Transcript Telerik School Academy

Telerik School Academy
Free Training Courses for .NET Software Engineers
Svetlin Nakov
Telerik Corporation
www.telerik.com
About Telerik
What Makes Telerik so Successful?
About Telerik
 What Telerik does?
 Leading vendor of ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight,
WPF and Windows Forms components, ORM,
Reporting, and CMS solutions and VS Plugins
 Headquartered in Bulgaria
 With offices in Boston, Munich and Austin
 About 300 employees – mostly developers
 Employer #1 in Bulgaria
for 2007
 Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
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Telerik School Academy
Free Trainings for .NET Software Engineers
Telerik Academy – Objectives
 Train school students in software engineering
with the .NET technologies, free of charge
 Practical training with lots of practice
 Cutting edge technologies from Microsoft
 Preparation
for the National IT Olympiad
 Categories: software development, Web
development, Web sites, multimedia apps.
 Preparation for the IT test
 3 full days each month, starting
from 11/2010
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Why C# and .NET?
 Many may argue that .NET is not the only
platform for software development
 The leading platforms for development of
serious enterprise software are .NET and Java
 Java is harder to learn and less user-friendly
 PHP / Python / C / C++ / Linux / etc. are nice
platforms and everybody is free to learn them
 Telerik is Microsoft-oriented company, so this is
natural choice for us
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We Train Concepts
 We train concepts, not just technologies
 Senior developers know that language and
platform does not matter
 You are either good developer or lamer
 We train OOP, databases, software
engineering, Web applications, RIA applications
 C# and .NET are good instruments to illustrate
for these concepts in practice
 Once you become a software engineer, you
can easily switch to another platform
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The Trainers
 The principal
trainer
 Svetlin Nakov
 Manager Technical Training,
Telerik Corporation
 10-15 years experience as software
engineer, consultant and trainer
 Author of 5 books about computer programming
 Winner in tens of programming
Olympiads and contests
 PhD in Computer Science
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The Trainers (2)
 Assistant
trainers
 Doncho Minkov
 Junior Technical Trainer at Telerik
 Graduated the Telerik Academy
 Student in Sofia University
 Other trainers from the software industry
 Internal (from Telerik) and external from other
companies
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Training Schedule
C# Fundamentals, Software Engineering, Databases,
Web Technologies, ASP.NET & AJAX, WPF, Silverlight
November 2010
 Introduction to C# Programming
 Sample IT Test for Preparation for the Olympiad
 .NET Framework – Technology Overview
 C# Language Overview – Part I – Expressions,
Statements, Loops, Arrays, …
 C# Language Overview – Part II – Objects,
Strings, Exceptions, Collections, …
 Object-Oriented Programming with C# –
Defining Classes and Advanced OOP
 Practical Project: “Triple” Game (in teams)
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December 2010
 Software Engineering and Team Working
 Sample IT Test for Preparation for the Olympiad
 High-Quality Programming Code
 Software Engineering Fundamentals
 Source Control Systems and Team Working
 Figuring out a Good Project for the Olympiad
 Setting-up Teams and Projects
 Google Code, Project Locker, CodePlex, etc.
 Projects Mentoring (Individual Attention)
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January 2011
 Databases, SQL Server and ORM
Engines
 Sample IT for Preparation for the IT Olympiad
 Databases, SQL and MS SQL Server – RDBMS,
SQL SELECT, Joins, Aggregate Functions,
Grouping, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, …
 Entity Framework – ORM Concepts, Using
DataContext for CRUD Operations, Joins
 Practical Project: Implementing a Database
Processing Application with SQL Server and
Entity Framework (in teams)
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February 2011
 HTML and Web Technologies
 Sample IT Test for Preparation for the Olympiad
 Web Technologies Basics – HTTP and WWW
 HTML Basics – HTML, Images, Tables, Forms, …
 CSS Basics – Creating and using CSS Styles,
Using Firebug and IE Developer Toolbar
 JavaScript Basics and Accessing DOM
 Practical Project: Creating a Web Site by Web
Design Given – Slice and Dice (in teams)
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March 2011
 ASP.NET and AJAX
 Sample IT Test for Preparation for the Olympiad
 ASP.NET Web Forms – Basic Concepts
 ASP.NET Data Binding and Data Controls,
Accessing SQL Server with Entity Framework
 ASP.NET Advanced Topics – Master Pages,
Sessions, Membership, etc.
 ASP.NET AJAX, AJAX Control Toolkit
 Practical Project: Creating a Data-Driven
ASP.NET Web Application (in teams)
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April 2011
 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
 Sample IT Test for Preparation for the Olympiad
 WPF Basics – XAML Text, Images, Graphics,
Animations, Basic Controls
 WPF Data Binding and Data-Bound Controls
 Creating Data-Driven WPF Applications –
Integrating Entity Framework and WPF
 Practical Project: Creating a Data-Driven WPF
Application (in teams)
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May 2011
 Silverlight
 Sample IT Test for Preparation for the Olympiad
 Silverlight Basics – XAML, RIA, XBAP Apps and
Asynchronous Programming
 WCF RIA Services – Accessing External Data
 Creating Data-Driven Silverlight Applications –
Integrating Entity Framework and Silverlight
 Practical Project: Creating a Data-Driven
Silverlight Application (in teams)
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May 2011 (Again)
 Preparation
for the IT Olympiad
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Sample IT Test for Preparation for the Olympiad
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Projects Mentoring
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Assisting the Students in Creating their Projects
for the Olympiad
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Making the Projects to Complain to the
Requirements
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Presentation Skills – Developing Presentation
Skills and Preparing Good Presentations
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Requirements for
the Students
Requirements for All Trainees
 High school students only
 Teachers accepted by exception
 Basic
computer skills
 We don’t teach computer literacy
 Basic
English skills
 Ability to read technical
documentation is enough
 Serious
attitude and high
motivation!
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Organizations Issues
How the Trainings are Organized?
The Venue
 Finding a venue for these trainings
is a big
problem
 Currently we use the National Center for
Preparation of Students for Olympiads
 Accommodation capacity: up to 60 people
 Training lab capacity: up to 80-90 students
 We are looking for hosting school / university /
training venue (could be outside of Sofia)
 Contact Svetlin Nakov if you have an offer
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Training as a Competition
 In case we don't have large enough venue
 How we could decide which students to train
and which not?
 We don't want to train the most skillful
attendees, but the most motivated ones
 Solution: turn the training into competition
 Mandatory homework after each training session
 People not submitted the entire homework
within the deadline will not participate further
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How to Apply?
 To apply for Telerik Academy program visit
its
official Web site and follow the instructions:
http://schoolacademy.telerik.com
 Join the official discussion
group:
http://groups.google.bg/group/it-olymp
 Contacts:
[email protected]
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Telerik School Academy
Questions?
http://schoolacademy.telerik.com