In this live learning, we will look at the basics of building a user interface for Android with Mono for Android. The user interface is typically the first thing that a user sees when they work with your application. They will often judge your application based on the user interface. We will examin the basic concepts of UI design with movile devices, the Android XML based layout language, some of the UI design surfaces for Android, some basic Android controls and finally some suggestions on creating a successful Android User Interface.

JavaScript has been around since Brendan Eich created the first version in just 10 days for use in Netscape Navigator 2.0 in 1995. After languishing for years, derided by "professional" programmers as a toy language, it has surged to prominence as a key technology in Web 2.0 and AJAX. This live learning event will explore some of the history of the language and its use in browsers, look at some browser-based development and debugging tools (the focus will be on Google Chrome, but will be applicable to other browsers as well), and examine the lexical structure of the language. If you've been thinking about writing JavaScript code for the first time, or coming back after avoiding it for a long time, this session will give you a solid JavaScript foundation for learning more. And maybe even help you see just how good a language (parts of) it is!