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Cell Phone Programming Classes

hey guys,
i've been looking online this morning for classes where i can learn how to do cell phone programming and modification. i haven't had much luck though. most of the results either bring me back to XDA or a similar website, or they take me to a site that is just trying to sell me something that is cell phone or computer related. so i guess my question is: what exactly is this field or line of work called? i've been looking under computer programming, cell phone programming, cell phone modification, smart phone programming, and smart phone modification, all with "classes" at the end, of course. can someone help me out with this? i know it probably sounds like a dumb question, but i'm just having no luck bring back any "course related" results in my search. like i said, it just produces results for websites like this one, o retail websites. i'd love to get into this field of work. i have been customizing my phone (HTC Tilt/Kaiser/Tytn, etc) which i have an extra one of to test on thanks to my lovely wife, and i have been enjoying it very much. trying new ROMs, making some feeble attempts at cooking ROMs, and checking out all the software that is available for my phone. i have been enjoying it so much that i would like to take some courses on the subject and start a carreer in this field! my wife can't seem to drag me away from the computer, and when she does, i've got my phone. we figure that if i like it this much, i should take some courses and get paid to do this kind of stuff 8 hours a day. then it wouldn't take up quite so much time at home. anyway, i'm rambling now, so if anyone could give me some more ideas on what exactly to search for or what this line of work is called, it would aid me in trying to find a place locally that offers some classes on the subject. thank you in advance for any help that you folks can provide me with. by the way, i'm in the DFW (TX, US) area, if any local folks happen to be reading and could point me in the right direction. for the moment, i'm interested in campus classes or online classes, doesn't make much difference at the moment. i would like to see what each has to offer for the time being, and money will be an issue, as things are pretty tight right now financially. Thanks again!
Chris

Hi,
I think you will need to learn by searching and looking. These videos will help you http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/bb495180.aspx

Classes for small electronics / cellphone programming
Hi my name is Mark and I am a technical manager at SuperRey's Exotics and my team and myself inlcuded have studied at Stevens Tech in Hoboken, N.J. not sure how serious and how far away you are but Stevens has an extensive technology program, really indepth in fact many large corporations like Sharp, Apple, HTC, Exxon, Motorola and many others hire techs directly from Stevens Tech. However at Stevens it is really indepth stuff and they work on, not only new invetions but many patents actually come from the technology that Stevens does. I hope this helped you a little. And at SuperRey's we apply that knowledge for new inventions, cell phone repair and reprogramming and all kind of crazy stuff that we do, if your into it you will have alot of fun with that kind of technology. Good luck.

[Q] What do I need to know if I was going to work for a company like Google?

My dream is to open up my own company and design my own mobile os and to make smart phones. Working for Google like designing things would be cool too. I am heading off to college this fall and I need some help picking a major. What major would I need to go into to do things like this. Please help me. Also i have a term paper and I have to write how to achieve my dream job, so if you can answer quick that would help thanks in advance! btw I signed up for electrical engineering - is that good?

Firstly, ud need to know the name of the company
Google is the company, android is their mobile os flagship.

I don't think electrical engineering will help much as a major, but having an understanding of that stuff will help. But definitely look into computer science, software engineering, and pretty much anything computer related, especially things like systems engineering, and for phone development, you will DEFINITELY want to look into anything involving embedded systems.
You will need experience programming software and firmware, so programming courses are a must, so take as many of those as you can.
The most important thing you can do, though, is find books and resources for yourself and teach yourself as much as possible outside of school. A lot of courses revolve around a specific subset of material and may not discuss the topics that interest you. That, of course, will depend on your school's curriculum requirements and the professor teaching the class.
Whatever you do, though, make sure it is enjoyable to you and that you aren't just settling for something easy or convenient.

From a tech vet at Google:
http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_nex...oogle-interview-questions-hiring-process.html

ROM Creators - Degree in Computer Science?

