.NET Workshop @ SUSL

 

A two day .NET Workshop was organized at Sabaragmuwa University of Sri Lanka on 30th September and 1st of October and the Workshop was conducted by the Microsoft Student Champs Community.

The Opening Ceremony was started with a keynote speech which was conducted by Mr.Wellington Perera (Director –Developer Platform Evangelism,Microsoft Sri Lanka) and following speech was done by Dr C.P Udawatte (Dept Head-physical sciences,Faculty of Applied Sciences)

 

In this workshop there are several areas are covered with .NET technology such as,

• C#.NET
• OOP with C#
• ADO.NET & SQL Server
• Web Services
• ASP.NET

Behalf of the Champs community Several Students Ambassadors,

• Madusha Nanayakkara
• Chanaka Herath
• Prageeth Sandakelum

and

Sachira Chintana as a Student champ came to the conduct the workshop

and Two Guest speakers,

• Mr.Prabath Fonseka
• Mr.Chandana Athauda

came to share the knowledge of them with the students.

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Greenfoot- Java Game Programming and Learning Programming made easy!

Greenfoot is actually a Framework,It is very very helpful for Novice Programmers and this is mainly aimed for JAVA assignments which have two dimensional grids(Like burick! burick !! Games) :D.
Greenfoot has,

• Framework for creating two dimensional grids in JAVA
• Integrated Development Environment(class browser,editor,compiler,execution,etc)

Framework:-
Framework has two responsibilities,

1. Make it easy to create graphical representations of objects.
2. Control the execution (start, stop, step) of a simulation loop.

IDE of Greenfoot
The greenfoot environment contains the typical elements of a development environment:

• A source code editor
• A class browser
• Compilation
• Execution control
• A debugger

Who should use greenfoot?(Adopted from Authors)

Greenfoot is aimed at programming at high school level or above (from age 13 up). It can be effectively used at school level, college and university, and even in advanced university courses. The students at high school levels might not be as commited to programming and we have tried to create an interesting program that should engage the student. In order to do this, we acknowledge that students have different opinions on what might be interesting. Hence, we sought to create a flexible environment that could be customised for the specific group of students. Furthermore, in the design of greenfoot we considered the different learning styles of students. you can  download this  from Greenfoot.org and it needs JDK also.

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Windows Phone 7 Programming-Ebook

Hi there Microsoft press has announced Giving an ebook about Programming Windows Phone 7 and this was written by Petzold(you know him right ? Programming windows ….etc ;) )And this Excerpt Edition has only 6 chapters but 11 to go!

Here are the contents of this Book,

Part I   The Basics

Chapter 1   Hello, Windows Phone 7

Chapter 2   Getting Oriented

Chapter 3   An Introduction to Touch

Chapter 4   Bitmaps, Also Known as Textures

Chapter 5   Sensors and Services

Chapter 6   Issues in Application Architecture

 

Part II   Silverlight

Chapter 7   XAML Power and Limitations

Chapter 8   Elements and Properties

Part III   XNA

Chapter 20   Principles of Movement

Chapter 21   Textures and Sprites

Chapter 22   Touch and Play

You Can download this from here.

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Facebook Stories-Share your story…

 

Facebook Stories is a newest introduced functionality of facebook.Basically its a facebook Application which will helps you to share your thoughts with others in a different manner.

You can see others stories by location or themes,and in the front page there is a Bing map included to show the stories came from.Its a pretty interesting thing.  Isn’t it?

You can go to the Facebook Stories through stories.facebook.com

But still 3 stories from the Sri Lanka posted!!!,Hope it will increase soon :).So share your stories with FBians.

P.S:-FBians is a new word to name people who with and use Facebook .Its  came from my mind just now! You can pronounce it  as Fibians!!!:D

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Imagine Cup 2011 Just Started!!

The Worlds premier IT Competition application calling is started.(But Imaginecup.lk is not yet updated ;) ).Anyway this is the best platform for each and every university student to show their colors regarding to their IT Knowledge.

This year Imaginecup official site has updated like no other before.Next year finals will be held on USA,and last year registrants can easily migrate their accounts to the new system .

Last year all the First places are won by Asians.You can follow about the last year highlights through this link.

And finally all the Sri Lankan University People..Go Get It!!!

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Functional Programming , Functions in to Fun F#

Hello Every one this is my first technical blog post.So in that case i would like to introduce a new computer programming language called F#,The newest Language of .NET Family.


What is F#?
F# is a Strongly Typed that uses Type inference ,As a result programmer need not to declare the data types when it in compile time they will deduced by the compiler.It is a Object Oriented Language.Created by Microsoft Research.(As Usual :D)

Origin of F#
Created by Don Syme –Leader of the team that incubated the language in Microsoft Research.
and also F# which has been developed in a partnership between Microsoft Research and the Microsoft Developer Division.

                                                                                                       Don Syme

What F# Do?
Basically it is designed for Functional Programming tasks which means any one can use this language to solve problems and also use the large collection of .NET libraries.
The language enables explorative programming, with the flexibility to translate requirements into code easily. That ability makes F# particularly valuable for the technical, algorithmic, parallel, and data-rich fields, with applications ranging from financial-market analysis to machine learning and from scientific usage to game development.
The Visual Studio release includes important new features of F#:

• A simple, succinct functional syntax.
• A rich .NET object-oriented programming model.
• Integrated parallel and asynchronous programming features.
• Units of measure.
• F# Interactive.

The core syntax of F# follows in the tradition of ML programming languages, in particular, OCaml, and the language also incorporates key ideas from such languages as C#, Haskell, and Python. F# continues a long tradition of research and development by starting with the design of core ML and building atop it.
That’s all for today but i hope to continue this article from Code comparison of F# and C#
See you at the next post!

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C# code testing

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{

class Program

{

static void Main(string[] args)

{

// Output text to the screen.

Console.WriteLine(“The first app in Beginning C# Programming!”);

Console.ReadKey();

}

}

}

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