The Android Playshop (Workshop)
Venue: 4th floor of a building(no elevator).
Yeah, you read that right.
Prerequisites: Java basics and familiarity with the OOP
concept.
What do you expect from an 'Android App Development Workshop'? Well, I thought I would make atleast a
couple of decent apps. Instead I copy pasted the code for a couple of below par
and ‘so-called’ apps. Now, let me describe the guy who conducted this workshop.
- His name is.. umm.. lets assume it to be Bachhan Pandey.
- He has the ability to talk through his nose.
- Takes this ‘e’ thing a bit too seriously. When he says ‘school’, we hear ‘eschool’. Or when he says ‘stores the state’, we hear ‘estores the estate’.
- Always looks for an opportunity to promote his institution.
- Damn confident and straight forward. Yes, that’s true, ask him anything , he has his answer fixed- “You try changing the names of the variable, if it doesn’t work, I don’t know”
- He has a laptop with a processor, which probably was the fastest in the 90’s.
- “IT industry is all about copy pasting”, this is what he thinks.
On the 30th March,
around 30 students reached the forth floor, thinking we would develop some apps
for our phones. On the 31st, most of us felt like jumping off the 4th
floor. Those people expected us to know the basics of Java. Again this
controversial word comes into the picture. Those people actually expected us to
know everything about Java, from exception handling to all the library funtions
used.
According to Bachhan Pandey, it
took him just two hours to get familiar with application development for
android. Past two days, he has just been saying ‘Java is very important’, ’such API’s and
stuff make java the best language’, ’I will give you some discount if you join
my classes’ and things like that. After every thirty minutes he said, “You guys don’t
know Java, I will have to e-skip this”. He said it was impossible for anyone to
teach all these things to FE students in just two days. If he knew this, why
did he conduct the workshop in the first place.
*Last five minutes of the workshop*
“How many people
enjoyed this workshop”, he asked.
*two people raised their hands*
Those two hands symbolized
sarcasam, regret, bitterness and exasperation.
When the registrations were going
on, I tried convincing some of my friends to register for this workshop. Some
did, some did not. My appologies to everyone who got convinced that fateful day.
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