Yes, you can learn the rudiments of programming on an android device.
You may need these:
1. A terminal emulator (termux is great for android).
2. A programming language compiler (like gcc/g++) or for others like (python or php runtime environments).
3. A good book on introduction to programming, maybe with python or with c. (A hard copy book is strongly advised, to free up the phone for the coding).
4. If you can get hold of an external Bluetooth keyboard, you would really enjoy the whole experience.
5. Then, invest a little time playing around with all of these. Don't just hide or give up when faced with a challenge

Best of luck, you would enjoy yourself.

Ajibel: If u have a cool idea and a small buh great team, ur good to go. It's an area not fully tapped by Nigerian developers. For me i jus dey write pygames for fun until i meet some serious people n more importantly become serious with it

let's connect ###(kennbox@yahoo.com)###

You can Learn Python.

Python programming is relatively beginner friendly, also it's a robust and featured language that you can do almost anything with.

If, you can, go through these tutorials

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

Excellent for beginners

Cheers!

Howdy people,

Well,
I basically use:
Linux(mainly)/Win32
Eclipse
GCC/G++/MinGW + GDB
CMAKE
and UnitTest (occasionally)

for UI/Crossplatform related apps, I use QT
www.qt.nokia.com

also Heavily uses BoostC++
www.boost.org

well, for a beginner, I would advice GCC/G++ with any nice syntax highlighting capable Editor (like gEdit)

Keep Coding,

This is so nice,
Keep it up

Hi Guys

@worldbest
I totally agree with moving forward.

I think we could host something now (using any of the free code hosting facilities, sourceforge or even google code)

As for my own storyline, Here it goes.

Big Picture Summary:
In a far away kingdom in Umueze, a child is born,His grows up and will eventually liberate his kingdom from the core forces of terror.

Chapters:
1.
Primary Characters
a. Aziza (the Warrior still a young guy about 12 yrs old)
b. Udoji (His father, a farmer who hates hunting and disapproves hunting for his boy)
c. Ogu (Grandfather of Aziza, Most Respected hunter in the village, but retired)
d. Mma (Azziza’s Sister. Really beautiful)
e. Hunters
i. Obiadada
ii. Odogwu
iii. Akabo
iv. Indiama
v. Asukwor
These Hunters hunt periodically in the forests. lead by Amandi the strong one.
GODS

Chi- (personal guardian for each characters)
Chiaza (guardian for Aziza).
Nwangele leader of the Chi gods

Level One:
Game Starts With this Story.
In the kingdom of Umueze, the people live happy lives ,
the Ezinano festivity is just around the corner .
The gods of the land are looking for a worthy one to use for their mission.
The villagers are preparing themselves for possible selection by the gods.

Scene 1.
Aziza suddenly finds himself in a cave (3d maze e.g caverunner3d first person style), He wanders about in the cave, he discovers that the cave contains paintings on the walls that tell a little history about his village.
He is even amazed to discover that the painting contain traces his own particular family past and future.
he tries to get out of the cave, but cannot as all the cave exits are blocked buy powerful enchantments.
He then realizes that he would have learnt some enchantments from his grandfather Ogu.
He Wanders about in the cave and discovers the beautiful scence in it.
after he gets to a particular point in the cave, he hears a familiar song , and (Chiaza son of Nwangele) appears to him, (chiaza looks more like casper (Ghost busters ) levitates in the air with white radiance) and leads him (Aziza follows behind) to an exit point.
At the point of Exit, Aziza wakes up and discovers that he has been dreaming.
Mission for this Level:
1. Wander About in the cave
2. Read all the markings on the cave wall
3. Find Chiaza.

Music:
Any Common (Ogene) would Do with 3d sound effects.

Precautionary Suggestions
This story as it is may not be built to have all the flash and effizzy and normal modern 3d game flunts.
I say we should just pull out a slight demo of it that will convince each one of Us that we now have a working community.
For theTechnical Specifications of this, we could select:
Game Engine: (ORGE, Panda, 3impact), But I would prefer if we use no engine at all and just test run with simple OPENGL or even SDL, then later select an engine
Language:
Main C++
Support C, Python

Modelers:
Any Low Polygon Modeler

Particle System /Collison:
We will have to come up with simplistic particle system and a collision detection and response.
Rendering:
OPENGL
Sound/Music:
OPENAL
Development Platform:
Linux box with all the stuff. (That’s what I use Sha! )
Windows Box.
Code Control:
Git. (requires little getting used to.)

