1. Course Program, Evaluation, Exams George Georgiev Telerik Software Academy academy.telerik.com Technical Trainer itgeorge.net

2. 2  What's Coming Next in the Academy?  Course Program  The Trainers Team  Evaluation  Standard Criteria  Bonuses  Windows Store Developer Account  Resources for the Course

3. Coming To The Next Module

4. 4  The Academy is now split in two tracks  Desktop & Mobile Track  Web Development Track  Welcome to the Desktop & Mobile Track!  Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript (i.e. this course)  Short name: Win 8 JS / Win 8 WinJS  WPF & XAML  Windows 8 with XAML

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6. Topics to be covered

7. 1. Windows 8 Intro, Platform, WinJS & WinRT 2. WinJS async, Classes, Controls, Navigation 3. Accessing files, Storage, App lifecycle 4. Data binding, accessing remote data 5. Implementing MVVM with WinJS 6. Contracts, Extensions, Background tasks 7. Modern Design, Styling controls 8. Teamwork 7

9.  George Georgiev  Technical Trainer @ Telerik Corp.  Informatics and IT competitions contestant and winner  Student in Sofia University  Software engineering  Graduate from the third season of Telerik Software Academy  E-mail: georgi.georgiev [at] telerik.com  Blog: http://itgeorge.net http://itgeorge.net 9

10. A bit different than other Academy courses

11.  Evaluation components  Teamwork – 70 %  Homework – 10 %  Homework evaluation – 10 %  3 peer reviews per homework (excellent, OK, bad)  Attendance in class – 10 %  Bonuses  Forums activity – bonus up to 10 %  Helping new C# students – bonus 11

12.  Criteria for pass / pass with excellence / fail  Pass with excellence  Very high teamwork results  App in Windows Store  Pass  Average total results  App in Windows Store  Fail  Low total results or low exam results 12

13.  Teamwork assignment is the main assessment  No exam, project defense instead  Your app will be evaluated by the lecturers  Build a finished Windows Store App  You will receive your course score when the App is approved for the Store (this could take time)  Teams of 2-3 students  You will receive a full list of project evaluation criteria in a few days  Your team thinks up an idea for a project and implements it 13

14.  Everyone will get feedback for their homework  Everyone will give feedback for few random homework submissions  Students submit homework anonymously  Please exclude your name from the submissions!  For each homework submitted  Students evaluate 3 random homeworks  From the same topic, after the deadline  Homework comments are not obligatory 14

15.  You should check your presence on the barcode reader 3 times a day :  In the morning when lectures begin (~10:30)  After lunch break (~13:30)  When you leave academy halls (~19:00) 15

16. You need it to upload your app

17.  A Store developer account permits you  To upload apps to the Store  To earn money from your apps  Typically paid (80 BGN/year for BG individuals) 80 BGN/year for BG individuals80 BGN/year for BG individuals  You can receive it FREE through DreamSpark  If you don't have a DreamSpark account, request it with an e-mail to academy@telerik.com (don't forget to mention your http://telerikacademy.com username and that your are enrolled in this course) academy@telerik.com http://telerikacademy.com academy@telerik.com http://telerikacademy.com  A shared account will be provided  If your team does not want to make an account 17

18. What We Need in Addition to this Course Content?

19.  Register for the "Telerik Academy Forums":  Discuss the course exercises with your colleagues  Find solutions for the exercises  Share source code / discuss ideas  The Win 8 Apps with JS official web site: 19 http://academy.telerik.com/student- courses/software-technologies/windows-8-store- apps-html-css-javascript/about http://academy.telerik.com/student- courses/software-technologies/windows-8-store- apps-html-css-javascript/about http://forums.academy.telerik.com/questions/de sktop-development/windows-8-apps-with-html- css-and-js http://forums.academy.telerik.com/questions/de sktop-development/windows-8-apps-with-html- css-and-js

20.  The Telerik Integrated Learning System (TILS)  www.telerikacademy.com www.telerikacademy.com  Important resource for all students  Homework submissions  Homework peer reviews  Presence cards with barcode  Reports about your results 20 telerikacademy.com/Courses/Courses/Details/93

21.  Software needed for this course:  Microsoft Visual Studio 2012/2013 or Visual Studio Express 2012 (free version of VS 2012 ) Visual Studio Express 2012Visual Studio Express 2012  Windows 8 (Desktop + WinRT) 21

22. Questions?

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