Agenda

What’s covered each week. This page will be updated frequently.

• Wed: formal lectures (1h 30m), open time (20m).
• Fri: informal demos (20m), open time (1h 30m).

Week 01: Introduction

Wed Lecture

• Introduction to the course
• Agile development practices
• Review project guidelines & requirements

Fri Lab

• Setup GitLab as your first project activity
  • Steps to form a team
  • How to create your GitLab project

Week 02: Learning Kotlin

Wed Lecture

• Introduction to Kotlin
• Object-Oriented Kotlin
• Functional Kotlin

Fri Lab

• Installing the development toolchain
• Review how to setup the Git repository
• Setup GitLab is due by 6:00 PM

Week 03: Builds & testing

Lecture

• Build systems & Gradle for building and running your project.
• TDD & unit testing desktop and Android projects

Lab

• Creating a Gradle project for your team
• Managing project dependencies e.g., libraries and plugins, shared projects.
• Quiz 1 is due by 6:00 PM

Week 04: Application design

Lecture

• Application architecture
• Demo of courses application
  • Dependency injection and testing unmanaged dependencies (move here from unit testing slides).
  • Structure from architecture slides.
• Design patterns (TBD)

Lab

• Project proposal presentation is due in-class, see demo times
• Project proposal is due by 6:00 PM

Week 05: User interfaces

Lecture

• User interfaces
• Declarative user interfaces with Compose
• Navigation between screens
• Unit testing composables (new)

Lab

• Building a MVVM application with a user interface. Testing it.
• Quiz 2 is due by 6:00 PM

Week 06: Platform features

Lecture

• Desktop platform
• Mobile/Android platform

Lab

• Sprint 1 demo is due in-class, see demo times
• Sprint 1 code must be submitted by 6:00 PM

Week 07: Reading week

No lectures or labs
Nothing is due. Enjoy the week!

Week 08: Kotlin Multiplatform

Lecture

• KMP builds
• Platform specific features

Lab

• Demonstrating a KMP project
• Quiz 3 is due by 6:00 PM

Week 09: SQL databases

Lecture

• SQL databases
• Exposed framework

Lab

• Sprint 2 demo is due in-class, see demo times
• Sprint 2 code must be submitted by 6:00 PM

Week 10: Web services

Lecture

• Web services
• Ktor

Lab

• Building a multi-target application using Ktor.
• Quiz 4 is due by 6:00 PM

Week 11: Concurrency

Lecture

• Concurrency
• Coroutines

Lab

• Sprint 3 demo is due in-class, see demo times
• Sprint 3 code must be submitted 6:00 PM

Week 12: Packaging

Lecture

• Containers, packaging

Lab

• Packaging our applications.
• Quiz 5 is due by 6:00 PM

Week 13: Wrapup

Lecture

• Course evaluations.
• Course wrapup! Final submission hints.

Lab

• Sprint 4 demo is due in-class, see demo times
• Sprint 4 code must be submitted by 6:00 PM

Week 14: Final Release

Tues is the last day of classes, so there are no lectures or labs this week.

Your final software release is due by Tues Dec 2 @ 6:00 PM