Coders 4 Africa

Event Program:

1.      2011 activities discussion

a.       Portal content

b.      Introduce our eLearning portal module

c.      Let sponsors representative speakers showcase technology they are working on and ICT capacity

d.      Increase members involvement and participation

e.      Discuss c4a current projects

f.      Discuss Google, Microsoft, JAVA technologies and how they affect African software developers

                                    i.      Technology updates

                                    ii.      Mobile Innovations

g.        Discuss Cloud computing

                                    i.      Advantages and disadvantages for Africa

2.      2 days of practical training workshops and interaction to help solve development challenges: Google Apps, Android, .NET, JAVA, Linux etc.

a.       Showcase your Application at the event - Showcase your company

                                    i.      Do you want to get specific feedback on your application, see how it fares against competition, what improvements can be done?

                                    ii.      Do you have specific technical challenges in implementation you would like to overcome and don't know how to proceed?

                                    iii.      Would you like to discuss in depth cooperation possibilities with a particular technology?

b.      Labs

                                    i.      How to build a data driven application

1.      Web perspective

2.      Mobile perspective

                                   ii.      Learn to build a fairly complex Android application and install it on your Google Phone. Learn the Android SDK

                                  iii.     Talk About Android

                                  iv.      Learn what’s new in JAVA world

                                  v.      Learn What’s new in Microsoft .Net world

                                 vi.       Project management

c.       Self-learning and training

                                   i.      Bring your own laptop

                                  ii.      Recognize bad code and clean them up

                                  iii.      Code refactor

                                 iv.      Capture requirements and specifications

                                  v.      Apply best practices

Feel free to contact the team at contact@coders4africa.org

Agenda:

05/21/20  15:00 to 18:00

05/22/2011 15:00 to 18:00