This document provides an overview of a cross-platform mobile development course offered by Telerik Academy. The course will cover HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery Mobile, and PhoneGap to teach students how to build mobile apps for multiple platforms. Students will complete homework assignments and a final project. The best students will receive a certificate and have an opportunity to win awards. The course will be taught by experienced developers and trainers from Telerik.

1. Cross-Platform Mobile
Development
Course Overview
Doncho Minkov
Technical Trainer
Telerik Corporation
www.telerik.com

2. Table of Contents
1. About Telerik
2. Course Objectives
3. Course Contents
4. Exams
5. Resources
6. Requirements for All Trainees
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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
 Offices in USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Australia
 450 employees – mostly developers
 Employer #1 in Bulgaria for 2010
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5. About Telerik Academy
 Telerik Academy is an initiative Telerik for
training of young software engineers
 Four main streams
 Software Academy
 .NET Essentials
 QA Academy
 Developer Support
 School Academy
 Kids Academy
 Student Courses 5

6. Academy at a Glance
Kids Academy
University Courses School Academy
Software Academy
C# Fundamentals
.NET Essentials QA Academy Developer-Support
Job at Telerik
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7. Free Courses for Students
Courses for Students
Cross-Platform Mobile Native Mobile Development
Applications (iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7)
(starting October, FMI) (starting March)
Web Applications
High-Quality Programming Code
with ASP.NET MVC
(starting March)
(starting October, FMI)
Web Client-Side Development XAML Development
(starting October) (starting March)
Search Engine Optimization Web Front-End Development
(starting November) (starting March)
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8. About the Course
 Cross-Platform Mobile Development objectives
 Providing concepts, technologies
and skills for development of
mobile applications
 Mobile applications for the most popular OS
 Using web standards like HTML5, JavaScript, CSS
 iOS, Android, WP7, Blackberry, Bada etc.
 Targets school and university students
 Prepares for a career in mobile development
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9. Requirements to the Students
 Basic web front-end skills
 You should know how to make a Web page
 Seriousness
 Put enough effort and time for this course
 Desire to develop as mobile developer
 Willingness to learn HTML5, JavaScript and
Mobile development technologies
 English language
 All training materials are in English
(intentionally, Telerik Academy policy) 9

10. Trainers Team

11. Trainers Team
 Svetlin Nakov, PhD
 Manager Technical Training,
Telerik Corp., Telerik Academy
 20 years software development
experience
 10+ years experience as trainer
 Author of 6 books
 Speaker of hundreds of events
 E-mail: svetlin.nakov [at] telerik.com
 Web site / Blog: www.nakov.com 11

12. Trainers Team (2)
 Doncho Minkov
 Technical Trainer,
Telerik Corp, Telerik Academy
 Student in Sofia University
 Software Engineering
 Contestant in the Informatics competitions
 Graduate of the first season of
Telerik Software Academy
 Email: doncho.minkov [at] telerik.com
 Blog: http://minkov.it

13. Trainers Team (3)
 Nikolay Kostov
 Technical Trainer,
Telerik Corp., Telerik Academy
 Student in Sofia University
 Computer Science
 Contestant in the IT competitions
 Graduate of the second season of
Telerik Software Academy
 Email: nikolay.kostov [at] telerik.com
 Blog: http://nikolay.it/

14. Trainers Team (4)
 Alexander Gyoshev
 Senior Front-End
Developer, Telerik
Corp., KendoUI Team
 Email: alexander.gyoshev [at] telerik.com,
 Blogs:
 http://blogs.telerik.com/alexandergyoshev/
 http://blog.gyoshev.net
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15. Trainers Team (5)
 Dimo Dimov
 Senior Front-End
Developer, Telerik
Corp., KendoUI Team
 E-mail: dimo.dimov [at] telerik.com
 Blog: http://blogs.telerik.com/dimodimov/
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16. Trainers Team (6)
 Ivan Zhekov
 Front-End
Developer, Tele
rik Corp.
 E-mail: ivan.zhekov [at] telerik.com
 Web Site: joneff.info
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17. Trainers Team (7)
 Kamen Bundev
 Senior Front-End
Developer, Telerik
Corp., KendoUI Team
 E-mail: kamen.bundev [at] telerik.com
 Twitter: @bundyo
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18. Course Curriculum

19. Curriculum
1. Course Overview
2. HTML Fundamentals
3. HTML5 Fundamentals
4. CSS and CSS3
5. Workshop: usability for mobile devices
7. Basic JavaScript
8. JavaScript OOP
9. jQuery Fundamentals
10. Accessing External Data
11. jQuery Mobile
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20. Curriculum (2)
12. Workshop: building UI with jQuery Mobile
13. PhoneGap and Android SDK
14. "Hello PhoneGap" Application
15. PhoneGap Development
16. Hardware Management
17. Workshop: Development with PhoneGap and
jQuery Mobile
18. Game Development HTML5 and PhoneGap
19. Practical Project – Live Demo
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21. Course Schedule

22. Course Schedule
 FMI, hall 101
 Every Thursday, 19:00-22:00
 Start: 13th of October 2011
 Telerik Academy Big Hall
 Every Tuesday, 18:00-21:00
 Start: 25th of October 2011
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23. Assessment
Exams and Grades

24. Assessment
 The course exams consist of everyday
homework and a practical course project
 The homework will be reviewed every week
 The practical course project will be reviewed by
the trainers team
 The best students will get a certification
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25. Assessment (3)
 Evaluation criteria
 75% of the final score will be your project score
 25% of the final score will be from homework
Score Grade
85-100 Excellent (6)
70-85 Very Good (5)
55-70 Good (4)
40-55 Average (3)
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26. Homework Assignments
 Homework assignments are due in 1 week
after each lecture
 Submission instructions will be published at
the course Web site
 You can upload your homework at:
http://bit.ly/MobileDevHomeworks
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27. Certification and Awards

28. Certification and Awards
 Best students will get certification and awards
 Certificate of achievement
 Requires all homework assignments and 90% of
the score from the projects
 Signed by the trainers team
 Awards
Sponsor:
 Remarkable results
 Top 5%-10% students
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29. Necessary Software
What Should you Prepare for this Course?
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30. Necessary Software
 HTML Editor
 Notepad
 Notepad++
 Development Tools
 Eclipse IDE
 Dreamweaver
 Android SDK
 PhoneGap

31. Recommended Books

32. Recommended Books
 "Designing with Web Standards",
Jeffrey Zeldman, New Riders Press, 2005,
ISBN 9780321616951
 "PPK on JavaScript",
Peter Paul-Koch, New Riders Press, 2006,
ISBN 9780321423306
 "HTML & XHTML: The Definitive
Guide, Sixth Edition", Chuck Musciano,
Bill Kennedy, O'Reilly, 2006, ISBN
9780596527327
 PhoneGap Getting Started –
http://www.phonegap.com/start/
 PhoneGap Wiki – http://wiki.phonegap.com
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33. Please Register for the Course!
 All attendees of the course should register at:
http://mobiledevcourse.telerik.com
 We need registration
to maintain
communication will all attendees
 Regarding schedule, projects, assignments, etc.
 Ask your questions at:
academy@telerik.com
groups.google.com/group/mobile-development-course
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34. Cross-Platform Mobile
Development Course
Questions?
http://mobiledevcourse.telerik.com