Hey all, I'm semi new to the forums, running a rooted TB.
I had a question for/about the developers of custom roms though...
Who are you? Hobbyists? or if you have college degrees, what in? Computer Science?
I was curious because I'm about to start college and I was going to head down the Mechanical Engineering path, but after stumbling on custom roms/kernels and such for these phones, I'm intrigued! Creating custom ROMs and unlocking phones is a lot of fun. I thought about going for a degree in Computer Science as I've always been good at fixing computers/phones/ipods.
Thanks!
Logan

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loganm1881 said:
I thought about going for a degree in Computer Science as I've always been good at fixing computers/phones/ipods.
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A B.S. in CS is not for "fixing computers/phones/ipods." With that said, a degree in computer science is probably going to give you the best foundation in computer programming skills necessary to do what you want to do.

I have a CS degree
Really good that you are thinking about studying what intrigues you, instead of what your parents want, or what you think might make you the most money, or whatever.
My 2 cents is follow your passion; you will spend the next 30 to 40 years doing this every single day, so don't just like it, you should LOVE IT! Don't worry about the $$, if you are truly passionate about what you do the money will follow. For electives or even core classes, experience studies from all over the map, things you would never normally consider studying like: art, science, architecture, computer engineering, theater, supercomputing, history, political science, MIS, writing, whatever, and discover yourself.
I have a CS degree from 1987 + 27 years of computer hardware and software experience. You learn a lot of theory in a CS degree, and I would expect that 80% of the classes still use the same core theory, just with newer languages and Operating Systems and hardware. My CS degree gave me the basic tools to learn and work on the next latest greatest technology, right now it is cool small fast computerized phones, who knows what it will be 27 years from now.
I loved 80% of my computer jobs, although I can't say that for my bosses. Yes, you might (well ... probably) will have a few super loser bosses Another 2 cents worth of advice: when you run into a loser boss, hit the road right now for something even more interesting and don't look back.
I'm not a ROM builder, but I am also intrigued by the ROM Building people. I don't know exactly who the builders are, but I would bet it is a mix all over the map.

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ace56 said:
Really good that you are thinking about studying what intrigues you, instead of what your parents want, or what you think might make you the most money, or whatever.
My 2 cents is follow your passion; you will spend the next 30 to 40 years doing this every single day, so don't just like it, you should LOVE IT! Don't worry about the $$, if you are truly passionate about what you do the money will follow. For electives or even core classes, experience studies from all over the map, things you would never normally consider studying like: art, science, architecture, computer engineering, theater, supercomputing, history, political science, MIS, writing, whatever, and discover yourself.
I have a CS degree from 1987 + 27 years of computer hardware and software experience. You learn a lot of theory in a CS degree, and I would expect that 80% of the classes still use the same core theory, just with newer languages and Operating Systems and hardware. My CS degree gave me the basic tools to learn and work on the next latest greatest technology, right now it is cool small fast computerized phones, who knows what it will be 27 years from now.
I loved 80% of my computer jobs, although I can't say that for my bosses. Yes, you might (well ... probably) will have a few super loser bosses Another 2 cents worth of advice: when you run into a loser boss, hit the road right now for something even more interesting and don't look back.
I'm not a ROM builder, but I am also intrigued by the ROM Building people. I don't know exactly who the builders are, but I would bet it is a mix all over the map.
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Very helpful - Thank you.

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A B.S. in CS is not for "fixing computers/phones/ipods."
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Right, I didn't mean I wanted to get a CS degree to do those - only that I was good at that growing up and I have a strong interest in things of that nature.

How does one become an XDA Developer?

