Jesse Liberty

I started programming in 1971, but didn’t much like it and didn’t start professional programming until 1985.  I’d be very interested in when you started, and what languages you used since then (languages you used to write something meaningful)  Here is most of my list (the ones in bold I used to write commercial applications)

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For the past four weeks, we’ve been reviewing the fundamentals of Xamarin.  Let’s stop for a bit and talk about how we really code, and how we should.

In my Pluralsight courses, I take you through each skill, step by step, but here I’d like to try giving you a lot of information at once, and see what comments you leave about the pace and quantity of information.

So let’s start a new project, not unlike the previous, but this time we’re going to build it out using unit tests and all the goodies of a real application.  Again, fasten your seatbelts because we’re going to cover a lot of ground quickly.

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Zero hype.  Free means free.

Sign up for FalafelCon (Monterey, September 14-17)  and you not only get full admission to all of FalafelCon and all of TechIntersection, but under this special deal you get the IOT workshop by Doug Seven ( all day Monday) and my Xamarin workshop (all day Friday) free.

(Or if you prefer, pay for both and get a Surface 3)  

In this, week 3 of 52 Weeks of Xamarin, we’re going to pick up where we left off last week, and add event handling to our buttons

There is much to do to make this a working program, and starting next week we’ll begin to add real logic, as well as a Model class (data) and a ViewModel class (logic).  We’ll also begin to add unit tests, and shoot for test-driven development.

But I did promise to illustrate how event handling works, and so this week I’ll show how to respond to a button press.  This is very simple, which means this week’s posting will be a bit short.

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 This is the second week of 52 weeks of Xamarin.  To make this all more interesting and practical, we’ll start on building a quasi-real-world application; the iconic To Do List.  

The application shown in this and future columns is based on an application I explore in depth in my forthcoming Pluralsight course, Beginning Mobile Development with Xamarin

Step 1 is to open a new project.  Choose Cross-platform App/ Blank Xamarin.Forms App,  and name it 52ToDo.  As you work your way through the configuration wizard be sure that Use Portable Class Library is selected.  

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I’m very proud to announce my latest Pluralsight course: Xamarin.Forms and Data.

Thanks!