Course Overview Doncho Minkov Telerik Corporation Technical Trainer

1. About Telerik 2. Course Objectives 3. Course Contents 4. Exams 5. Resources 6. Requirements for All Trainees 2

 What Telerik does?  Leading vendor of ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, WPF, Window Phone 7 and ASP.NET MVC components, ORM, Reporting, and CMS solutions and Visual Studio plugins  Headquartered in Bulgaria  Offices in USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Australia  450 employees – mostly developers  Employer #1 in Bulgaria for 2010  Microsoft Gold Certified Partner 4

 Telerik Academy is an initiative Telerik for training of young software engineers  Four main streams  Software Academy .NET Essentials  QA Academy  Developer Support  School Academy  Kids Academy  Student Courses 5

Software Academy C# Fundamentals QA Academy.NET Essentials Developer-Support Job at Telerik University Courses School Academy Kids Academy 6

Courses for Students Cross-Platform Mobile Applications (starting October, FMI) 7 Web Applications with ASP.NET MVC (starting October, FMI) High-Quality Programming Code (starting March) XAML Development (starting March) Web Front-End Development (starting March) Native Mobile Development (iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7) (starting March) Web Client-Side Development (starting October) Search Engine Optimization (starting November)

 Cross-Platform Mobile Development objectives  Providing concepts, technologies and skills for development of mobile applications  Mobile applications for the most popular OS  Using web standards like HTML 5, JavaScript, CSS  iOS, Android, WP 7, Blackberry, Bada etc.  Targets school and university students  Prepares for a career in mobile development 8

 Basic web front-end skills  You should know how to make a Web page  Seriousness  Put enough effort and time for this course  Desire to develop as mobile developer  Willingness to learn HTML5, JavaScript and Mobile development technologies  English language  All training materials are in English (intentionally, Telerik Academy policy) 9

 Svetlin Nakov, PhD  Manager Technical Training, Telerik Corp., Telerik Academy  20 years software development experience  10+ years experience as trainer  Author of 6 books  Speaker of hundreds of events  svetlin.nakov [at] telerik.com  Web site / Blog:

 Doncho Minkov  Technical Trainer, Telerik Corp, Telerik Academy  Student in Sofia University  Software Engineering  Contestant in the Informatics competitions  Graduate of the first season of Telerik Software Academy  doncho.minkov [at] telerik.com  Blog:

 Nikolay Kostov  Technical Trainer, Telerik Corp., Telerik Academy  Student in Sofia University  Computer Science  Contestant in the IT competitions  Graduate of the second season of Telerik Software Academy  nikolay.kostov [at] telerik.com  Blog:

 Alexander Gyoshev  Senior Front-End Developer, Telerik Corp., KendoUI Team 14  alexander.gyoshev [at] telerik.com,  Blogs:  

 Dimo Dimov  Senior Front-End Developer, Telerik Corp., KendoUI Team 15  dimo.dimov [at] telerik.com  Blog:

 Ivan Zhekov  Front-End Developer, Telerik Corp. 16  ivan.zhekov [at] telerik.com  Web Site: joneff.info joneff.info

 Kamen Bundev  Senior Front-End Developer, Telerik Corp., KendoUI Team 17  kamen.bundev [at] telerik.com

1. Course Overview 2. HTML Fundamentals 3. HTML5 Fundamentals 4. CSS and CSS3 5. Workshop: usability for mobile devices 7. Basic JavaScript 8. JavaScript OOP 9. jQuery Fundamentals 10. Accessing External Data 11. jQuery Mobile 19

12. Workshop: building UI with jQuery Mobile PhoneGap and Android SDK "Hello PhoneGap" Application 15. PhoneGap Development 16. Hardware Management 17. Workshop: Development with PhoneGap and jQuery Mobile 18. Game Development HTML5 and PhoneGap 19. Practical Project – Live Demo 20

 FMI, hall 101  Every Thursday, 19:00-22:00  Start: 13 th of October 2011  Telerik Academy Big Hall  Every Tuesday, 18:00-21:00  Start: 25 th of October

Exams and Grades

 The course exams consist of everyday homework and a practical course project  The homework will be reviewed every week  The practical course project will be reviewed by the trainers team  The best students will get a certification 24

 Evaluation criteria  75% of the final score will be your project score  25% of the final score will be from homework 25ScoreGrade Excellent ( 6 ) Very Good ( 5 ) Good ( 4 ) Average ( 3 )

 Homework assignments are due in 1 week after each lecture  Submission instructions will be published at the course Web site  You can upload your homework at: 26

 Best students will get certification and awards  Certificate of achievement  Requires all homework assignments and 90% of the score from the projects  Signed by the trainers team  Awards  Remarkable results  Top 5%-10% students 28 Sponsor:

What Should you Prepare for this Course? 29

 HTML Editor  Notepad  Notepad++  Development Tools  Eclipse IDE  Dreamweaver  Android SDK  PhoneGap

 "Designing with Web Standards", Jeffrey Zeldman, New Riders Press, 2005, ISBN Designing with Web StandardsDesigning with Web Standards  "PPK on JavaScript", Peter Paul-Koch, New Riders Press, 2006, ISBN PPK on JavaScriptPPK on JavaScript  "HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Sixth Edition", Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy, O'Reilly, 2006, ISBN HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Sixth EditionHTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Sixth Edition  PhoneGap Getting Started –  PhoneGap Wiki –

 All attendees of the course should register at:  We need registration to maintain communication will all attendees  Regarding schedule, projects, assignments, etc.  Ask your questions at: 33 groups.google.com/group/mobile-development-course

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