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Title:
Introduction
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Description:
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So, Katherine, we've been working
on this course for a while.
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>> I know, Kunal.
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And it's about to launch so
I'm really excited.
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>> Right.
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It's been a couple of months that
we've been designing this course, and
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I want to be in perfect synch with you.
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>> Okay.
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>> Around who the learner or
the student of this course is.
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>> Yeah.
So I think
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the learner is someone who's
never programmed before.
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>> Wait.
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When you say never,
you mean no lines of code.
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>> Zero.
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>> Zero lines of code.
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>> Yeah.
>> Wow that's going to
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be a tough course for us to design but
it's going to open up the gambit for
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everybody to take this course.
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>> Absolutely.
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I think that's why it's so powerful.
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because at the end of this course,
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I think they should be able to build
a couple of simple Android apps.
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>> Wait, let's backtrack a little bit.
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So, we're saying no lines of code,
no programming experience but
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we're still saying you need a computer
and you need an internet connection.
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>> Yeah, and to have some familiarity
with using a computer and a smart phone.
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>> So you browse the internet let's
say on a smartphone or a computer?
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>> Yeah.
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>> Okay, well let's say this is where
the student is right now, right?
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And this is where a professional
Android developer is, right?
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This is where they're making apps,
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they're making money,
they're changing the world.
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Let's say this is where we will
get them at the end of our course.
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>> I think we can get them to here.
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>> Okay, so in this journey that
the student is taking with us,
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what sort of apps
are they building here?
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>> Yeah, so
the first app is a birthday card app.
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>> Wait, you said first app,
so there is more than one app?
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>> Yeah, so first there's a birthday
card app, where they can make it for
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someone that they love.
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>> I like that.
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People have birthdays.
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Sometimes they even have half birthdays.
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[LAUGH]
>> Yeah, and
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the second app should be
a coffee ordering app.
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>> So you say, I want two cappuccinos,
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and two cappuccinos appear
magically from the phone?
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>> Not quite.
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But it captures what
the user wants to order and
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then it sends it off in an email.
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>> Okay.
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So in this journey that we've been
sort of dreaming up, how long will it
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take the student so they can
budget their time appropriately?
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>> Hopefully, 20, 25 hours.
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>> I think that's about right.
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It'll take a lot of deliberate practice.
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They'll make a couple of fun apps.
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But what they can do is they
can take this 25 hours and
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split this up into 4 or
5 weeks worth of their time.
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>> Yeah, I think that sounds good.
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>> So that's as much about
the course and about us.
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At this point,
I want to ask our students a question.