If we start small we can grow to meet up with the world.
if we start heavy, we might take over the world (or fall out a.k.a abandoning the project)

Totus Tuus
Kennbox

Wow!
Great Contributions guys.

I think a simple story that will provide the opportunity for our team to fix it's base (define it's mode of operation) is what we need.
I buy the Idea of a 3d Maze walk around (Doom Style). But for first time sake, we could remove shooting of objects and add an interesting puzzle instead. e.g finding a key to open a portal or something, also, we could re modify the maze to reflect our local environment (possibly inside a cave), also with the use of music and speech that reflects who we are.

This as simple as it seems would be enough to test the team. As it involves almost all aspects of GD. I would say Let's give it a shot.
WE would need some thing though.
1. Collaboration Point (sourceforge.net might be usefull here)
2. Repository (a simple statement file is enough to start)
3. Development tool set (Game engine choice, Platform Choice e.t.c)

plus more.

keep em coming.

Wow!

Name: Akposionu Kenneth
Email: kennbox@yahoo.com
Phone: +2348062842970
Skills: C++ (Intermediate++),
Game Development Theory 2D/3D ( Game Engines c/c++) (Intermediate),
Python (Intermediate),
Mathematics/Computational Graphics (8/10),
Game Physics (7/10),
Particle Systems (6/10),
Graphic Character Modelling/Texture (3/10),
Game Sound/Music (2/10),
Game Plan/Scene/Story/Game Play Design (3/10),


I love this Idea.
I humbly suggest that we start something, no matter how small, a community thing.
And Probably Host some code even if it is not too functional and make this code available via a code control system maybe GIT or CVS. (git preferably)

,

My peoples,
E don reach time wey we, as origina Niaja
peoples go stop to dey use abreviations like LoL, LMAO, ROTFLMAO, BRB,
WAS, etc etc. When we fit dey use abbreviation for our own exceptional
street lingua.
why?

1. your at work and your chattin, no amount of spyware and things go bother
you, u go still fit yab your boss NS(nothin spoil) whilst u still dey
answer the mugu YB (Yes Boss).

2. Since our slangs are non-tribal, who knows, maybe this will further
foster the bond one a ONE NAIJA, especially since its written and thus
there's no chance of Danjuma pronouncing anything hilariously.

3. Hey, why not, I'm sure it'll be fun learnin and more fun
indoctrinating others too.NLT (I shant translate this).It's a hell of Lingua.

So peoples, LGT!

1. LWKM - Laugh wan kill me
2. LWKMD - Laugh wan kill me die
3. MIDG - make i dey go
4. WGYL - we go yarn later
5. IGA - I gbadun am
6. ICS - I can't shout
7. DJM - Don't jealous me
8. WBDM - Who born d maga
9. UDC - U de craze
10. NUS - Na u sabi
11. WSU - who send u
12. OSABZ - over sabi
13. ITK - I too know
14. WDH - wetin dey happen
15. NDH - nutin dey happen
16. FMJ - free me jo
17. BBP - bad bele people
18. HUD - how u dey
19. WKP - waka pass
20. BBG - baby girl
21. KKL - Kokolette
22. MML - mamalette
23 GFF- Gbono fe le fe le (e.g., she GFF)
24. NTT - Na true talk
25. IKU - It koncain u?
26. NDM - no dull me
27. LGT - let's goo there
28. IFSA - I for slap am
29. IGDO - I go die o
30. YB - Yess boss
31. NLT - No long thing
32. 2GB - 2 gbaski (e.g., the song 2GB!)
33. CWJ - carry waka jorh
34. WBYO - wetin be your own
35. U2D - U 2 do
36. U2DV - U 2 dey vex
37. MKG - maka gini?
38. WSDP - who send dem papa
39. INS - i no send
40. INFS - i no fit shout
41. WWY - who wan yarn
42. NBST - no be small thing
43. NWO - na wah oooooo
44. NMA - no mind am
45. MIHW - make i hear word
46. NBL - no be lie
47. NB? - na beans?
48 wd - wetin dey
49. UNGKM - u no go kill me
50. o2s - omo 2 sexy

Culled from a friend,

Well, I think it's a "learnable" Talent

Ave, Maria!!!!!!

