On February 21th 2012 I will deliver a short lecture about Chrome OS extensions and applications development. The lecture will take place in DevCon 2012. During this lecture you will learn how to develop a simple extension and a simple application for the Chrome OS platform and how to place them for sale at Google Chrome web store.
I have recently started to work on writing a short practical guide that teaches F#. It includes texts and video clips. You can find it at www.FSharpBook.co.il.
On January 29th I will deliver a webinar about Android applications development. You can download the slides and the code. You can find the recording of this webinar at www.anymeeting.com/abelski.
I will be more than happy to get your feedback as comments for this post so I could improve towards the next time.
An article (in Hebrew) that guides how to select a course for learning mobile applications development can be found at http://hit.abelski.com/wordpress/?p=279.
More info about the Android Java Applications course I deliver in HIT can be found at http://www.xperato.com/hit/hitandroid.html.
More info about the PHP Cross Platform Web Applications course I deliver in HIT can be found at http://www.xperato.com/hit/hitphp.html.
You can find a detailed post with video clips that explains how to install the required software tools in order to develop Java applications for the android platform at http://www.lifemichael.com/en/2009/10/android-jump-start-pro/.
On Monday June 11th I will start teaching the ‘PHP Cross Platforms Web Applications’ course in HIT. It is a 180 academic hours course that focuses on PHP and various other related web technologies.
You can find more info together with a contact form at www.xperato.com/hit/hitphp.html.
On March 6th 2012 I will start to deliver a professional course for developing applications on the Android platform. This course is delivered through the external studies unit of HIT. The course includes 28 meetings. The meetings will take place on Tuesdays during the hours 1800-2200.
During the course the students will practice their knowledge in three different ways. Small assignments that aim at acquiring the required programming skills, small practical projects that aim at acquiring the practical experience and a final practical project.
The course is up to date with Android 4.0 and its syllabus will go through minor changes during the course concurrently with the evolution of the android platform.
You can find the detailed syllabus at http://www.lifemichael.com/hit/hit_android_details_2011_11.pdf.
You can find more info about the course at http://www.xperato.com/hit/hitandroid.html.
The detailed plan can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1BdJcFSJtA8AfXQ2tPaDKue4RmqeldwNTlWMJk0eLcZk.
This coming summer semester (Spring 2012) I am going to deliver a basic Java EE course in HIT. The course is part of the HIT Computers Science BSc academic program.
The main topics we are going to cover in this course are:
Java Servlets & JavaServer Pages
Java Server Faces
Java Persistence API
Java EE Web Services
In addition, we are going to cover the following smaller topics:
HTML 5
JavaScript
XML
Ajax
MooTools
jQuery
jQueryMobile
Most of the training material we are going to use in this course can be found at www.abelski.com. This training material is available for free personal and academic usage.
The official syllabus can be found at http://www.lifemichael.com/hit/JAVA_EE_SYLLABUS_201202.pdf.
The detailed plan can be found at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AhDgrQD6qivLdHo3VWdqMU44Ym9Sd2VJRDU3TE5EN1E&output=html.
The course google group is available at http://groups.google.com/group/hit-java-ee-spring-2012.
Towards this course you should install on your personal computer the following software:
1. Java SDK 7 (http://www.oracle.com)
2. Eclipse (Helios) IDE for Java EE Developers (http://www.eclipse.org)
3. Netbeans IDE Java Version (http://www.netbeans.org)
4. GlassFish Application Server v3.0.1 (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/downloads/index.html)
5. Tomcat 7.0 (http://tomcat.apache.org)
6. Latest version of the following web browsers: Chrome, Safari, IE, Firefox and Opera.
During this semester (Spring 2012) I deliver an academic course dedicated to the Android platform. The course takes place in HIT as part of HIT Computers Science BSc academic program.
The topics this course covers include the following:
Introduction
Application Resources
The Intent Concept
User Interface Controls
Layout Managers
Menus and Dialogs
Touchscreens
Style Definition
App Widgets Development
Location Based Services
Web Services
Android Services
Media Framework
Android Security Model
Graphics Animation
OpenGL Graphics
Customized Views
Android Threads
Application Life Cycle
SQLite Database
Content Providers
Shared Preferences
File Management
External Storage
Dalvik VM
Background Applications
Activity Data
SMS Messages
Telephony
Web View
Java Language
Debugging
Instrumentation Framework
Adapters
Live Wallpapers
BroadcastReceiver
Bluetooth
Text To Speech
Android Search
Camera
Accelerometer
Compass
Vibration
WiFi Connectivity
Networking
Input Method Framework
Device Rotation
Localization
Memory Management
Speech Input
Development Tools
Instant Messaging
Native Development Kit
Android Google TV
Most of the training material this course includes can be found at www.abelski.com. All the training material available on that web site is available for free academic and personal usage.
The official syllabus can be found at http://www.lifemichael.com/hit/ANDROID_SYLLABUS_201202.pdf.
