.NET Code Camp 2013-14

Code Camp Week: Monday 9.12. - Friday 13.12.2013 Room no: 6218

CT30A9301 Code Camp on Platform Based Application Development (4 cr)

News & Notes

Course is about to start!

Code Camp Week

Location 6218 basement computer lab

Start time on Monday 9.12.2013 at 10:30

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
08:15	Finishing presentations / testing demos
09:15	Idea brainstroming and group formation	Coding	Coding	Coding	Presentations
10:15	Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 tech briefing	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	Progress reports in 6218 and then sauna! (at the building six rooftop sauna)	Coding	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	Ball Murder	Teemu Hokkanen	Rasmus Halsas	Niklas Nygren	Arttu Urpalainen
Group 2	Unnamed	Kalle Kareinen	Tuomas Kuusisto	Arttu Tolvanen	Tatu Huttunen
Group 3	Jorma Uotisen kalakauppa	Janne Tallqvist	Antti Herala	Hanna Salopaasi	Sami Tarkiainen
Group 5	Paavo	Tatu Virta	Lassi Lääti	Otto Laitinen	Teemu Huovinen	Oskar Sonninen

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 OR a public link to your Git or Mercurial repository

In a week (before 23:59 17.12.2013) send an email to Antti Knutas ( firstname.lastname@lut.fi ), with:

Your team's project report: Download and fill a competition application from http://www.imaginecup.com .

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 Wednesday 18.12.

Come to your reserved feedback time slot, which can be reserved here: http://doodle.com/wu4zkdpwr8ye8vsf

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 Wednesday 18.12. in the afternoon.

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

How to Create Your First Windows 8 App (start learning here)

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

Windows Phone 8 Emulator on VMWARE

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.