.NET Code Camp 2013

Code Camp Week: Week 4 Monday 21.1 - Friday 25.1 2011 Room no: 6218

CT30A9300 Code Camp on Communications Engineering (4 cr)

News & Notes

Course is about to start!

Friday tutorial material HERE

Please give course feedback: Course Feedback, pt1

Code Camp Week

Location 6218 basement computer lab

Start time on Monday 23.1.2011 at 9:10

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
08:15	Presentations
09:15	Idea brainstroming and group formation Imagine Cup 2013 Code Camps	Coding	Coding	Coding	Presentations
10:15	Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 tech briefing Tutorial 101 and Metro UI Design and Tutorials	Coding	Coding	Coding	Presentations complete: Winner announced
12:00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Closing
13:00	Idea brainstorming and group formation	Coding	Coding	Coding
14:15	Idea brainstorming and group formation / Coding	Coding	Coding	Coding
17:00	Idea presentations at 6218	Progress reports and sauna! (at the beach sauna)	Coding	Coding
02:00	Coding	Coding	Deadline style Coding and Code complete

Presentations

Feedback times

To be announced

Groups

Group	Application	Name 1	Name 2	Name 3	Name 4
Group 1	Game of Survival	Jukka Stranden	Petteri Pekonen
Group 2	GPS adventure	Tatu Huttunen	Joonas Pohjala	Rasmus Halsas
Group 3	Growth	Pablo Caro Martin	Masoumeh Khaksari	Negin Banaeianjahromi	Juan Antonio Aldea Armenteros
Group 4	Restaurants @ LUT	Ilkka Tommola	Tulibako Paiti	Doreen Mushi
Group 5	Sale Assistant	Saeed Mirzaeifar	Gergely Zachar	Yasir Ali	Ville Arola
Group 6	App Name	Name 1	Name 2	Name 3	Name 4

Requirements for projects

Use one or more of the following technologies in the project:

Windows

Windows Phone

Windows Server and/or ASP.NET

Kinect SDK

Xbox Indie Games

.NET Framework

Windows Azure

No matter what technologies you choose, your project must meet app store guidelines and target some Imagine Cup competition category.
Return requirements for groups and the return schedule

On Friday, at the end of the course, you need to have

Five minute presentation about your program (idea, motivation, goals, technology used, what was actually implemented etc.)

Five minute demonstration of your working program

= Total presentation time of 10 minutes

Done your wiki page and linked it to this one. Use this or this as an example

Group members

Idea

Motivation

Features

Tech

Some explanatory charts optionally

Your project source binaries as wiki, no need to upload source code

In a week (before 23:59 4.2.2012) send an email to Antti Knutas ( firstname.lastname@lut.fi ), with:

Six page report of your project (also upload to wiki), including:

Project introduction, motivation (justify the need for your app!)

Functionality and features

High points of your technical design

Reflection (how did your brainstorming go, how did you end up with the idea, how did you approach the developing process, how did the code camp method work for you?)

Conclusion (consider where your project could head next, what kind of use and features would the fully completed app have?)

One page poster about your project (see examples from previous years, also upload to wiki)

Email has to have topic [CC2013] Group X (for example: [CC2013] Group 2)

Include project source code (remove binaries in bin and opt!) and the project report document in the email

Don't upload project source to the wiki, only the report, poster and binaries

Considering uploading your app to the store for extra points and include a link to your app

Include link to your wiki page in the email

On Thursday 7.2.

Come to your reserved feedback time slot, which will be available in the afternoon

Before March 1st, consider signing up your team in one major Imagine Cup category (or the Windows Phone Challenge)

See the details and links: http://www.imaginecup.com/

The feedback day for the reports will be on the Thursday 7.2. in the afternoon. Attending the feedback day and also giving a verbal report is mandatory. Time reservation link will be announced.

Imagine Cup

Imagine Cup Home

Competetion Theme

Competetions Overview

Discussion and the Q&A

Q&A
Q: How can I move elements manually in WPF?
A: This might work: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4214155/wpf-easiest-way-to-move-image-to-x-y-programmatically
Q: How does the USB boot work with the hard disks?
A: Press F12 until you have reached the boot option menu after power on. Then choose the UEFI USB boot option.
Q: Does the Razor MVC have a design view?
A: No, not in the same sense as in the old ASP.NET. However, check out Page Inspector.
Q: How to add custom parameters to ActionLink?
A: Check out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7024281/mvc-3-append-get-parameters-on-a-actionlink

FAQ

What are recommended skills/requirements for code camp ?

Programming experience(I hope you all have some…if not..then you'll have one during this code camp) and of course learning INTEREST is the most.

Can I prepare to Code Camp ?

Yes. During code camp week we will brainstorm a software idea, design it and code it. Getting good ideas might sometimes be hard and thinking about different ideas before code camp makes it faster to get into coding part.

I have an exam in Code Camp week ?

You are free to go exam, but code camp in intensive course and idea is to focus coding during the well, so it is recommended you prepare to exam before the code camp week.

Grading ?

Grading 1-5 from

Idea and presentation of the Idea in wiki: 25%

Coding of the implementation: 25%

Presentation: 10%

Code Camp Spirit: 20%

Code camp report 20%

More ?

If you have questions about code camp send email to Antti Knutas (firstname.lastname@lut.fi).

Helpful Links

Windows 8

Getting Started guide

Getting Started Overview

Hands On Labs (exercises)

eBook on building apps

Webcasts on the topic

Windows Phone 8

Windows Phone dev center

Getting Started

How to: Your First App

Windows Phone Jumpstart videos

Windows Phone 7 Programming eBook

What is Code Camp ?

Code Camp is a learning and hacking experience. The code camp approach can be defined as a collaborative learning setting that aims to promote profession-oriented skills. In code camp, the term camp refers to a situation where students assemble and stay a while together. The term code refers to coding, i.e. writing computer programs.

Registration

Registration link is on the front page.