's been a long time! (Yes I left out the It) - Foreword to Layman's Guide to Android Programming

Hey my dear non-existent (and perhaps the lost user that reached here by accident) readers,

I'll be starting a new section of "Guide to Android Programming" page. This shall serve as the foreword (which will be linked to as Foreword when I create the guide).

Why the intention to create a guide? First off, I needed to transfer my knowledge to my interns. Rather than being a one-off effort, I might as well create a guide that they can refer to and look back upon which can also be reused by future potential colleagues/interns/subordinates/minions (BWAHAHAH!!!).

I've thought of creating my own guide for a long time but lacked the reason and motivation to do so. Since most books and guides are cryptic and riddled with terminologies that befuddle the newborn Android infant, often filling useless (useless at the point in time) information in tutorials that trip and waylay the poor programmers, I've decided to throw in a simple and easy guide.

For example, assuming I've creating a guide to Java Programming, here's what you'll see in most tutorials. The most basic would always be the "Hello World" example so let's not talk about that.

"Here's a tutorial to Web Form, now let's throw in various unnecessary and hard to understand (many) lines of programming code to get my point across."

If you're asking me, what is a Java class? I'll give it to you in less than 20 characters. Yes, 20 characters, not words.

public class a {}

That's a working class, but does it do anything? No? Of course. A program does what YOU want. So I'll be teaching how to construct a basic class (depending if you're wanting program or applet) and then the little itty bitty basic stuff which will help you do the stuff YOU want. No crazy words and stuff that you'll need a dictionary by your side.

So with this, enjoy your journey!