Course Program, Evaluation, Exams Doncho Minkov Telerik Software Academy academy.telerik.com Senior Technical Trainer

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

Coming To The Next Module

4  The Academy is now split in two tracks  Desktop & Mobile Track  Web Development Track  You are in the Desktop & Mobile Track  Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS and JS  WPF & XAML  Windows 8 with C# and XAML  Hybrid Mobile Apps (i.e. this course)

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Topics to be covered

1. Mobile Applications  Types of mobile applications  Ways of development 2. Apache Cordova  Overview 3. Apache Cordova Development Tools  Android with Eclipse  Windows Phone with Visual Studio  iOS with xCode  Simulators 7

4. Telerik Icenium  Developing Hybrid applications with one tool 5. Kendo UI Mobile  Components  Data source  Data-binding  MVVM architecture 6. Architecture of Hybrid Applications  Using Kendo UI templates and views  Using MVVM Architecture 8

7. Permissions and Capabilities  Allowing features to the mobile device 8. Working with Cordova APIs  File System and Storage  Notifications and Events  Media  Contacts 9. Cordova Hardware APIs  Accelerometer, compass, geolocation  Gyroscope, Camera, Network, etc… 9

 Doncho Minkov  Senior hnical Telerik Software Academy  Informatics competitions contestant  Graduate from the first season of Telerik Software Academy  doncho.minkov [at] telerik.com  Web site and blog:

 George Georgiev  Technical Telerik Corp.  Informatics and IT competitions contestant and winner  Graduate from the third season of Telerik Software Academy  georgi.georgiev [at] telerik.com  Blog:

A bit different than other Academy courses

 Evaluation components  Course Project – 70 %  Homework – 15 %  Homework evaluation – 5 %  3 peer reviews per homework (excellent, OK, bad)  Attendance in class – 10 %  Bonuses  Forums activity – bonus up to 10 % 14

 Criteria for pass / pass with excellence / fail  Pass with excellence  Very high Course Project results  App for at least two platforms  Pass  Average total results  App for at least two platforms  Fail  Low total or low exam results or no App in any platform 15

 The Course Project is the main assessment for this course  Build a finished App for at least two platforms  Individually, throughout the course  There will be a deadline for submitting apps to the store (1 month after course is over)  Think up an idea for a project and implement it  You will receive a full list of project evaluation criteria in a few days  Last 3 days of the course – no lectures, finish your course project (you should start earlier) 16

 Course Project evaluation and deliverables  You submit your project no later than 23:59:59 on 11 October 2013  Full, compile-able and executable source code  You submit a link to a (max) 2-minute public video in YouTube, briefly showing your project  The trainers team evaluates your app  Course project results will be published ASAP 17

 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 18

 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) 19

What We Need in Addition to this Course Content?

 Register for the "Telerik Academy Forums":  Discuss the course exercises with your colleagues  Find solutions for the exercises  Share source code / discuss ideas  Hybrid Mobile Applications official web site: 21 courses/software-technologies/hybrid-mobile-apps courses/software-technologies/hybrid-mobile-apps mobile-development mobile-development

 The Telerik Integrated Learning System (TILS)   Important resource for all students  Homework submissions  Homework peer reviews  Presence cards with barcode  Reports about your results 22 telerikacademy.com/Courses/Courses/Details/117

 Software needed for this course:  Any text editor will do  Microsoft Visual Studio 2012/2013 or Visual Studio Express 2012 (free version of VS 2012 ) Visual Studio Express 2012Visual Studio Express 2012  Sublime Text ( )  Notepad++ ( )  Eclipse (  Telerik Icenium ( 23

 This course needs a knowledge base with good understanding of JavaScript and Web services  Take a look at our courses for JavaScript development  JavaScript Frameworks JavaScript Frameworks JavaScript Frameworks  JavaScript Applications JavaScript Applications JavaScript Applications  And our server technologies courses  Database Development Database Development Database Development  Web Services and Cloud Technologies Web Services and Cloud Technologies Web Services and Cloud Technologies 24

Questions?

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