Qt for teaching
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[quote author="Stavros Filippidis" date="1276863204"][quote author="QtK" date="1276863107"]I am currently reading the course materials and have found some typo's here and there. May be someone can review it and fix it. [/quote]
I suppose you could make a list of the typo's and send them to Hanne ;)[/quote]
Wouldn't it make sense to have them in a wiki or something like that, so that users can make such corrections themselves?
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[quote author="Andre" date="1278343859"][quote author="Stavros Filippidis" date="1276863204"][quote author="QtK" date="1276863107"]I am currently reading the course materials and have found some typo's here and there. May be someone can review it and fix it. [/quote]
I suppose you could make a list of the typo's and send them to Hanne ;)[/quote]
Wouldn't it make sense to have them in a wiki or something like that, so that users can make such corrections themselves?[/quote]
Yes, this sounds even better! :)
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[quote author="Stavros Filippidis" date="1278344337"][quote author="Andre" date="1278343859"][quote author="Stavros Filippidis" date="1276863204"][quote author="QtK" date="1276863107"]I am currently reading the course materials and have found some typo's here and there. May be someone can review it and fix it. [/quote]
I suppose you could make a list of the typo's and send them to Hanne ;)[/quote]
Wouldn't it make sense to have them in a wiki or something like that, so that users can make such corrections themselves?[/quote]
Yes, this sounds even better! :)[/quote]
Agree! :)
I've now added a "wiki-page for this purpose":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Typos_and_Corrections_to_the_Qt_in_Education_Course_Material. Please go ahead and start adding to it.
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Not quite what I had in mind. I was suggesting to put the materials in such a form that people can edit them in a wiki-like manner so such changes and corrections can be done by the end users directly. Just having a wiki page with errors seems a bit poitless. We already have a bug tracking system that can be used for that, right?
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I just recently discover the Course Material lectures. Well, I don't know who did it, but they are so very good, I just have to say THANK YOU. I started learning Qt from the Qt book, from Qtcentre, and Qt assistant examples. So my knowledge of Qt is somewhat disperse, I try to do something, I go looking for it, and do it, not necessary the easy or the correct way. I didnt know about QSignalMapper, I didn't know lots of widgets and layout details wich are covered in the lectures. They are very well structured, so keep up the good work.
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The course materials are very useful. Like others, I feel it should also be in a wiki format for users to edit / contribute. We should also keep the presentation format as such (i.e easy for instructors to use in a time bound class lecture). The wiki format can focus on "Qt Essentials Curriculum Block".
Could we start a wiki for this? What do you all say?
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viswesr: Just hop into the wiki and get started;-)
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Started a new Wiki "Qt in Education Course Material":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Qt_in_Education_Course_Material.
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On 25th of September I've had a Qt presentation at SFK10 (Software Freedom Kosova 2010) Conference ("http://www.kosovasoftwarefreedom.org/":http://www.kosovasoftwarefreedom.org/) at University of Prishtina in Kosovo.
Last year (SFK09) I had similar Qt presentation but this year I've been more focused on live-coding (I've created a small application on Linux and tested in on a Nokia 5800), demos of my apps and Qt Quick.
It was great because:
The room was full!
In the audience there were University professors that teach programming and they were really impressed by the live coding part!
At the next day I received an email from one of the professors that was present during my speech offering me to make a more technical presentation for University professors maybe later to have a special course for Qt.
I already informed him about Qt in Education, upon my return from Qt Developer Days we will be meeting for further discussion.
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That's very exciting Milot. How was the live coding done? A 5800 connected to a laptop with Qt-Creator?
I've seen a few live coding sessions this year and they were all disasters :O. An OpenCL one where everyone fell asleep and an iPad one where the code/demo didn't work.
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[quote author="xsacha" date="1291356559"]That's very exciting Milot. How was the live coding done? A 5800 connected to a laptop with Qt-Creator?
I've seen a few live coding sessions this year and they were all disasters :O. An OpenCL one where everyone fell asleep and an iPad one where the code/demo didn't work.[/quote]
It went pretty well and the audience loved it. I had two mobile phones with me, a Nokia 5800 and a E63. I had another preloaded application which was a SFK10 schedule on both phones.
During the live coding part I used the simulator that comes with Nokia Qt SDK and of course I installed it on the 5800 and I didn't install on E63, in the other hand I showed the small application that I created before the conference and I compiled and run the application on Linux just to show that it works pretty well.
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Thing is that if you plan to do live coding, do something that you know it will work for sure or you know the context very well , I was doing live coding in free style as well, I asked the audience to come up with something simple for the topics covered and do that, on the other hand if you do porting, make sure you ported that previously and it worked, as I did on my talk.
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Gerolf, yes, two persons at live codind are better then one. It simply allows them to make presentation well.
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On the Herbstcampus in Nuernberg (Germany) (ok, a java and .net conference :-) ) they had a competition. One task to solve (a newsletter app with front end and backend) to be solved with different technologies. They use JEE, Ruby, C#, ... really interisting. And always with explanation and a fixed time frame.
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Gerolf, looks interesting, hehe. Maybe such competitions (but with Qt) will be awesome.