course is beyond me
>>
>> almost looks too good, but of course I haven't seen the class work 
>> yet...
>>
> [...]
>
> Yes, I haven't seen this specific course either but have seen some of 
> the materials from another udemy course on Android development that 
> made a very decent impression (that one cost more than $ 19, but still 
> clearly under $ 100). Regarding the 60 minutes support, I would expect 
> that most people just want to get on with it and therefore aren't keen 
> on wasting an hour with support if they are already doing just fine, 
> and therefore don't take them up on the support offer. The pricing is 
> probably based on the idea that the courses are online, so that 
> teachers get significant revenue out of the potentially large number 
> of participants, as opposed to the hundreds of $ you would have to pay 
> for a "live classroom" course presenting exactly the same content. And 
> udemy only is a platform - they are not developing the content, but 
> are just providing the technical vehicle. And then there are 
> participant reviews to rate customer value. There will always be some 
> risk in it for the first participants of a course, but it looks like a 
> pretty effective concept...
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Helmut.
>
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