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

2. 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

3. Coming To The Next Module

4. 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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6. Topics to be covered

7. 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

9.  George Georgiev  Technical Trainer @ Telerik Corp.  Informatics and IT competitions contestant and winner  Graduate from the third season of Telerik Software Academy  E-mail: georgi.georgiev [at] telerik.com  Blog: http://itgeorge.net http://itgeorge.net 9

10.  Doncho Minkov  Technical Trainer @ Telerik Software Academy  Informatics competitions contestant  Graduate from the first season of Telerik Software Academy  Email: doncho.minkov [at] telerik.com  Web site and blog: http://minkov.it http://minkov.it  Twitter: @donchominkov @donchominkov 10

11.  Tsvyatko Konov  Technical Lead @ 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: www.konov.me www.konov.me 11

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

13. A bit different than other Academy courses

14.  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

15.  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

16.  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

17.  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 2013 17

18.  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

19.  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

20. You need it to upload your app

21.  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 e-mail to academy@telerik.com (don't forget to mention your http://telerikacademy.com username and that your are enrolled in this course) academy@telerik.com http://telerikacademy.com academy@telerik.com http://telerikacademy.com  You can share accounts with other students 21

22. What We Need in Addition to this Course Content?

23.  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 http://academy.telerik.com/student- courses/software-technologies/windows-eight- store-applications/about http://academy.telerik.com/student- courses/software-technologies/windows-eight- store-applications/about http://forums.academy.telerik.com/desktop- development/windows-8-apps-with-xaml http://forums.academy.telerik.com/desktop- development/windows-8-apps-with-xaml

24.  The Telerik Integrated Learning System (TILS)  www.telerikacademy.com www.telerikacademy.com  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

25.  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

26.  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

27. Questions?

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