Ask The Readers: WP8 App Development? Where do I Start?
by Vikram on July 30, 2012
In about 2 weeks, I get a break for about 2 and half weeks with nothing productive on my agenda. I thought why not learn the basics of app development for windows phone 8 and windows 8? However, I am not sure where to start and this is where I need your help! I don’t have any previous app development experience but I am willing to learn and I can usually pick up things pretty fast. I plan on spending about 8-10 hours a day on this project (I need to keep my brain on my regular medical school schedule or else I will struggle to get back in the groove once classes start again) So I am willing to spend about 50 hours a week on studying app development which is less than what I spend normally studying during the semester but it will keep my brain engaged instead of just being a lazy a$$.
So where do I start? What books, tools, online resources or anything else should I start gathering? Any advice or links to resources would be great. I know I can’t learn complete app development in 2 weeks but at least I can start and build on it. So let me know where I should start.
Category: Ask the readers 7 comments »
July 30th, 2012 at 8:07 pm
this is the perfect website for you: http://www.generationapp.com/
July 30th, 2012 at 8:15 pm
Wow! Thanks. That looks like exactly what I am looking for. Have you used that site before? any thoughts on it?
August 1st, 2012 at 7:56 pm
I’m doing a bit of windows phone prototyping for work, and whilst I know most of the general stuff from earlier exposure, things that I don’t use commonly like Isolated Storage, I go straight there and dig through it and in 5 minutes I have what I need. It is definitely well thought out about how you can build an app from scratch.
Though it does assume you have a little programming knowledge. But aye, they provide examples so a bit of copy/paste, and actually reading the code you copy/paste, will actually get you across the line.
August 6th, 2012 at 12:29 pm
Sorry, our email comment notification system was down and I did not get your comment til now. Hmm thats good do know that it is pretty good explaining stuff. I lied when I said i dont have any programming experience. Back in high school I finished 2nd at a national competition in calculator programming. :) i know i was a nerd. So hopefully I can pick up on this stuff easily too.
August 11th, 2012 at 4:12 am
@Vikram: how did you go with it? i’m delayed at responding too cause i don’t like the notify by email and i just check back every once in a while. have you found it helpful so far?
August 11th, 2012 at 10:31 am
Oh. I have not started yet. I have a final exam on Monday. So after Monday I will start. I will let you know how it goes.
August 20th, 2012 at 6:56 pm
@Vikram: so a week or so in, how has it been going for you? :P