Course Program, Evaluation and Exams Svetlin Nakov Telerik Software Academy academy.telerik.com Technical Trainer

2  What's Coming Next in the Academy?  The C# Part II Course Program  The Trainers Team  Exams and Evaluation  Standard Criteria  Bonuses  Resources for the Course  Champions from C# Part I and HTML Basics

Coming To The Next Module

4  C# Part II  Continuation of C# – Part I  Fundamentals of programming  Pretty much the same  Lectures two times a week  Practical exam after a month  The course exam?  5 problems for 6 hours  No test, just a practical exam

 Software Academy curriculum Software Academy curriculum Software Academy curriculum  The C# Programming Track The C# Programming Track The C# Programming Track  The Web Development Track The Web Development Track The Web Development Track 5  the Academy the Academy the Academy  Success Telerik Success Telerik Success Telerik

What Will We Cover in C# Part II?

 Arrays  Working with arrays  Algorithms on sequences  Multidimensional Arrays  Matrices, cubes etc.  Algorithms on matrices  Methods  Creating and calling methods  Return type, arguments, overloading 7

 Numeral Systems  Binary, decimal, hexadecimal  Representation of numbers  Creating and Using Objects  What is object?  Using.NET standard classes  Exception Handling  What are exception?  Catching and throwing exceptions 8

 Strings and Text Processing  Working with strings  Building strings  Text Files  Reading and writing text files  Practical Exam Preparation  Solving the last year's problems  Practical Exam  5 problems for 6 hours 9

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

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

 Nikolay Kostov  Senior Software Developer and Technical Telerik Corp.  Student in Sofia University  Computer Science  IT and Informatics competitions contestant  Graduate from the second season of Telerik Software Academy  nikolay.kostov [at] telerik.com  Blog:

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

 Lyubomir Yanchev  IT competitions contestant and winner  Taekwondo Club "Mission"  Student at "Erih Kestner" German High School  yanchev.lyubomir [at] gmail.com 15

Thank God There Are Bonuses!

 Evaluation components  Practical exam – 60 %  Homework – 15 %  Homework evaluation – 15 %  3 peer reviews per homework  Attendance in class – 10 %  Bonuses  Forums activity – bonus up to 10 %  Helping the other students – bonus up to 15 %  PC Magazine contest – bonus up to 20% PC Magazine contest PC Magazine contest 17

 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  Give written feedback, at least 200 characters  Low-quality feedback  report for punishment 18

What We Need in Addition to this Course Content?

The official textbook for the course  “Introduction to Programming with C#”, Nakov S. and his team, 2010  Freely downloadable from:  The C# programming tracks follows the book  C# Part II  chapters 7 … 15 (with exceptions)

 Register for the "Telerik Academy Forums":  Discuss the course exercises with your colleagues  Find solutions for the exercises  Share source code / discuss ideas  The C# Part II official web site: 21 forums.academy.telerik.com/csharp-fundamentals programming/csharp-programming-part-2/ programming/csharp-programming-part-2/

 The Telerik Integrated Learning System (TILS)   Important resource for all students  Homework submissions  Homework peer reviews  Presence cards with barcode  Reports about your results 22 telerikacademy.com/Courses/Courses/Details/20

 Software needed for this course:  Microsoft Windows (XP / Win 7 / Win 8 )  Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 or Visual Studio Express 2012 (free version of VS 2012 ) Visual Studio Express 2012Visual Studio Express 2012 .NET Framework 4.5 (included in Visual Studio)  Visual Studio 2005, 2008 or 2010 is also OK 23

Telerik Academy Ninja Champions

 # 1 – Teodor Kurtev  # 2 – Konstantin Dikov  # 3 – Stoyan Kirov * See for more details 25

 # 1 – Teodor Kurtev  # 2 – Nikolay Zhelyazkov  # 3 – Vladimir Georgiev 26

 Teodor Kurtev 27

 # 1 – Teodor Kurtev  # 2 – Georgi Yankov  # 3 – Stoyan Kirov 28

29  PC Magazine & Telerik Programming Contest – Round #1  # 1 – Pavel Kolev & Atanas Keranov  # 2 – Mihail Gochev  # 3 – Nader Dabur & Alexander Todorov * More info at

 Top 3 Blogging and Knowledge Sharing Champions  Teodor Kurtev  Magdalena Grigorova  Viktor Ivanov

Questions?

 Now introduce yourself to the others  Get acquainted with 5 people around you  People who you do not previously know!  Who are you, what is your background, why you came at Telerik Software Academy, …?

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