Otso Case CodeCamp - Spring 2015

See official course information at the actual course page.

Course News

Let's get started at 10AM!

The task assignment slides are now published

Tech details document is now published

Same, in very rough English: https://goo.gl/uca6cC (automatic translation, sorry!)

Course Tools

Visual Studio Virtual Machines

Tech Demo Source

Link to Github

Code Camp Week

Location 6218 basement computer lab

Course starts on Monday at 10:00AM.

First idea presentations are at 5PM on Monday at the building six rooftop sauna.

There will be a sauna and social event on Monday at the LUT rooftop sauna, after the project presentations in 6709

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

Group project final returns on the following week

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? Task Introduction: The Otso Case Short Tech Briefing: C# and Windows 8 apps	Coding	Coding	Coding	Presentations complete: Winner announced
12:00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Closing
13:00	Idea brainstorming and group formation / Coding	Coding	Coding	Coding
14:15	Rapid Prototyping	Coding	Coding	Coding
17:00	Progress reports in 6709 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	PaavoInsurances	Otto Laitinen	Joonas Pohjala	Juhana Repo	Tatu Virta
Group 2	Fixurance	Manuel Delgado	Alejandro Antillon	Norismiza Ismail
Group 3	Insurance	Mikko Turunen	Janne Salopaasi	Konstantin Taranov
Group 4	SalesApp	Mansoureh Rousta	Ibrahim Olanigan	Francis
Group 5	SureApp	Isto Sipilä	Fahad Rezwanul Islam	Yongyi Wu	Markku Painomaa
Group 6	MEGACELL	Mika Savolainen	Juuso Perttilä

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

Reserve the final presentation and feedback day time for your group (link TBA)

In a week

Update your wiki page 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)

Project source code

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 Rasmus Halsas or Antti Knutas (firstname.lastname@lut.fi).

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 actual course page.