NetBeans Certified Training: MatFyz, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
From 29 to 30 May, 2008, the
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
. The main organizer was Petr Hnětynka. Jaroslav Tulach and David Šimonek
gave presentations and demo shows. Course is part of summer
semester and as such participants get not only NetBeans certification,
but also one credit, as explained on the
course page.
Course Report
Agenda
We (presenters) decided to move Window System presentation to the
first day and leave tough presentation about Lookup to second day. Our decision
proved to be mostly good, with the only exception some pieces of presentations
touched usage of Lookup, which was not introduced at that time yet. Solution
seems to be to divide Lookup presentation in two parts - "Introduction to Lookup
usage" on first day and "Lookup and injections in module system" on day two.
Code everywhere
Training was held during student's exams month, so group of participats
was relatively small. While it's a shame for sure, it allowed us to enhance
demo part, make it code intensive and let participants develop demos with us.
Live exercises developed both by trainers and participants raised efficiency of
knowledge sharing and moreover, it was pure fun. Under our guidance,
participants were able to port Swing sample application "Anagram Game" into
Netbeans window system, create Nodes to show word libraries into Services tab,
create new file type (DataObject) to represent word libraries in Node views
like explorer and finally decouple word library API and its implementation(s)
by using NetBeans Lookup and Module system. All code developed during exercises
should be available at course page.
Exercises, not demos
We recommend other trainers to follow our experience and turn demos into
exercises that are being coded live by trainer, with participants following
on their machines. Such technique works especially well for smaller group
of participants. We feel it's more useful for both sides of the show, more
lively, more fun.
...And the memory remains
The course was very nice and memorable for presenters as well as for students.
For presenters, it was a possibility to recall their bright student's ages,
as both Jaroslav and David studied at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics.
Task for participants
Look at
list of available excercises
and extend it with your favorite one!
Training Content
Training is based on NetBeans Platform Certified Training.
Some sessions include small exercises for participants to test presented content in practice.
Required Setup
All participants should have
- Connection to the internet
- Netbeans 6.1 installed, Java SE version.
