Unsuccessful policy of CIQ devlopers.

I am amazed of Garmin's policy towards the Monkey C programming language. Training resources for this language are very rare. There are only two lessons on YouTube.
Garmin should intensify lessons on YouTube, especially for beginners.
Profisional Apps makers are very few and beginners cant learn. I think this language is going to be died by this policy.

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FlowState over 2 years ago in reply to Eva +3

I agree that the documentation and examples aren't great.

Eva said:
Further,
if you ask someone to help you via the Garmin forum, no one will help you.
I don't know where this whole community is going…
dpawlyk over 2 years ago in reply to Eva +2

Eva said:
It is important that when a person asks for help, they are at least answered, it is exactly like in school, the student asks the teacher if something is not clear to him and gets an explanation…
jim_m_58 over 2 years ago +1

There are a bunch of samples in the SDK, there's also a bunch of online doc about getting started

https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/connect-iq-basics/

There's also more than 2 you tube videos…

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jim_m_58 over 2 years ago

There are a bunch of samples in the SDK, there's also a bunch of online doc about getting started

https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/connect-iq-basics/

There's also more than 2 you tube videos. Here one all about custon fonts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRQyA4BeqqE

There are also a bunch of items in the doc that get fairly detailed about specifics

https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/connect-iq-faq/

And under News & Announcements, you find others

At the very top of this forum your find a sticky and in the first post is a link to PeterD's site with links to source code, as well as tutorials.

It's pretty dated, but here's a whole book about CIQ

https://developer.garmin.com/downloads/connect-iq/wearable-programming-for-the-active-lifestyle.pdf

6836317 over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

jim_m_58 said:
There's also more than 2 you tube videos. Here one all about custon fonts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRQyA4BeqqE

I saw that clip before and it’s 7 years old.Thare are also other 2 or 3 old youtube videos about Monkey C. ‏While there are hundreds of thousands of videos that talk about other languages and as you know and all we know that learning by video is the best way to learn especially for beginners.

‏Not everyone is ready to read this huge amount of pages. Think about it.

6836317 over 2 years ago

Direct or online workshops should also be organized to introduce people to this language, which will revive the application market and open up space for creative ideas. The stagnation throughout these years has limited knowledge to a small group of developers.

Unfortunately.

jim_m_58 over 2 years ago in reply to 6836317

Every year there is a summit or developer conference with breakout sessions, including the basics. Here's the whole set from GDVC 2022

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZQteomUj15NRy-7yXVgulnUeXVDPh4Cc

Here's GDVC 2020

https://forums.garmin.com/developer/garmin-developer-virtual-conference-2020/

6836317 over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

As beginners, we need simple explanations like this only lesson.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_sHBqQKpIZg

jim_m_58 over 2 years ago in reply to 6836317

Did you watch the videos from GDVC 2020 and GDVC 2022?

6836317 over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Yes I've already watched some of these videos. But they are not as much easy as the lesson I referred to above.

Eva over 2 years ago

User 6836317, I agree with your opinion, there really aren't many tutorials that can explain programming in Monkey C more.

When I looked for some SDK folder examples, there aren't very clear examples either.

Further,
if you ask someone to help you via the Garmin forum, no one will help you.
I don't know where this whole community is going, but it's a waste of time for me to write here and ask someone for help (my own experience).

FlowState over 2 years ago in reply to Eva

I agree that the documentation and examples aren't great.

Eva said:
Further,
if you ask someone to help you via the Garmin forum, no one will help you.
I don't know where this whole community is going, but it's a waste of time for me to write here and ask someone for help (my own experience).

I hate to bite, but I'll say there's two major reasons nobody replied to your post (just my opinion):

1) You played the gender card, identifying yourself as a woman (why does it matter?) and assuming we're all men. Not gonna lie, as a guy I find that kind of thing borderline offensive, because of the implication that it should matter when it comes to helping someone out.

2) You were too vague about exactly what you needed help with. When I saw your original question, I immediately knew there was no way I could help you unless I asked some follow up questions to get more information.

This is also a very small community, and there's only a handful of regular posters. People have jobs, lives, other hobbies, etc.

You also deleted your post pretty quickly. Who knows if someone would've replied eventually?

jim_m_58 over 2 years ago in reply to FlowState

I agree with both points.