University Course

This page will always be under construction.

An intensive university course for two weeks in which to get familiar with Qt programming on Maemo and the tools used for that.

Contents

Preparations

  • How to set up a garage account and project
  • Think of a simple app that can be coded in about a week (doesn't matter if there is already an app out there that does what you think is cool, it's supposed to be a learning experience for you)
  • Form small 3 person teams
  • Use garage for project tracking
  • Get the tools and go!

Course format

  • Small teams for the projects, preferably about 3 people per team
  • Run in a SCRUM way - but this is up to the teams
  • Sprints last for about three days
  • Course mentors visit as possible and needed in the afternoons

Schedule

Week 1.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Morning What is Maemo?

What is Qt?

Setting up continued.
Afternoon Getting the tools.

Setting up.

Sprint review


Week 2.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Morning Last minute polish
Afternoon Sprint review Sprint review Packaging applications Project review

Useful links

Getting the tools

Choose either MADDE or full SDK

  • Decision - use MADDE

Qt docs

Qt & Maemo examples, Forum Nokia

Trolltech official Qt docs. Excellent source. Use the version recommended (4.5 or 4.6) on the course.

Qt packaging guide

Design Patterns with Qt4

Getting help

  • Irc channel #maemo or freenode.net (and the course specific one too)
  • Maemo-developers mailing list on maemo.org
  • Course mentors directly by mail or IM

Afterwards

Continue the project if you think it's fun.

Publishing on extras.