Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML

Course Program, Evaluation, Exams

George Georgiev

Telerik Software Academyacademy.telerik.com

Technical Traineritgeorge.net

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Table of Contents What's Coming Next in the Academy?

Course Program The Trainers Team Evaluation

Standard Criteria

Bonuses

Windows Store Developer Account Resources for the Course

Windows 8 Apps with

C# and XAMLComing To The Next Module

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What's Coming Next? 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 (i.e. this course) Short name: Win 8 XAML

Hybrid Mobile Apps

Desktop & Mobile Track Software Academy Curriculum

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Specialties@ the Academy

Success Stories@ Telerik

Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML

Topics to be covered

Course Program1. Store Apps with C# & XAML Intro,

Asynchronous Programming with C#

2. UI Controls, Gestures, Pages, Navigation

3. Accessing files, Storage, App lifecycle

4. Data binding, Accessing remote data

5. Building a Store App from scratch using MVVM, Devices, Push notifications

6. Implementing a design for a Store App

7. Working with Contracts & Devices8. Porting Windows 8 App to

Windows 8 Phone

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The Trainers Team

George Georgiev Technical Trainer @ Telerik Corp. Informatics and IT competitions

contestant and winner Graduate from the third season of

Telerik Software Academy E-mail: georgi.georgiev [at]

telerik.com Blog: http://itgeorge.net

Trainers Team (1)

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Trainers Team (2) Doncho Minkov

Technical Trainer @ Telerik Software Academy

Informatics competitions contestant

Graduate from the first season of Telerik Software Academy

Email: doncho.minkov [at] telerik.com

Web site and blog: http://minkov.it Twitter: @donchominkov 10

Guest Trainers (1) Tsvyatko Konov

Technical Lead @ Telerik WinCore Team

Software Developer and Lecturer .NET, WinRT, Windows Phone, etc.

Co-author of "Intro Programming with Java" and "Intro Programming with C#"

Blog: www.konov.me 11

Guest Trainers (2) George Atanasov

XAML Front-end Developer @ Telerik xLabs

IT competitions contestant and winner

Co-author of DriveFreeZ Design, UX and UI implementation

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Evaluation A bit different than

other Academy courses

Course Evaluation Evaluation components

Course Project – 75% Homework – 15% Homework evaluation – 5%

3 peer reviews per homework (excellent, OK, bad)

Attendance in class – 5% Bonuses

Forums activity – bonus up to 10%

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Pass / Excellence / Fail Criteria

Criteria for pass / pass with excellence / fail Pass with excellence

Very high Course Project results App in Windows Store

Pass Average total results App in Windows Store

Fail Low total results or low exam results

or no App in Windows Store after deadline

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Course Project The Course Project is the main assessment for this course Build a finished Windows Store App

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, finih your course project (you should start earlier)

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Course Project Course Project evaluation and deliverables You submit your project no later

than 23:59:59 on 4 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

Final course results will be published around the 3 November 2013

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Homework Peer Reviews

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

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Check Your Presence 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)

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Windows Store Developer Account

You need it to upload your app

Store Developer Account

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) 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)

You can share accounts with other students

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ResourcesWhat We Need in Addition to this

Course Content?

Course Web Site & Forums

Register for the "Telerik Academy Forums":

Discuss the course exercises with your colleagues

Find solutions for the exercises

Share source code / discuss ideas

Win 8 Apps with C# & XAML official web site: 23

http://academy.telerik.com/student-courses/software-technologies/windows-eight-store-applications/about

http://forums.academy.telerik.com/desktop-development/windows-8-apps-with-xaml

Telerik IntegratedLearning System (TILS)

The Telerik Integrated Learning System (TILS) www.telerikacademy.com

Important resource for all students

Homework submissions

Homework peer reviews

Presence cards with barcode

Reports about your results

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telerikacademy.com/Courses/Courses/Details/88

Required Software Software needed for this course:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012/2013 or Visual Studio Express 2012 (free version of VS 2012)

Note: If you use Visual Studio 2013, be sure to download the one for "Windows 8 Apps"

Windows 8 (Desktop + WinRT)

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Additional Resources XAML knowledge is expected from you Desktop Apps with WPF & XAML

Take a look at this year's other Windows Store App Course Windows 8 Store Apps with HTML, C

SS and JS

There will be a lot of things in common

Doc roadmap for Windows Store apps with C# and XAML 26

Win 8 XAML : Course Intro

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