WP7(Windows Phone 7 Code Camp 2011

Code Camp Week: Monday 17.10 - Friday 21.10.2011 Room no: Basement 6218

CT30A9300 Code Camp on Communications Engineering (4 cr)

This week's theme is utilizing open APIs available in Finland. ( see: http://apps4finland.fi/fi/en and http://apps4finland.fi/fi/datakatalogi ) Also, as a new theme the target is to get your app published all the way to the marketplace.

News & Notes

The Code camp starts at 10:00 with short introduction to the course and will be continued with the basics of WP7 programming.

Social evening starts at 18:00 at (location will be mentioned later).

Please contact Bishal Raj Karki (bishal.karki@lut.fi) for any questions or queries.

The classroom 6218 is in use by other IT course from 14:15 to 17:15. Otherwise it is free for us to use. So it is not available during that time. The official secondary location for us is the classroom 6325.

A short demo about marketplace publishing will be given at 13:00 on Wednesday.

The phones are generally available during the marked “coding” hours (09:30 - 14:00 and 17:00 - 20:30). If you really need one right away, fire off an email to Antti Knutas. firstname.lastname@lut.fi .

If you are unable to get into the classroom, call Antti Knutas (0408270139).

Wiki access is now open. Please update your group page with your project information, the slideshow you're going to present at the demo and the project sources. You can see examples for group pages from previous code camps.

The return address for reports is firstname.lastname@lut.fi (Antti Knutas). Please put “[WP7CC-2011] Group X” (X is your group number) as the email topic.

Code Camp Week

Location 6218 Basement Lab
Demos and presentations in 6325 on Friday

Start time on Monday 17.10.2011 at 10:00

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
08:15	-	Coding	Coding	Coding	Code Finalizing
10:00	Introduction to Code Camp & WP7 Basics	Coding	Coding	Coding	Code complete
12:00	Lunch	Coding	Coding	Coding	Demo @ 6325
13:00	Group Formation	Coding	WP7 Marketplace How-To Presentation	Coding	Demo @ 6325
14:15	Idea Development	Lunch / Dinner (classroom not available)	Lunch / Dinner (classroom not available)	Lunch / Dinner (classroom not available)	Closing @ 6325
18:00	Social event and sauna(Idea Presentation) at LUT 66xx sauna	Coding	Coding	Coding
02:00	Coding	Coding	Deadline style Coding	Feedback

Presentations

Some Short Words About Cloud Hosting by Antti Knutas

Feedback times

To be updated after the code camp.

Groups

Group	Application	Name 1	Name 2	Name 3
LUT1	TEAM NAME	Student 1	Student 2	Student 3
LUT2	Librarian	Student 1	Student 2	Student 3
LUT3	TEAM NAME	Student 1	Student 2	Student 3
LUT4	TEAM NAME	Student 1	Student 2	Student 3
LUT5	TEAM NAME	Student 1	Student 2	Student 3

WP7 CodeCamp Minimal Requirements

More requirements coming up later

XAP Application must be created in

either Silverlight

Application must have either Panorama control or pivot control(for UI)

Application must include multiple screens and transitions between screens.

Application must preserve state so that input data on the screen does not get lost after call/camera interruptions (Tombstoning).

or XNA Game Studio

Game must use accelerometer, touch control, GPS etc

Game must preserve state when call or other interruption(camera, home key pressed) occurs, so that game wont restart from the very beginning after the call(Tombstoning).

Game must have multiple play levels.

Game should store user credentials(nick, game points/scores, current game level etc) and must provide the list of top scorers.

Discuss

Discuss coding etc. problems

IRC : irc.freenode.net

#lut-codecamp

Forums ⇒ will be there soon!!

Skype

FAQ

What are recommended skills/requirements for code camp ?

Participation in any of previous code camps on .NET

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 is intensive course and idea is to focus on coding during the week, 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: 15%

Coding of the implementation: 40%

Presentation: 10%

Code Camp Spirit: 20%

Code camp report 15%

More ?

If you have questions about code camp send email to bishal.karki@lut.fi.

Links

Some basic Tutorials links: . C#.net:

Link1: Visual C# .NET Programming

Link2: C# Language Syntax

Link3: Data types in C#

Link4: Property in C# class

Link5: C# sample for basic file operations

Link6: C# sample for retrieving html content from any websites

Link7: C# Guided Tour

ASP.net:

Link1: ASP.NET tutorials

Link2: ASP.NET tutorials for beginners

Link3: ASP.NET Tutorial This is quite good but the backend script language used is VB. still you can get idea for c# as well..not much difference.

Link4: ASP.NET tutorials for beginners

Link5: Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial

Link6: ScottGu's Blog

Ajax:

Link1: Ajax tutorials

Link2: 2010Microsoft official AJAX web site

Link3: Microsoft AJAX learning videos

Link4: Microsoft AJAX Control Toolkit Samples

Windows Phone 7 Programming:

Absolute phone 7 getting started

Phone 7 videos

Silverlight for Windows phone7

XNA Framework for Phone 7

Phone 7 App hub

More will appear here soon

XML:

Link1: Xml tutorials for beginners

Link2: A Beginners Guide to Creating and Displaying Your First XML Document.

Link3: XML Tutorial

Link4: XML Basics

CSS:

Link1: CSS Quick Tutorial

Link2: CSS Structure and Rules

Link3: CSS Properties

Link4: Linking Style Sheets to HTML

Link5: Displaying XML with CSS

Silverlight4:

Silverlight 4 getting started

Link2:

Link3:

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Link5:

Expression Blend:

Link1:

Link2:

Link3:

Link4:

Link5:

Database:

Link1:

Link2:

Link3:

Link4:

Link5:

MS SQL:

Link1:

Link2:

Link3:

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Link5:

LINQ:

Link1:

Link2:

Link3:

Link4:

Link5:

http://www.avlade.com/WindowsPhone/

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

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