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[the cutting edge ]G'day Developers! Creating an ouroboros, or: how coding boot camp students created SugarLearning, a tool that now runs their course I'm having a ball this month – I've been to Melbourne to give 3 presentations at TechEd and I get to do the same again at TechEd Sydney in a couple of weeks. I'm also enjoying the hubbub and excitement of getting ready to release the beta version of SugarLearning, which was made by the students of the first FireBootCamp course back in January. As part of this, we've put together a video that shows how we used SugarLearning in our second FireBootCamp course, and will also be sending out a press release. Watch the video, have a read of the press release, and let me know what you think.
SugarLearning Press ReleaseSSW is announcing the beta release of SugarLearning. SugarLearning is an online training tool that was built by the students of SSW's first intensive 9-week .NET coding camp, FireBootCamp, in January 2014. In a circle of fruition, SugarLearning was used by the mentors of the FireBootCamp when the course ran again in July. Lead mentor Adam Stephensen used it to set and track completion rates of homework and required readings for the students. Thus, the student-created tool was wielded to help the newest batch of students acquire the same knowledge used to make it. At SSW SugarLearning is designed to simplify the induction process for employees and
employers alike. FireBootCamp mentor and Microsoft Regional Director Adam Cogan
described the usefulness of the tool: "The goal is to integrate new employees as soon as possible. The employer can choose from core and job-specific learning tasks to customize the induction to ensure the learning meets the needs of both the employee and the unique requirements of each role." Adam Stephensen, .NET and Azure expert, and mentor of the FireBootCamp students
responsible for SugarLearning, talked about his experience using it for his
students: "While the application is simple, it has a fully featured gamification engine. There is the option to assign illustrative "achievement badges" to any categories considered especially important and all achievements are tracked online. I used it during the last FireBootCamp and, as a teacher, enjoyed the easy to read progress summary and leaderboards." The students built SugarLearning with modern technologies including ASP.NET MVC, HTML5. It is deployed to Azure, Microsoft's cloud technology. FireBootCamp was established to train and guide developers while building a real world app for a real Product Owner. The intensive course focuses on in-demand skills to ensure that when they graduate the students will have the enterprise web development skills to hit the ground running. You can test drive SugarLearning now at sugarlearning.com -Adam Cogan, SSW Got a comment for Adam? |
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New SSW TV video!Xamarin University – Experiences from the frontline with Glen Stephens & Alec Tucker
Adam Cogan interviews Xamarin employee Glen Stephens. Student Alec Tucker talks about his experience doing Xamarin University part-time. |
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New course: Modern Enterprise Best Practices with ASP.Net MVC and AngularJSTechEd Satellite Workshop
 If you're writing MVC applications for the enterprise (or want to start) you need to go beyond the simple technology demos. In this 2 day course you will learn proven tools and techniques for building enterprise-quality, maintainable, scalable, and robust applications. The training doesn't stop there - in addition to two jam-packed days on ASP.NET MVC, AngularJS, dependency injection, unit testing, loosely coupled architecture, SOLID principles, Windows Azure, continuous deployment and design patterns like Repository and Unit of Work, you'll leave with hands-on exercises you can take back to work and implement immediately. As an attendee you'll also have ongoing access to our comprehensive library of video training so that you can share your newfound knowledge inside your organisation.
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Webinar: Dev Superpowers - XamarinNative iOS and Android Development
Getting started building cross platform native mobile applications with Xamarin and Visual Studio
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Become a World Class Developer in just 9 weeks with FireBootCamp!Special Intensive Course
Redmond, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, San Francisco The FireBootCamp program is an intensive, full-time, 9-week program. Participants learn, work and code together for 10-12 hours per day, 5 days a week. Apart from exercise and food breaks, the guys in the program are hands on learning all day every day. The program focuses on real world skills including Agile software development practices, enterprise architecture, application life cycle, end-to-end testing and user interface design. The technology stack covers .NET MVC, AngularJS, TypeScript, jQuery, Windows Azure and uses Microsoft Visual Studio 2013. Scheduled Boot Camps:
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Sydney .NET User GroupThe best place to learn .NET for free in Sydney
"Tour of the Physical Internet" – Grant Holliday Have you ever wondered how your bits and bytes travel between your PC to all the servers on the Internet? In this session, we will take a virtual road-trip out your router, through some Internet Exchange Points, under the ocean in some submarine cables and speed along some of the widest sections of the Internet Superhighway. About the presenter:
To see more details and RSVP, please visit our Facebook .NET Group, our LinkedIn .NET Group or our Meetup Group.
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Can't make it to the Sydney .NET User Group?Watch the Live stream!
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Then join us at the NerdDinnerWhere nerds meet and eat
SSW and Telerik invite you to join us for pizza at The Oaks. A fantastic opportunity for networking with peers and sharing thoughts after the Sydney .NET User Group presentation. Sydney .NET User Group and NerdDinner proudly sponsored by:
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Canberra .NET User GroupThe best place to learn .NET for free in Canberra
"Tour of the Physical Internet" – Grant Holliday Have you ever wondered how your bits and bytes travel between your PC to all the servers on the Internet? In this session, we will take a virtual road-trip out your router, through some Internet Exchange Points, under the ocean in some submarine cables and speed along some of the widest sections of the Internet Superhighway. About the presenter:
To see more details and RSVP, please visit our Facebook .NET Group, our LinkedIn .NET Group or our Meetup Group.
Canberra .NET User Group proudly sponsored by:
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Advertise with SSWIf you would like to advertise your product or service with SSW or would like to find out more about various advertising opportunities, please email your enquiry to [email protected] or call: +61 2 9953 3000. |
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Fun stuff
 Ruby Cogan (Adam's daughter) is a star! Check her out in the music video for Karise Eden's hit new song, Dynamite. |