1. WPF Course Program, Evaluation, Exams Doncho Minkov Telerik Software Academy academy.telerik.com Senior Technical Trainer http://minkov.it

2. 2  What's Coming Next in the Academy?  The Desktop Apps with WPF Course Program  The Trainers Team  Exams and Evaluation  Standard Criteria  Bonuses  Resources for the Course

3. Coming To The Next Module

4. 4  A consequence of three desktop courses  Windows 8 store apps with HTML and JS  Development of Win8 Store apps for PC  Desktop Apps with XAML and WPF  Development of Data-driven desktop apps and RIA applications  Windows 8 store apps with XAML  Development of Win8 Store apps for PC and mobile

5.  Software Academy Curriculum Software Academy Curriculum Software Academy Curriculum 5  Specialties @ the Academy Specialties @ the Academy Specialties @ the Academy  Success Stories @ Telerik Success Stories @ Telerik Success Stories @ Telerik

6. What Will We Cover in the XAML and WPF Course

7. 1. XAML Overview  What and who is XAML  WPF, Silverlight and WinRT 2. XAML Basics  Elements and properties  Windows and UserControls 3. Layout Controls  Ordering of elements, grids, etc… 4. XAML Controls  Buttons, TextBoxes, ListViews and more 7

8. 5. Data-binding  Binding of elements with data  Keeping the data synchronized 6. Templates  Item, data and control templates 7. Complex and List binding  Binding to enumerable elements  Synchronizing with a current element 8

9. 8. XAML Concepts  Dependency and attached behavior  Logical and Visual trees  Commanding  Resources 9. Model-View-ViewModel  Designing an reusable and extensible app 10. Styling  The shiny stuff - styling properties  Triggers and EventTriggers 9

11.  Doncho Minkov  Senior 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 11

12.  George Georgiev  Technical Trainer @ Telerik Corp.  Informatics and IT competitions contestant and winner  Student in Sofia University  Software engineering  Graduate from the third season of Telerik Software Academy  E-mail: georgi.georgiev [at] telerik.com  Blog: http://itgeorge.net http://itgeorge.net 12

13.  Ivaylo Kenov  Technical Trainer @ Telerik Software Academy  Math contestant  Champion from OOP and DSA courses  Email: ivaylo.kenov [at] telerik.com 13

14. Thank God There Are Bonuses!

15.  Evaluation components  Practical exam – 60 %  Teamwork – 15%  Homework – 10 %  Homework evaluation – 5 %  3 peer reviews per homework (excellent, OK, bad)  Attendance in class – 10 %  Bonuses  Forums activity – bonus up to 5 %  Helping new C# students – bonus 15

16.  Criteria for pass / pass with excellence / fail  Pass with excellence  Very high exam results or or  High total results  Pass  Average total results  Fail  Low total results or low exam results 16

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  Homework comments are not obligatory 17

18.  From now on 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) 18

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

20.  Register for the "Telerik Academy Forums":  Discuss the course exercises with your colleagues  Find solutions for the exercises  Share source code / discuss ideas  The XAML and WPF official web site: 20 http://forums.academy.telerik.com/desktop- development/xaml http://forums.academy.telerik.com/desktop- development/xaml academy.telerik.com/student-courses/software- technologies/desktop-apps-with-xaml-and-wpf/ academy.telerik.com/student-courses/software- technologies/desktop-apps-with-xaml-and-wpf/

21.  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 21 telerikacademy.com/Courses/Courses/Details/111

22.  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  Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Developer with Service Pack 1 and Developer Tools 22

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