High-Quality Programming Code Construction

1. High-Quality Programming Code Construction Course Introduction Svetlin Nakov Telerik Corporation www.telerik.com

2. Table of Contents • About Telerik Academy • About the Course • Requirements • Course Curriculum • The Trainers Team • Course Schedule • Assessment • Certification and Awards • Recommended Books

3. About Telerik

4. About Telerik • What Telerik does? • Leading vendor of ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, WPF, Window Phone 7 and ASP.NET MVC components, ORM, Reporting, and CMS solutions and Visual Studio plugins • Headquartered in Bulgaria • With offices in USA, Germany, Australia, India • More than 500 employees – mostly developers • Employer #1 in Bulgaria for 2010 • Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

5. About Telerik Academy • Telerik Academy is an initiative Telerik for training of young software engineers • Software Academy • .NET Essentials, QA Academy, Dev-Support • Student Courses • School Academy • Algo Academy • Kids Academy • Contests and other free initiatives

6. Academy at a Glance Kids Academy School Academy University Courses Algo Academy Software Academy C# Fundamentals Developer Support .NET Essentials QA Academy Job at Telerik Another Job

7. Free Courses for Students Courses for Students @ Telerik Academy High-Quality Code(starting 5 March) Mobile Development(startingOctober) Web Design with HTML5 (starting 13 and 15 March) Web Applicationswith ASP.NET MVC (starting October) Cloud Development (starting 14 March) Windows 8 Development(starting October)

8. About the Course • High-quality programming code course objectives • Fundamental principles and practices for building high-quality software • Focus on the source code • What is high-quality code? • Easy-to-read • Easy-to-understand • Easy-to-modify • Correct behavior

9. Requirements to the Students • Computer programming skills • At least one of the following languages: • C#, Java, C++ or PHP • Object-oriented programming • Abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, exceptions handling • English language • All training materials are in English (intentionally, Telerik Academy policy) • Registration

10. Registration • All students should register for the course at: • Registration is important! • Registration allows the trainers contact you regarding the course projects, exams, etc. • Registered students are assigned to work on one of the course projects • On the link you can find all the materials, videos, homework, etc. http://codecourse.telerik.com

11. Course Curriculum

12. Curriculum • Course Overview. Introduction to High-Quality Programming Code. Entrance Project (05.03.2012) • Fundamentals of Software Engineering (19.03.2012) • Naming Identifiers in the Source Code. Naming Classes, Methods, Variables, Parameters and Other Elements of the Code (12.03.2012) • Designing High-Quality Classes and Class Hierarchies. Best Practices in the Object-Oriented DesignHigh-Quality Methods. Strong Cohesion and Loose Coupling (26.03.2012)

13. Curriculum (2) • Using Variables, Data, Expressions and Constants CorrectlyUsing Control Structures, Conditional Statements and Loops Correctly (02.04.2012) • Correctly Formatting the CodeCode Documentation, Comments and Self-Documenting Code. Code Conventions (09.04.2012) • Software Quality AssuranceTesting and DebuggingUnit Testing. Test-Driven Development (23.04.2012)

14. Curriculum (3) • Defensive Programming. Using Exceptions.Performance Tuning and Code OptimizationRefactoring Existing Code to Improve Its QualityCode Integration (07.05.2012) • Development Tools. IDEs. Change Management Systems. Code Analysis Tools. Automated Testing Tools. Automated Build Tools. Continuous Integration Tools(14.05.2012) • Test Covering the All Studied Topics(21.03.2012) • Course Projects: Assignment, Guidelines and Discussion(28.05.2012)

15. Trainers Team

16. Trainers Team • Svetlin Nakov, PhD • Manager Technical Training • Telerik Corporation • 21 years software development experience • Author of 6 books • Speaker of hundreds of events • E-mail: svetlin.nakov [at] telerik.com • Web site: www.nakov.com

17. Trainers Team (2) • Nikolay Kostov • Technical Trainer • Telerik Corporation • Telerik Academy • 3rd year student in FMI • E-mail: nikolay.kostov [at] telerik.com • Web site: www.nikolay.it

18. Trainers Team (3) • Doncho Minkov • Technical Trainer • Telerik Corporation • Telerik Academy • 4th year student in FMI • E-mail: doncho.minkov [at] telerik.com • Web site: www.minkov.it

19. Trainers Team (4) • Alexander Vakrilov • Software Engineer, Telerik Corporation • Email: alexander.vakrilov [at] telerik.com • Twitter: http://twitter.com/ufsa

20. Trainers Team (5) • Yordan Dimitrov • Team Leader, Team Pulse, Telerik Corporation, www.telerik.com • E-mail: yordan.dimitrov [at] telerik.com • Blog: http://blogs.telerik.com/jordandimitrov/

21. Trainers Team (6) • Tsvyatko Konov • Software engineerTelerik Corporation,www.telerik.com • E-mail: tsvyatko.konov [at] telerik.com • Blog: http://tsvyatkokonov.blogspot.com/

22. Trainers Team (7) • Ilian Iliev • Software engineer,Telerik Corporation,www.telerik.com • Email: ilian [at] ilievdev.net • Blog: http://ilievdev.net

23. Trainers Team (8) • Anton Angelov • Software engineer,Web TeamTelerik Corporation,www.telerik.com • Email: ilian [at] ilievdev.net

24. Course Schedule

25. Course Schedule • Telerik Academy • Every Monday, 19:00-22:00,Telerik Academy Hall • Start: 5th March 2012 • Wedding Mall, 2nd floor • Capacity: 250 places • Located in: Mladost 1A,Alexander Malinov blvd.31

26. Assessment Exams and Grades

27. Assessment • Entrance project  0 … 10 score • Small assignment in C#, PHP, Java or C++ • Checked for correctness only • Homework  0 … 15 score • Test (theory)  0 … 20 score • 40questions (theory) • Final project  0 … 55 score • Refactoring and unit testing of low-quality code • The same language as the entrance project

28. Entrance Projects • Entrance projects aim to check the entrance level of all course attendees • Simple programs to be developed at home • Console applications, no GUI / Web interface • Allowed languages: C#, PHP, Java and C++ • Evaluation: • Projects will be checked for correctness only • Do not care for code quality • Do not create GUI

29. Sample Entrance Projects • Project #1 • Tic-tac-toe Game • 2 players play in the console • Project #2 • Bulls and Cows Game • 2 players play in the console • Project #3 • Hang-Man Game • 2 players play in the console (no visualization)

30. Certification and Awards

31. Certification and Awards • Best students will get certification and awards • Certificate of achievement • Up to 10% of the students will get a certificate • Issued by Telerik Academy • Signed by the trainers team • Awards • Remarkable results • Top 5-10 students Sponsor:

32. Recommended Books

33. Recommended Books Code Complete, 2nd Edition, Steve McConnell, ISBN 0735619670, http://www.cc2e.com Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts, ISBN 0201485672, http://martinfowler.com/ Test Driven Development: By Example, Kent Beck, ISBN 0321146530

34. Contact us • If you have any questions you can contact us: • You can write in our forum: • Other students may help you • You may help other students • We will answer you, too academy@telerik.com http://forums.academy.telerik.com

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