Course Program, Evaluation, Exams George Georgiev Telerik Software Academy academy.telerik.com Technical Trainer itgeorge.net

2  What's Coming Next in the Academy?  Course Program  The Trainers Team  Evaluation  Standard Criteria  Bonuses  Windows Store Developer Account  Resources for the Course

Coming To The Next Module

4  The Academy is now split in two tracks  Desktop & Mobile Track  Web Development Track  You are in the Desktop & Mobile Track  Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS and JS  WPF & XAML  Windows 8 with C# and XAML (i.e. this course)  Short name: Win 8 XAML  Hybrid Mobile Apps

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Topics to be covered

1. Store Apps with C# & XAML Intro, Asynchronous Programming with C# 2. UI Controls, Gestures, Pages, Navigation 3. Accessing files, Storage, App lifecycle 4. Data binding, Accessing remote data 5. Building a Store App from scratch using MVVM, Devices, Push notifications 6. Implementing a design for a Store App 7. Working with Contracts & Devices 8. Porting Windows 8 App to Windows 8 Phone 7

 George Georgiev  Technical Telerik Corp.  Informatics and IT competitions contestant and winner  Graduate from the third season of Telerik Software Academy  georgi.georgiev [at] telerik.com  Blog: 9

 Doncho Minkov  Technical Telerik Software Academy  Informatics competitions contestant  Graduate from the first season of Telerik Software Academy  doncho.minkov [at] telerik.com  Web site and blog:

 Tsvyatko Konov  Technical Telerik WinCore Team  Software Developer and Lecturer .NET, WinRT, Windows Phone, etc.  Co-author of "Intro Programming with Java" and "Intro Programming with C#"  Blog:

 George Atanasov  XAML Front-end Telerik xLabs  IT competitions contestant and winner  Co-author of DriveFreeZ  Design, UX and UI implementation 12

A bit different than other Academy courses

 Evaluation components  Course Project – 75 %  Homework – 15 %  Homework evaluation – 5 %  3 peer reviews per homework (excellent, OK, bad)  Attendance in class – 5 %  Bonuses  Forums activity – bonus up to 10 % 14

 Criteria for pass / pass with excellence / fail  Pass with excellence  Very high Course Project results  App in Windows Store  Pass  Average total results  App in Windows Store  Fail  Low total results or low exam results or no App in Windows Store after deadline 15

 The Course Project is the main assessment for this course  Build a finished Windows Store App  Individually, throughout the course  There will be a deadline for submitting apps to the store (1 month after course is over)  Think up an idea for a project and implement it  You will receive a full list of project evaluation criteria in a few days  Last 3 days of the course – no lectures, finih your course project (you should start earlier) 16

 Course Project evaluation and deliverables  You submit your project no later than 23:59:59 on 4 October 2013  Full, compile-able and executable source code  You submit a link to a (max) 2-minute public video in YouTube, briefly showing your project  The trainers team evaluates your app  Course project results will be published ASAP  Final course results will be published around the 3 November

 Everyone will get feedback for their homework  Everyone will give feedback for few random homework submissions  Students submit homework anonymously  Please exclude your name from the submissions!  For each homework submitted  Students evaluate 3 random homeworks  From the same topic, after the deadline  Homework comments are not obligatory 18

 You should check your presence on the barcode reader 3 times a day :  In the morning when lectures begin (~10:30)  After lunch break (~13:30)  When you leave academy halls (~19:00) 19

You need it to upload your app

 A Store developer account permits you  To upload apps to the Store  To earn money from your apps  Typically paid (80 BGN/year for BG individuals) 80 BGN/year for BG individuals80 BGN/year for BG individuals  You can receive it FREE through DreamSpark  If you don't have a DreamSpark account, request it with an to (don't forget to mention your username and that your are enrolled in this course)  You can share accounts with other students 21

What We Need in Addition to this Course Content?

 Register for the "Telerik Academy Forums":  Discuss the course exercises with your colleagues  Find solutions for the exercises  Share source code / discuss ideas  Win 8 Apps with C# & XAML official web site: 23 courses/software-technologies/windows-eight- store-applications/about courses/software-technologies/windows-eight- store-applications/about development/windows-8-apps-with-xaml development/windows-8-apps-with-xaml

 The Telerik Integrated Learning System (TILS)   Important resource for all students  Homework submissions  Homework peer reviews  Presence cards with barcode  Reports about your results 24 telerikacademy.com/Courses/Courses/Details/88

 Software needed for this course:  Microsoft Visual Studio 2012/2013 or Visual Studio Express 2012 (free version of VS 2012 ) Visual Studio Express 2012Visual Studio Express 2012  Note: If you use Visual Studio 2013, be sure to download the one for "Windows 8 Apps"  Windows 8 (Desktop + WinRT) 25

 XAML knowledge is expected from you  Desktop Apps with WPF & XAML Desktop Apps with WPF & XAML Desktop Apps with WPF & XAML  Take a look at this year's other Windows Store App Course  Windows 8 Store Apps with HTML, CSS and JS Windows 8 Store Apps with HTML, CSS and JS Windows 8 Store Apps with HTML, CSS and JS  There will be a lot of things in common  Doc roadmap for Windows Store apps with C# and XAML Doc roadmap for Windows Store apps with C# and XAML Doc roadmap for Windows Store apps with C# and XAML 26

Questions?

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