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i am a fresh graduate and just started my job . my company gave a project to update for its new version bt i dont know what to do where to look or how to start my work. can any one give me some suggestion .

Posted 10-Nov-14 23:16pm

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Solution 1

Not really, no.
Either you have a specification in which case read it and start working out what you need to implement it from there, or go see your boss and ask for some information.

We have no idea what your job entails, task involves or how much of the task is delegated to you.

If in doubt, speak to your boss and explain your problem: he has all that info, or can direct you to the person who has!

Posted 10-Nov-14 23:48pm

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Member 11124536 11-Nov-14 6:05am

thankx for the reply bt i already did that and he gave me no info , just a pdf of what to update . but he didnot give me any documentation of the code . now i am looking at hundreds of classes without any knowledge.btw it is android app which i am going to update

OriginalGriff 11-Nov-14 6:35am

And you expect us to know what these "hundreds of classes" do, and how they interact? :laugh:
We can't even see them! We don't have any idea what the app does, let alone how it works!
If there is no documentation there - and there should be if it isn't a two-bit outfit - then your only recourse is to start looking at the code and work out what it does. But we can't do that for you - we have no access to your company code (we don't even know what company you work for, just that it's "probably in Bangladesh")

It would probably be worth trying to talk to the original author(s) of the code - they may be able to point you in the right direction, but really, there isn't anything we can do from here.

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thesjeet · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-15T01:00:00

Hi,

Here is a thing that you can do. Its not technical information but a plan that I use when I deal with projects, you are currently dealing with:

You need to make a plan to proceed. Here is something that might help you to proceed.

Being a programmer, you have to know your code. If you don't have specification of your project, don't worry, your code is documentation of your project and no one give documentation of a code.

But you can check what it does. following are some basic steps that can help you in doing so.

1) You need to put the project on debug mode to check what the code does and run on an android device. You can check on android.developer.com or any other website how to put the code on debug in Android ADT.

2) Every Application have an entry point, like main class or main method of a java class Once you are using the application, you will get to know the entry point of application and what it does.

3) Third Step will be to know how it do the work. While you are debugging, check how application processes data and keep documenting that.

4) Till fourth step, you will have much information about what project you are dealing with and how you are dealing.

Fourth step will be getting to the point where you need to perform the updates. For this. This will be possible only if you pay attention to what is happening.

5) Fifth step you need to check is how you will be performing the change and what impact it will cause , possibly side effects.

So, you all need to do is understand the code, no matter hundreds of classes, Its your job so you need to do it.

Asking questions for doubts is a good thing.But you should put some efforts yourself first to clear the things you possibly can.

I hope this might help you a bit to proceed.

Wish a best of luck in project and job ahead

Best Regards

Richard MacCutchan · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-15T01:53:00

Solution 4

Go to https://developer.android.com/index.html[^] for technical resources on Android development. If you need some more basic tutorials then have a look at http://www.codeproject.com/KB/android/[^].

Posted 15-Nov-14 1:53am

Richard MacCutchan