Free Training Courses for.NET Software Engineers Svetlin Nakov Telerik Corporation

What Makes Telerik so Successful?

 What Telerik does?  Leading vendor of ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, WPF and Windows Forms components, ORM, Reporting, and CMS solutions and VS Plugins  Headquartered in Bulgaria  With offices in Boston, Munich and Austin  About 200 employees – mostly developers  Employer # 1 in Bulgaria for 2007  Microsoft Gold Certified Partner 3

Free Trainings for.NET Software Engineers

 Train school students in software engineering with the.NET technologies, free of charge  Practical training with lots of practice  Cutting edge technologies from Microsoft  Preparation for the National IT Olympiad  Categories: software development, Web development, Web sites, multimedia apps.  Preparation for the IT test  3 full days each month, starting from 11/2010 5

 The principal trainer  Svetlin Nakov  Manager Technical Training, Telerik Corporation  10+ years experience as software engineer, consultant and trainer  Author of 5 books about computer programming  Winner in tens of programming Olympiads and contests  PhD in Computer Science 6

C# Fundamentals, Software Engineering, Databases, Web Technologies, ASP.NET & AJAX, WPF, Silverlight

 Introduction to C# Programming  Sample IT Test for Preparation for the Olympiad .NET Framework – Technology Overview  C# Language Overview – Part I – Expressions, Statements, Loops, Arrays, …  C# Language Overview – Part II – Objects, Strings, Exceptions, Collections, …  Object-Oriented Programming with C# – Defining Classes and Advanced OOP  Practical Project: “Triple” Game (in teams) 8

December 2010  Software Engineering and Team Working  Sample IT Test for Preparation for the Olympiad  High-Quality Programming Code  Software Engineering Fundamentals  Source Control Systems and Team Working  Figuring out a Good Project for the Olympiad  Setting-up Teams and Projects  Google Code, Project Locker, CodePlex, etc.  Projects Mentoring (Individual Attention) 9

 Databases, SQL Server and ORM Engines  Sample IT for Preparation for the IT Olympiad  Databases, SQL and MS SQL Server – RDBMS, SQL SELECT, Joins, Aggregate Functions, Grouping, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, …  LINQ-to-SQL – ORM Concepts, Using DataContext for CRUD Operations, Joins  Practical Project: Implementing a Database Processing Application with SQL Server and LINQ-to-SQL (in teams) 10

February 2011  HTML and Web Technologies  Sample IT Test for Preparation for the Olympiad  Web Technologies Basics – HTTP and WWW  HTML Basics – HTML, Images, Tables, Forms, …  CSS Basics – Creating and using CSS Styles, Using Firebug and IE Developer Toolbar  JavaScript Basics and Accessing DOM  Practical Project: Creating a Web Site by Web Design Given – Slice and Dice (in teams) 11

March 2011  ASP.NET and AJAX  Sample IT Test for Preparation for the Olympiad  ASP.NET Web Forms – Basic Concepts  ASP.NET Data Binding and Data Controls, Accessing SQL Server with LINQ-to-SQL  ASP.NET Advanced Topics – Master Pages, Sessions, Membership, etc.  ASP.NET AJAX, AJAX Control Toolkit  Practical Project: Creating a Data-Driven ASP.NET Web Application (in teams) 12

April 2011  Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)  Sample IT Test for Preparation for the Olympiad  WPF Basics – XAML Text, Images, Graphics, Animations, Basic Controls  WPF Data Binding and Data-Bound Controls  Creating Data-Driven WPF Applications – Integrating LINQ-to-SQL and WPF  Practical Project: Creating a Data-Driven WPF Application (in teams) 13

May 2011  Silverlight  Sample IT Test for Preparation for the Olympiad  Silverlight Basics – XAML, RIA, XBAP Apps and Asynchronous Programming  WCF RIA Services – Accessing External Data  Creating Data-Driven Silverlight Applications – Integrating LINQ-to-SQL and Silverlight  Practical Project: Creating a Data-Driven Silverlight Application (in teams) 14

May 2011 (Again)  Preparation for the IT Olympiad  Sample IT Test for Preparation for the Olympiad  Projects Mentoring  Assisting the Students in Creating their Projects for the Olympiad  Making the Projects to Complain to the Requirements  Presentation Skills – Developing Presentation Skills and Preparing Good Presentations 15

 High School Students only  Basic computer skills  We don’t teach computer literacy  Basic English skills  Ability to read technical documentation is enough  Serious attitude 17

 To apply for Telerik Academy program visit its official Web site:  Join the official discussion group: 18

 Location?  The Center for Preparation of Students for Olympiads (in Sofia)  Maximum attendees:  Directors should excuse students from classes for 3 days each month  Shall we send official letter to the directors?  School students are not allowed to travel alone? 20

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