Marko Gargenta

Marko Gargenta
Consultant, Marakana

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Marko Gargenta founded Marakana in 2001 to help underprivileged youth, minorities, and inner-city kids learn web technologies and get ahead in life. So Marakana emerged with goal of helping people get better at what they do professionally, focused on open source software training.

Marko is creator of Marakana Android Training series series. He has taught Android to over 1,000 developers at companies such as Cisco, Motorola, Qualcomm, DoD and many others. Marko is a co-founder of San Francisco Android Users Group and regularly teaches Android Bootcamp at Marakana.

Marko is author of Learning Android book published by O’Reilly Media. This book is based on Android Bootcamp and incorporates best learning practices for new developers to start creating applications for this exciting open source mobile platform.

Marko is also co-author of “PHP and MySQL By Example”, a collection of PHP examples. The book was published by Prentice Hall in 2006, and has been translated to Spanish and Polish.

Marko Gargenta obtained his Bachelor of Mathematics Degree from University of Waterloo (Canada’s MIT) and has been developing in Java since 1996. He lives in San Francisco, California.

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8:30am Monday, 07/19/2010
Android for Java Developers
Mobile
 Location: E145/E146
Tags: java, mobile, android
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Marko Gargenta (Marakana)
Learn how to develop mobile apps for Android platform in this quick tutorial. Assuming you are familiar with Java or similar OOP, this hands-on example-driven tutorial will show you how Android uses Java and how you can quickly pick it up to start programming for mobile devices. Read more.
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