Continuing MP0

MP Overview

MP Overview

For this project you’ll be building a simple Android app allowing you to browse and rate courses at the University of Illinois. While this app is not too complicated, it allows us to explore several important concepts:

• Working with data, including serialization to and from JSON
• Designing a user interface and responding to events using asynchronous programming
• Interactions between a client and server over a network using the HTTP protocol

These concepts are key parts of not just Android app development, but the development of any modern application. Note that you’ll be quizzed on some of these ideas, which will reappear in future MP lesson walkthroughs.

So let’s spend some time getting to know the starter code! This will both help you on this checkpoint, and also help you complete future parts of the project. The following screencast provides an overview of some of the main ideas and where to find them in the code.

Logging and App Startup

Logging and App Startup

One of the first things we’ll look at together is what happens when your app starts. Along the way we’ll also show how to log information using Android, similar to System.out.println. And we might just notice a small problem as we go.

Testing

Testing

Next, let’s look at what happens when we test your code, and what to look out for so you can determine what to do.

Grading and Submitting

Grading and Submitting

You submit your code for official grading by pushing to GitHub. Here’s a video that provides an overview of the process.

We have a full description of why and how to use Git available here, which also covers common problems you might encounter when submitting your work.

Your Goal Today

Your Goal Today

On lessons where we focus on the machine project we will not assign a separate homework problem! However, the lesson will usually focus on helping you with a particular part of the MP test suite, and you should finish the lesson by completing that task.

Right now your goal should be to complete MP0 and submit your work to earn full credit! You can do it.

MP0 Scores

MP0 Scores