Friday, March 30, 2018

Retirement job: programmer

I am going to write phone apps.  Starting now.

My T530 running Kubuntu 17.10 is able to run an Android emulator as a virtual machine in some mode called KVM.  Man, in my day KVM meant something else.  Anyways, I have to do a lot of rigamarole to enable this virtualization, starting with my BIOS.  I have to wait for the Android SDK to finish downloading before I can get into the BIOS.   Instructions are bookmarked in my Konqueror browser.  (these are notes to self).

I should probably go download XCode to the Mac, too.  And find out how to get an Apple Developer account for student use for free.
I can use a LESS account for free but I need the 9digit Dun number for LESS.  I made an Apple id for this too, it is my LESS email with the iconic password. -c

Ok I have XCode already.  I don't need a dev account to write an app, just to publish an app.  So that can wait.

XCode, Cocoa, Objective C, C#.  I think Objective C = C#.  Luckily for me, Objective C is C plus some object-oriented stuff, much like C++ is C plus some different object oriented stuff.  Xcode is the IDE.  Cocoa is what?  I don't have a category in my brain for Cocoa.  It is an API but what has that got to do with anything?

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