Let me suggest my perceptions in my point of view ,
It was the end of march - 27,2017, my schooling days were ended , being in the computer science field in my schooling days , I didn’t concentrate on competitive programming those days , because our board exams focused only on marks and not on the real knowledge
EXPLORING MY WAY:
After my schooling , I came to know that Becoming Android Developer and to solve the real problems is fun ,
Now I explored my way to become an ANDROID DEVELOPER , so I learnt all the basics of java and started my career at udacity in the year of 2017
I had an old laptop , with the named LENOVO THINKPAD SERIES , it has been used by my uncle , and after my brother, atlast it came to me ,( best part is it is used by someone before my uncle) , now many of you have been pondering , how this guy is managing with this laptop,
this is the front view image :)
- SPEC OF MY LAPTOP :
- 2 GB RAM ( when the laptop arrived to me it was fully red indicated in the C drive )
- Low amount of HDD ( i didn’t remember the storage capacity , but it was full ) most of the android developers knows that creating project workspace needs around minimum 300 GB for their storage separately , I am lagging the space was limited to me only 30 GB
- SPEAKERS ( i used to watch the videos which was prescribed by Udacity but my speakers didn’t work it all anytime , giving a small slap on side by side will works like once in a blue moon )
- BATTERY : ( I need to work with my laptop every time under charging , because my battery life was gone and i didn’t changed it , the best part is when someone passes by the way where the laptop charger is shaked by a little bit It goes OFF ( power off , force shut down automatically)
- Processor - ( INTEL PROCESSOR ) whenever i try to open chrome browser for surfing it tooks me 5 mins or more to open it for efficient and smooth run , if i did something action before that it might stuck with no moments , there is small movement cursor in the keyboard refer the above picture I used to move and operate it
ABOVE ALL MY LAP SEEMS TO BE :
I am wondering , being an android developer, I tried to fix bugs with the help of my brother and stackoverflow , But I don’t know how to fix my laptop ?
WHAT MAKES ME THIS Ahhh!! sense ?
It was around in the midst of may , I have been coding my projects for submission , I have finished the app with almost everything , sketched an idea and coding till overnight , suddenly there is a power-cut
I am over frustrated cant control myself , but there is feature of auto save in ANDROID STUDIO - an IDE for android developers for making apps , after the power-cut my laptop undergoes forced shut down and with the mood of frustration i went to sleep
NEXT MORNING:
under the stream of luck , my project has not been saved indicating that gradle - root error and it says me the bin folder is deleted , I used to think always my project submission date nearing to the end ( after the subscription date , we need to renew the course fee once more !!! this make me ahhh ! sense ) , this seems to be my worst nightmare
I’ve lost my projects many time due to the above features ,
ABOVE ALL , I loved it because it introduced me into cs field - a ocean I’ve discovered many things , it brings me up , I finished my android course successfully within span of 1 months with prior to 7 days of end date those days recalled my childhood when i looked through this question
LESSONS WHAT I’ve LEARNT FROM OLD LAP:
- The most important thing is VERSION CONTROL SYSTEM - I recommend to all the beginners who are in the field of CS
WHAT IS VERSION CONTROL SYSTEM ?
A component of software configuration management, version control, also known as revision control or source control, is the management of changes to documents, computer programs, large web sites, and other collections of information.
YES , GIT IS SO AWESOME , whenever I need to ask opinion from a developer i used to compress it and send that using drive , but latter that I realized to work with git is awesome ,
create a repo , give a commit and push your files to your master branch , it seems to be like cloud , you can access it everywhere
P.S :
1.I would like to thank DHARMARAJ anna who introduced me to computer science field
2.This is my first answer in QUORA - I felt blessed to start my quora’s question thirst with my desired field
Edit 1 : thanks to my dad, after the successful completion of Android course my dad bought me a me laptop with good features, ( crossed 300 views + comments it makes my day )
Edit 2 : crossed 500 views, am shouting at midnight, 12:50 am, very glad to be a part of quora community, thanks for your support, share your reviews!!
Edit 3 : 3. 2 k views, overwhelming response thank you all quorans, thanks for your reply and DM’s