Otso Case CodeCamp - Winter 2015

CT30A9301 Code Camp on Platform Based Application Development (4 cr)
Week 50, 7.12.2015 - 11.12.2015
Location: LUT computer lab 6218
Start: 7.12.2015 at 10AM

Brainstorm and bring out your most creative ideas for Insurance business sector ! Develop new service for Customer feedback collection by using laptops, tablets, mobiles, camera’s, interfaces etc… What's the most creative service and pay also attention for the user interface design, architecture, integration and process automation you can implement with these devices – the service could be either web application or mobile apps.

Platform: Cross-platform mobile with JavaScript and PhoneGap (see http://phonegap.com/ ) Programming language: JavaScript with the PhoneGap and jQuery Mobile libraries. Theme: Solving a business case and presenting a practical demo with the assigned platform and programming language.

Is your JavaScript rusty, or do you not have much experience? Start with these tutorials:

Completely new to web pages? Codecademy's web page tutorial: https://www.codecademy.com/en/skills/make-a-website AND interactive website tutorial: https://www.codecademy.com/en/skills/make-an-interactive-website

Rusy with JavaScript? Codecademy's JavaScript basics with an interactive tutorial: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/javascript

New to jQuery? Codecademy's jQuery tutorial: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/jquery

jQuery Mobile tutorial: https://learn.jquery.com/jquery-mobile/getting-started/

jQuery Mobile Demos: http://demos.jquerymobile.com/1.4.5/

Phonegap information and tutorials: http://phonegap.com/blog/build/getting-started-with-phonegap-and-phonegap-build/

Course News

Let's get started at 10AM!

Course Tools

Cloud9 dev environment: https://c9.io/

See also http://daniel.favand.net/2014/11/21/developing-ionic-cordova-apps-in-the-cloud-with-cloud9/ (a similar approach, except they use Ionic and Cordova)

Phonegap: http://phonegap.com/

Getting started with Phonegap: http://docs.phonegap.com/getting-started/1-install-phonegap/desktop/

jQuery Mobile: https://jquerymobile.com/

Getting started: https://learn.jquery.com/jquery-mobile/getting-started/

Note: If you prefer any other mobile framework like TopHat or Ionic, you are free to use it for your project. Alternatively, you can make a web page with PHP or Node.JS and have just a mobile-friendly user interface. However, the project must be HTML5 + mobile friendly.

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

Helping Material

Feel free to paste useful links here!

Code Camp Week

Location 6218 basement computer lab

Course starts on Monday at 10:00AM.

Project returns at 1PM on Friday (in the Code Camp week)

Social event on Friday at 4PM in the Otso offce

Group project final returns on the following week

Exact date to be announced

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
08:15	-	Code complete
09:15	-	Coding	Coding	Coding	Presentations complete
10:15	Welcoming presentation: What are Code Camps? Otso Case: The Introduction	Coding	Coding	Coding	Wrapping things up / testing demos
12:00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Wrapping things up / testing demos
13:00	Short Tech Briefing: PhoneGap and jQuery Mobile	Coding	Coding	Coding	Presentations
14:15	Idea brainstorming and group formation / Rapid prototyping	Q&A in Slack	Q&A in Slack	Q&A in Slack	Presentations complete: Winner announced
16:00	Progress reports by all teams	Coding	Coding	Coding	Afterparty
02:00	Coding	Coding	Deadline style Coding and Code complete

Groups

Group	Application	Name 1	Name 2	Name 3	Name 4
Group 1	TeamName	Firstname Lastname	Firstname Lastname	Firstname Lastname	Firstname Lastname
Group 2	TeamName	Firstname Lastname	Firstname Lastname	Firstname Lastname	Firstname Lastname
Group 3	TeamName	Firstname Lastname	Firstname Lastname	Firstname Lastname	Firstname Lastname
Group 4	TeamName	Firstname Lastname	Firstname Lastname	Firstname Lastname	Firstname Lastname
Group 5	TeamName	Firstname Lastname	Firstname Lastname	Firstname Lastname	Firstname Lastname
Group 6	TeamName	Kurosh Farsimadan	Hieu Tran	Lakshmi Prasanna Kuchimanchi	Firstname Lastname

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 one week, (i.e. 7 days from from your final presentations)

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 OR a link to your public repository (good places are Github or Bitbucket)

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).

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

Register at https://goo.gl/97G2rF