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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.
Code Camp Week @ Location 6428 Windows Classroom
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
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10:15 | Intro | Intro | 10:00 Coding | 10:00 Coding | 10:00 Finalizing the Code |
12:00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | 10:30 Demo Preparation |
13:00 | Intro | ~14:00 Idea Presentation | Coding | Coding | Demo's (15) |
16:00 | Idea Brainstorming | Design | Coding | Coding | Closing |
18:00 | Evening Program | Coding | Coding | Coding | Brain Reset |
02:00 | Coding | Coding | Deadline style Coding |
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday .. coding ..
Thursday .. coding ..
Friday, presentation demonstrations
Group | Application | Name 1 | Name 2 | Name 3 |
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grp1 | Galaxy Shooter | Yavor Ivelinov Ivanov | Joonas Aijala | Bishal Raj Karki |
grp2 | NinjaGame | Niko Kurvinen | Oskar Sonninen | Mikko Kaistinen |
grp3 - WINNER | MadBoxing | Janne Parkkila | Rostislav Malevich | Tuomas Kaittola |
grp4 | Awesome Jungle | Antti Knutas | Li Aoke | Jifeng Xing |
grp5 | S-Fight | Matti Bragge | Anssi Salo |
Please put your questions/programming problems here in this sections. We will try to solve it collaboratively. Teemu will also be reviewing/answering these questions remotely once a day.
After you put the questions here please do email me once at bishal.karki@lut.fi
Grading 1-5 from
Course feedback survey will be published here. All students are wished to answer to the questionnaire as it helps developing the course. Course queationnaire
Students may check what kind of learners they are by answering the questions in the following questionnaire
Programming experience.
.NET basics from our previous code camp or otherwise
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.
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.
If you have questions about code camp send email to the organizers. bishal.karki@lut.fi
XNA programming guide, class libraries, etc. XNA related: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb200104.aspx
Video tutorials from http://creators.xna.com/
Introduction: http://creators.xna.com/en-US/education/gettingstarted/bgintro/chapter1
2D Game Tutorial: http://creators.xna.com/en-US/education/gettingstarted/bg2d/chapter1
3D Game Tutorial (This is probably not the best kind of game to do during codecamp): http://creators.xna.com/en-US/education/gettingstarted/bg3d/chapter1
XNA 101: http://www.xnavideotutorial.com/modules/XNA_101/
Basic Tutorials:
Action RPG Tutorial: http://mindcemetery.com/Articles/default.html
Also, check out XNA forums: http://forums.xna.com/forums/
Check:
creators.xna.com - xna creators club
codeplex.com - lots of open source
blogs.msdn.com/shawnhar-in-depth stuff about XNA
www. charlespetzold.com/phone - free book about WP7