Thursday 19.8.2010 - Friday 20.8.2010.

CT10A9900 Summer School on Communications Engineering (2 cr)

Lappeenranta university of Technology course Summer School on Communications Engineering (2 ECTS credits) will be offered for students attending the summer school. Passing the course requires active participation on the Summer School and the Code Camp. Active participation means:

• returned programming assignment at Code Camp (at group's wiki page)
• half-page report of each presentation of the Summer School and workshop

The work done in the code camp will be evaluated after the code camp. All reports on the presentations must be returned to prof. Jari Porras (@lut.fi) no later than one week after the event, August 27th. Code Camp is aimed mainly at students interested in software development. The Camp begins on Thursday evening and lasts for the following 20+ hours. It includes 20+ hours of intensive programming. Each student must sign up for the course in order to get the credits. This is done preferably during Wednesday morning at the registration desk at the student union house lobby.

The best work done during the code camp (based on application, idea or implementation) will be awarded. The “Codecamp spirit” will play a role in award selection also. Code camp spirit is about sharing knowledge between participants, preferring common good to own benefit.

Read this before codecamp: Getting started! (information about the environment to be used)

We have selected IT in construction as the theme of the code camp. Applications handling this themes will be encouraged and will get a special status when deciding success of an application.

Nokia N900 and Maemo application development platform has been selected as the programming environment. Maemo is a development platform to create applications for the Nokia Internet Tablet models, phones and other Maemo compliant handheld devices.

• Bring your own laptops! The number of computers available will be limited, so using your own laptops will help.
• Bring a sleeping bag if you want to sleep at codecamp.
• Some snacks will be available but if you want to eat more - bring your own.
• Showers will be available at all times (and hopefully sauna at some point) so bring a towel.

Maemo is a software platform that is mostly based on open source code and powers mobile devices such as the Nokia N900 Internet Tablet. Maemo platform has been developed by Nokia in collaboration with many open source projects such as the Linux kernel , Debian , GNOME , and many more. http://maemo.org/maemo.org

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.

• Work is done in 3 - 4 person groups. Create your own subpage here where you present your idea and return your application.