Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS and

JavaScriptCourse 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 HTML, CSS and

JavaScriptComing 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

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

Desktop & Mobile Track Software Academy Curriculum

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Specialties@ the Academy Success Stories@ Telerik

Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS and

JavaScript– ProgramTopics to be covered

Course Program1. Windows 8 Intro, Platform, WinJS

& WinRT2. WinJS async, Classes, Controls,

Navigation3. Accessing files, Storage, App

lifecycle4. Data binding, accessing remote

data5. Implementing MVVM with WinJS6. Contracts, Extensions,

Background tasks7. Modern Design, Styling controls8. Teamwork

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The Trainers Team

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

Trainers Team (4)

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Evaluation A bit different than

other Academy courses

Course Evaluation 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

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Pass / Excellence / Fail Criteria

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

Teamwork 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

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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)

A shared account will be provided If your team does not want to make

an account

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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

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://forums.academy.telerik.com/questions/desktop-development/windows-8-apps-with-html-css-and-js

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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Required Software Software needed for this course:

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

Windows 8 (Desktop + WinRT)

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