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This is the story of a boy named David. One day, David decided he wanted to make an app, the kind that would run on his phone, an Android device, and his Nexus 7, which he had gotten as a graduation present from a kind uncle. To do this, David would have to learn the Android SDK (Software Development Kit) -- a section of Java. David had taken a class in Java already, so he felt ready to depart on this new journey!

Where did David begin? Well, he had been using the Eclipse IDE in his programming class, and so he set out to download the Android SDK and the ADT plugin. The journey was beginning!

David thought that the only good way to learn a language was directly from the documentation produced by its creators, so he started on developer.android.com/training. He got through a few articles before finding himself stuck! The creators' documentation was too dry and linear for David's ADD personality! What was he to do?

David bought a book: Android for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach, by the Deitel family. This was a plunge for David, who was very resistant to spending money on anything but essentials. (David was a college student.) Nevertheless, David took a deep breath and confirmed the order on Amazon.

The book came in. David made a hobby of reading it. He brought it with him in his backpack and read it in places where he didn't have access to a computer with all the necessary programs. The book became a symbol of David's interest in learning the subject, a phenomenon David had not anticipated.

And so David started to become a coder. David was a physics major, and had never done much with coding before, so it marked the beginning of a new chapter in his life. What was in store? He knew that only time would tell. But time was just space, and space was just energy, and... well, he decided to only talk about coding on this blog from now on.