Open Data and Green IT CodeCamp - Spring 2015

Code Camp Week: Monday 2.3. - Friday 6.3.2015 Room no: 6218

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

Learn to develop in a web and JavaScript environment and innovate on using open data sources or develop ideas on how IT could be green! Get a first touch on what the so called “big data” might mean. Create new data input environments or harness exisiting data sources for web mashups! This year's Open Data CodeCamp has a different topic from previous year, so both courses can be included in your curriculum (if your curriculum allows you to include multiple CodeCamp courses).

This week's theme is citizen science.

News & Notes

Course pages and signup are open! Sign up HERE if you already have not done so.

Course Tools

We use cloud development environment at Cloud9. Create your user account at https://c9.io/ beforehand, if possible!

We also are experimenting with new communication platforms.

Sign up at Slack chat platform at https://lut-codecamps.slack.com/signup to communicate in a shared platform!

Also create your team page in the CGCS collaboration system http://codecamps.cloudapp.net/

Code Camp Week

Location 6218 basement computer lab

Course starts on Monday 2nd of March at 10:00AM.

First idea presentations are at 5PM on Monday at the LUT beach sauna

There will be a sauna and social event on Monday at the LUT beach sauna, after the project presentations

Project returns at 9AM on Friday (in the Code Camp week)

Group project final returns on the following week (end of week 11)

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
08:15	-	Wrapping things up / testing demos
09:15	-	Coding	Coding	Coding	Presentations
10:15	Welcoming presentation: What are Code Camps? Theme Lecture: Why Node.JS? Theme Lecture: Open Data	Short intoduction into Big Data (And Large Data, and what's the difference)	Coding	Coding	Presentations complete: Winner announced
12:00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Closing
13:00	Tech briefing: Node.JS + REST interfaces + REST Node.JS tutorial	Coding	Coding	Coding
14:15	Idea brainstorming and group formation / Coding	CGCS intro and test / Coding	Coding	Coding
17:00	Progress reports at the LUT beach sauna and then sauna!	Coding	Coding	Coding
02:00	Coding	Coding	Deadline style Coding and Code complete

Groups

Group	Application	Name 1	Name 2	Name 3	Name 4
Group 1	SportFinder	Ibrahim Olanigan	Mansoureh Rousta	Veronica Morales	Manuel Delgado
Group 2	CitizenApp	Abedin Anowarul	Adekola Adebayo	Rajeshwari Chatterjee	Sumeet Thombre
Group 3	Raritan	Ashraf Abdo	Dimitar Minovski	Niklas Kolbe
Group 4	LocalEat	Anar Bazarhanova	Khan Mohammad Habibullah	Melanie Pittumbur	Julien Dhallenne
Group 5	GreenPackTage	Ornela Bardhi	Dagnachew Temesgene	Abdullateef Oyedeji	Jonathan Pucher
Group 6	Lecture notes pro 2000	Markus Salminen	Juri Pesonen	Kalle Koponen

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.)

Proposed talk topics

Design plan

How you used open data, and which sources

Experiences about the platform

One or two things in the source code that you are most proud of and think that might be useful to others

Five minute demonstration of your working program

Proposed talk topics

The application flow and features

The user experience with the application

Showcase your best features and explain how they are cool or useful

= Total presentation time of 10 minutes

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

Group members

Idea

Motivation

Features (with screen captures!)

Which kind of technology, platforms, access methods you have used

Some explanatory charts (optionally)

Your project folder compressed and uploaded to the wiki OR a public link to your Git or Mercurial repository

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

Five page project report on the same themes as your wiki pages. Write more on these themes and also put the content back on your wiki page.

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

Email has to have topic [ODCC2015] Group X (for example: [ODCC2015] Group 2)

Include just links to the files in the email. Upload the actual files to your wiki page.

Each member in your group IS REQUIRED to give feedback about the course as part of the course requirements. (link TBA)

Discussion and the Q&A

See our new team platform for team status (link upcoming)

Go to our new Slack discussion platform at https://lut-codecamps.slack.com ! It's very useful.

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

http://nodejs.org/

http://nodejs.org/documentation/tutorials/

https://github.com/request/request

https://github.com/simov/purest

http://socket.io/

http://cwbuecheler.com/web/tutorials/2013/node-express-mongo/

Node beginner book: http://www.nodebeginner.org/

Sample projects

https://github.com/Japskua/lut-rest-lecture

https://github.com/aknutas/Voted (not good for using as a direct template for your project, it is for an old version of Express; see https://github.com/strongloop/express/wiki/Migrating-from-3.x-to-4.x for more information)

Open Data Sources

Public transport timetables and real-time data for Helsinki region

http://developer.reittiopas.fi

Public transport timetables and real-time data for Tampere

http://developer.publictransport.tampere.fi

ITS Factory: Innovation, test and development environment for Intelligent Transport Systems

http://wiki.itsfactory.fi/index.php/ITS_Factory_Developer_Wiki

Helsinki region data portal

http://www.hri.fi

UK government data portal

http://data.gov.uk/

US government data portal

http://www.data.gov/

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.