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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!)
- Do a Belbin team inventory test and reflect on the composition of your own team!
- Please return the filled out questionnaire to Antti Knutas ( firstname.lastname@lut.fi ).
- Find out more about the roles at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Role_Inventories#Belbin_Team_roles
Course Tools
- Visual Studio Virtual Machines
Helping Material
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 | |
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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 |
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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
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- 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
- 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. Remember to address the business case!
- 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.