The detailed plan can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1DEwKmcw58GneeUFnGKuaNPS7jT5o6OkafvBnkQn01uw.
The course google group is available at http://groups.google.com/group/hit-android-spring-2012.
Towards this course you should install on your personal computer the following software:
1. Java SDK 7 (http:/java.sun.com)
2. Eclipse (Helios) Pulsar for Mobile Developers (http://www.eclipse.org)
3. Android SDK (www.android.com) more info at http://bit.ly/gF5nO
4. Android NDK (www.android.com) more info at http://bit.ly/aioizd
This spring semester (Spring 2012) I am going to deliver in Tel-Hai college a course that covers advance topics in cloud computing using the .NET platform. This course is delivered as part of Tel-Hai Computers Science BSc academic program. The main topics we are going to cover in this course are: Active Server Pages (ASP) Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Entity Framework (EF) Azure Storage and Azure SQL.
Most of the training material we are going to use in this course can be found at www.abelski.com. This training material is available for free personal and academic usage.
The official syllabus can be found at http://www.lifemichael.com/telhai/AZURE_COURSE.pdf.
The detailed plan can be found at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0AhDgrQD6qivLdDN1YURTeXBUTHREa2hLRWlGdkZUUUE&output=html.
The course google group is available at http://groups.google.com/group/telhai-azure-spring-2012.
During the summer semester I am going to deliver a Java & Scala Programming course in Shenkar. I deliver it as part of Shenkar’s Software Engineering BSc academic program. I am going to teach it on Thursdays 0800-2000.
The course starts with a detailed coverage of the Java SE programming language and continues with a detailed coverage of Scala.
The topics we are going to cover in Java include the following:
Basic Programming
Object Oriented Programming
Arrays and Strings
Inheritance
Inner Classes
Applets
Exceptions Handling
Threads
GUI using AWT
GUI using Swing
I/O Streams
Networking
Java Utilities
Introduction to JAAS
Java SE 5
Java SE 6
Annotation
Assertion
Collections Framework
Core Web Services
Efficient Programming
Generics
Internationalization
JDBC
JNDI
Reflection
Regular Expressions
JUnit
Hibernate
Log4J
Ant
Maven
Design Patterns
AspectJ
JNI
MongoDB
The topics we are going to cover in Scala include the following:
Introduction
Scala Basics
Classes & Objects
Operators
Control Statements
Functions
Closures
Control Structures
Inheritance
Scala Hierarchy
Traits
Packages
Assertions
Unit Testing
Pattern Matching
Collections
Stateful Objects
Type Parameterization
Abstract Members
Types Conversions
Extractors
Annotations
Scala & XML
Objects Comparison
Java Integration
Concurrency
Most of the slides and the other training material of this course can be found at www.abelski.com which is available for free personal and academic usage.
The google group I have just started for this course can be found at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/shenkar-scala-summer-2012.
The detailed plan can be found at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AhDgrQD6qivLdG9rTk5GNHFBRVBydlZ0V0FMd0NnU1E&output=html.
The syllabus can be found at http://www.lifemichael.com/shenkar/SHENKAR_BASIC_JAVA_201207.pdf.
Towards the course you should install (on your personal computer) the following software:
1. Java 2 SDK 7 (http:/www.oracle.com)
2. Scala SDK 2.9 (http://www.scala-lang.org)
3. Eclipse IDE for Java Developers (http://www.eclipse.org)
4. IntelliJ Community Edition (http://www.jetbrains.com)
This semester (Spring 2012) I deliver a basic Java EE course in Shenkar. I deliver it as part of Shenkar Software Engineering BSc academic program.
The main topics we are going to cover in this course are:
Java Servlets & JavaServer Pages
Java Server Faces
Java Persistence API
Java EE Web Services
In addition, we are going to cover the following client side topics:
HTML 5
JavaScript
XML
Ajax
MooTools
jQuery
jQueryMobile
Most of the training material we are going to use in this course can be found at www.abelski.com. This training material is available for free personal and academic usage.
The official syllabus can be found at http://www.lifemichael.com/shenkar/SHENKAR_JAVA_EE_201202.pdf.
The detailed plan can be found at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0AhDgrQD6qivLdG1uajV4MGo1NTgtVm5sV1Z0bXN4Tmc&output=html.
The course google group is available at http://groups.google.com/group/shenkar-java-ee-spring-2012.
Towards this course you should install on your personal computer the following software:
1. Java 2 SDK 7 (http:/java.sun.com)
2. Eclipse (Helios) IDE for Java EE Developers (http://www.eclipse.org)
3. Netbeans IDE Java Version (http://www.netbeans.org)
4. GlassFish Application Server v3.0.1 (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/downloads/index.html)
5. Tomcat 7.0 (http://tomcat.apache.org)
6. Latest version of the following web browsers: Chrome, Safari, IE, Firefox and Opera.
