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Android Programming for Beginners: Part 1. Weekend Project: Becoming a Linux Expert. Last I wrote up a basic guide to getting started with Linux for people who have no Linux experience.

Weekend Project: Becoming a Linux Expert

Then a few days later, the Linux Foundation hosted a live question-and-answer on Facebook (or "stump the chump", perhaps), and that made me realize I had only scratched the surface. It is a good introduction, but the Linux world extends far beyond a user-friendly general-purpose desktop system. Want to become a Linux expert? Android Programming for Beginners: User Menus.

In our previous Android coding tutorials (part 1, part 2), you set up your dev environment, built a basic app, and then improved it by adding a menu and a second Activity.

Android Programming for Beginners: User Menus

In this tutorial we're going to look at a very handy part of the Android API: ListView, ListActivity, and the associated methods which give you an easy way to show the user a list and then act when they click a list item. Creating a ListView A very common pattern in an Android activity is showing a list of items for the user to select from. The Android API provides the ListView and ListActivity classes to help out with this.

Carrying on with the Countdown app from previous tutorials, we'll list a few sample countdown times for the user to select from to set the timer. If all you want is a List, ListActivity will set your View up for you automatically; no need to write any XML at all. Boundless, the free alternative to textbooks, releases its content under Creative Commons. Jane Park, January 22nd, 2013 Boundless, the company that builds on existing open educational resources to provide free alternatives to traditionally costly college textbooks, has released 18 open textbooks under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA), the same license used by Wikipedia.

Boundless, the free alternative to textbooks, releases its content under Creative Commons

Schools, students and the general public are free to share and remix these textbooks under this license. Mr. Wizard's World - Volume 7 Information Page. Teach yourself programming, part 1. Part 1 of the TYP series.

Teach yourself programming, part 1

Read part 2. Since we’re finally getting in to summer, it’s a good time to think of some summer projects to keep the brain going. If you’ve thought about becoming a programmer, the summer is a great time to start tinkering and learning, so you can use those skills in next year’s OGPC, or even in some of the several robotics competitions! This is the first part in a series of posts for the summer, which should help get anyone off the ground in the programming world. If you’re completely new to programming, check out that last link in the “Book-style sites” section, and also some of the games at the end. Traditional stuff MIT OpenCourseWare’s Introduction to Computer Science and Programming—one of the most useful links here.

Tutorials Book-style sites Videos. Robocode Home. Light-Bot. Helping You Learn Android Development -XDA-University. Tutorial: A 13 Year Old’s Guide to Programming. Free Android Development Tutorials. Free Android Development Tutorials.

Free Android Development Tutorials

How to Build an Android App Part 1: Setting up Eclipse and Android SDK – XDA TV. In this video, Elite Recognized Developer AdamOutler covers several topics which will get you started developing your first Android application.

How to Build an Android App Part 1: Setting up Eclipse and Android SDK – XDA TV

This instructional video covers the entire process of creating and loading a new application onto your device. The video is intended for use by n00bs to get them up to speed, as well as by adept users who may have missed a step or two during SDK installation. Instructional Contents: Downloading Eclipse & SDKUse of Nyan Cat for passing time while downloadingInstalling Eclipse and SDKSetting up SDKIntegrating SDKUsing the SDK in EclipseQuick overview of the IDELoading an App onto android.

Free Social Teaching and Learning Network focused solely on education. The Public School. Zero Tuition College. Unschooling Site News, SandraDodd.com. Lee Stranahan: Unschooling : How Good Morning America Got It All Wrong. I know I'm naïve to expect the mainstream media to cover a subject like "radical unschooling" as anything other than a freak show, but the recent hatchet job that George Stephanopoulos and Good Morning America did on the topic was so hopelessly biased that it'd make Rupert Murdoch blush.

Lee Stranahan: Unschooling : How Good Morning America Got It All Wrong

Unschooling is a type of homeschooling that promotes organic, self-directed learning without the structure of traditional education. My family has unschooled our kids for over a decade. I'm working on a film about the subject called Unschooling: The Movie that explores the subject and includes interviews with people like unschooling advocate Sandra Dodd. One of the reasons I'm making the film is that it's not a topic that a lot of people understand or have experience with. » The Beginner’s Guide to Unschooling. Post written by Leo Babauta.

» The Beginner’s Guide to Unschooling

There’s nothing I get asked about more as a parent than unschooling, and nothing I recommend more to other parents. It’s an educational philosophy that provides for more freedom than any other learning method, and prepares kids for an uncertain and rapidly changing future better than anything else I know. My wife and I unschool four of our kids, and have been for several years. And yet, as powerful as I believe unschooling to be, I’ve never written about it, because the truth is, I certainly don’t have all the answers. No one does. The beauty of unschooling is in the search for the answers. But I’m getting ahead of myself: what is unschooling? Now you can get college credit with Coursera. For the first time a brick and mortar educational institution, Antioch University, will offer Coursera MOOCs (massive open online courses) for credit as part of a bachelor’s degree program.

Now you can get college credit with Coursera

This announcement could be one of the first tremors in a seismic shift hitting higher education. “A year ago, online education was something people would look askance at, as a not completely respectable form of education,” says Daphne Koller, Stanford professor and co-founder of online education site Coursera.”Now it’s something which every institution is figuring out how to use and how quickly.” Antioch will offer local support and facilitation from an instructor wrapped around Coursera MOOCs.”Students get Antioch credits for an Antioch course,” Koller explains “but the Antioch course makes extensive use of these pre-existing, high-quality, on-line materials. It’s like teaching a course from a very rich text-book” Coursera has come along way since its launch a mere nine months ago. Pneumatic potato cannon. Learn Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and English for free. Video School.

Free Music Production Tutorials. Ableton Tutorials, Cubase Tutorials, Logic Pro Tutorials, Reason Tutorials, Music Production Tutorials, DJ Tutorials. Introduction to Music Production. Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society. About the Course This is a course aimed at making you a better designer.

Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society

The course marries theory and practice, as both are valuable in improving design performance. Lectures and readings will lay out the fundamental concepts that underpin design as a human activity. Weekly design challenges test your ability to apply those ideas to solve real problems. The course is deliberately broad - spanning all domains of design, including architecture, graphics, services, apparel, engineered goods, and products. Coursera.