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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

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 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 Name 4
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 Project name Name 1 Name 2 Name 3 Name 4


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

FAQ

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

Open Data Sources

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.