Or basically a developer in general.
I know XDA probably gets a helluva lot of these threads regularly, but bare with me.
No I am not a script kiddy. Rather, I'm looking for somewhat of a career advice.
So please don't simply say: Learn C and Java.
That is already an imperative for me.
Here's the deal.
I'm in my final year of my schooling life, Year 12, and next year I will probably begin University (or what the U.S call College).
Important decisions need to be made, like what courses I want to do, what subjects I should take.
Now my ultimate goal in life (not really but you get what I mean) is to be able to do anything to my device.
Like when I was following the PSP dev community, it was incredible. Custom firmwares, homebrew, plugins, exploits etc.
It was awesome. And I want to be able to help and give back to the community.
And I also want to be independent.
Like if theres a bug or something I don't have to rely on the developer to fix it.
For example, my current rom has a random reboot problem.
I want to be able to find and fix the problem myself and add new features and stuff.
That's my ultimate aim.
To be able to legitimately own my devices to such a degree.
Currently my skill resides in web-based javascript, which isn't even legitimate javascript (not in my eyes at least).
I've done some programming courses at school and one year I did Pascal which helped me to get a basic idea of programming functions, like loops and basic practice etc.
But it still doesn't really help me with the two big languages C (#/++) and Java that I have yet to start learning.
Anyways, there's a point to this I promise.
There are 3 courses that I'm interested in Software Engineering, Advanced Computing and Computer Science.
I've looked at the course descriptions and they still all sound the same to me. Although Advanced Computing seems to be more Mathematical based.
But yea, I'm not sure which one will help me achieve my said aim.
Do you guys have any basic career advice? Better yet, any career advice that could relate to my situation?
Are any of you in University/College right now? What courses are you studying?
Perhaps you've already graduated and you're currently an employed developer or something. What courses did you take to get there?
I'm sure XDA isn't one of the best places to ask this kinda thing; heck I bet the first comment will be someone saying how this is in the wrong section or something.
But yea. I just want to help and contribute back to the community.
Legitimate advice is more than welcome.
Trolls and attention ____s please exit to the left.

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Advice Needed

Hi forum, how's everyone doing!
I have just joined this forum today in hope that you would be able to give me some advice.
My name is Leo Santoro I am from Greater London England 24, and I am electric wheelchair bound as I have a muscle weakness disability called SMA. I have 24/7 care assistants.
Unfortunately over the past three years my disability has become worse and therefore I am unable to type apart from one hand via the iphone.
My father comes from a computer software background he learnt parts of programming language C because of the system he was using for his job was very bespoke.
He never taught me programming as a kid because my mother and father encouraged me to go out and play and not be stuck on the computer as with my disability going back 20 years doctors were not sure how long I would live.
Although growing up through school and college I aced my computer and media courses, where 2 years ago I graduated with a masters degree in digital marketing.
in this course although we learnt about marketing Apps, websites, and social media we never worked on the development of program's/apps.
Currently I find life very hard as I have been ill for a while and quite house-bound. I have all these amazing ideas for apps but do not know where I can start as having a disability makes me unable to work, therefore I have limited funding.
Sorry for the long spray of my life but I think it might help you answer my questions.
1. Is it to late to start learning an app development programming language to produce my own apps?
2. Based on the previous Q if yes … how do I start ? if no where can I put my ideas into action?
3. if everything is a no no no.. what do you all think is the best place to use my skills of digital marketing in a home-based potential job?
Cheers Leo,

leodigi said:
Hi forum, how's everyone doing!
I have just joined this forum today in hope that you would be able to give me some advice.
My name is Leo Santoro I am from Greater London England 24, and I am electric wheelchair bound as I have a muscle weakness disability called SMA. I have 24/7 care assistants.
Unfortunately over the past three years my disability has become worse and therefore I am unable to type apart from one hand via the iphone.
My father comes from a computer software background he learnt parts of programming language C because of the system he was using for his job was very bespoke.
He never taught me programming as a kid because my mother and father encouraged me to go out and play and not be stuck on the computer as with my disability going back 20 years doctors were not sure how long I would live.
Although growing up through school and college I aced my computer and media courses, where 2 years ago I graduated with a masters degree in digital marketing.
in this course although we learnt about marketing Apps, websites, and social media we never worked on the development of program's/apps.
Currently I find life very hard as I have been ill for a while and quite house-bound. I have all these amazing ideas for apps but do not know where I can start as having a disability makes me unable to work, therefore I have limited funding.
Sorry for the long spray of my life but I think it might help you answer my questions.
1. Is it to late to start learning an app development programming language to produce my own apps?
2. Based on the previous Q if yes … how do I start ? if no where can I put my ideas into action?
3. if everything is a no no no.. what do you all think is the best place to use my skills of digital marketing in a home-based potential job?
Cheers Leo,
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Welcome to XDA leo! Honestly, making apps can be pretty easy once you have learned a little java (a little html does not hurt) here and there, i would recommend starting here http://www.codecademy.com/ once you get a little used to some of that just browse around here for some of the magnificent guides XDA has to offer!