Any members of the CONFRATERNITY of the MOST HOLY ROSARY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY in the House?

Game Programming is a really interesting way to learn programming from the very roots to pro level. Also to put to good use all the seemingly not so important algebra learnt in colleges, especially matrices and linear programming.

Well done guys

I 'lld post some game programming resouce when I'm more chanced.
Cheers!

Thanks Kobojunkie

Where this proposed framework is to be used is in a university environment. The server is meant to accept multiple client calls and respond to each request. (Say Students requesting for result detials).

If say 500 requests come in, the server program should be able to fork out processes or threads or any other means of handling the requests without failure or leaks.

The message transport protocol could be (TCP/IP) Soap with wsdl or just plain xml transfers.

Again, anyone with knowlegde on an already existing similar (Open Source) framework would be in a helpful position

mainly network based distributed apps (service oriented) usually in a community where many users are expected to connect to the central server and retrieve small chunks of vital info regularly.

Connecting clients could be via (web services).

The app should be relatively fast and run on not so powerfull hardware. Also, it's to run off opensource cross-p tools with appriciable performance. lean machine performace is required.

Hi Guys. Any Ideas on how to start developing a soap based multi-threaded c++ server framework, to be used in n-tier apps? from design to finish, using oss tools (Boost, Apache, Lighttpd, gsoap, axis , and many more).

You Can Start programming C++ by deciding to go open source tools
You can use the MING C/C++ tools with eclipse CDT (if you already have some experirnce)
To really start yourself I advice you to go for DEVC++ www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

You can Get a whole lot GUI Libraries for C++. Most of which are cross-platform and quite fast.
A Common One would be Trolltech QT which is really somthing.

It's not just a GUI Library, but a collection of Very good utilities attached.
It has an opensource option www.qtsoftware.com

Also C++ has a huge library base.
See Boost.

Cheers! n Good Luck

All Ye Soludo Haters (People With Very Short Memory) Shebi una dey show una self?

Hello! Great Nairalanders.
Would'nt it be great to start a 3D game project that is naija based? ( I mean with Nigerian themes).
I mean, Guys look we have the resources (cool c++ programmers, OSS Game engines like (OGRE), very nice graphics designers/artists, and hopefully good sound developers).
Let's reason and see what can be done. (The financial prospects can be quite huge u know).

Cheers Everyone Merry Xmas and a very happy new year celebs,

Well done Guys For Living Up to Your Faith. you Catholics are really Lucky O! You Have such wonderful practices e.g Psalter of Jesus and Mary (what you call the rosary), Direct reconcilation with God (what you call sacrament of penance or confession), and so much more that can not all be said. Keep Living to Your Faith. Glory To JESUS Honour to MARY.

A nice Topic u've got there. From my perspective (game programmer's) I think you are either required to develop a game or an game engine (software used for creating a game).
I could help you if you want.

Reach out at kennbox@gmail.com
08052502227

Please Anyone who knows where to get A magnetic stripe card reader (not encoder) that can easily be interfaced to a computer and read from by a program wriiten in a common language. That is the reader should have an API or SDK

Yea
I could Help. What exactly do u want?

Any One Who knows the basic Hardware requirement for a server?
I am considering setting a simple web server at home to at least handle not more 50,000 concurrent connections at once.
Please is there any one who can give details for the type of hard ware I need
ThankX
KennboX
Strictly Nigerian.

Php versus cold fusion Oh My God!!!
What Comparision?
PhP is a world leader in the realm of webserver scripting. ColdFusion is nice I know, but I think Php is superior from the following reasons.
- PhP is OSS ( Open source software). developed by the universe and maintained by pros.
- PhP is lingua franca when it comes to LAMP (Linux apache mysql and PHP).
- PHP is easy to use as transition from a previous programming languauge like c or c++ or java is easy. Just a couple of hours
- apache installers of today comes with PhP pre configured.
- Not just a script, PHP could be used as a full blown programming language

and above all PHP is entirely FREE!!!!! with Source code LIVE!!!!
PHP has a huge user base support ( tutorials, books, e-books , )
Extremly cheap PHP host, alot of em are free self!
in Short PHP na you biko?
Kennbox
Strictly Nigerian