Day1 – Installation of eclipse and android SDK was done. Everyone installed and started there emulator successful. Hello World program was explained properly. Making UI through XML and through java file was explained. Then App inventor tool of google was shown.

Day2 – Basics of java and then android overview (activities, intents, widget…) was covered first. Then Lab1 was done which was hands-on-session . Everyone used Linear Layout, Button, EditText, Checkbox , etc… through dynamic programming and made a simple app. How to use LogCat to debug code was also taught.

Day3-  Different Example codes were explained and distributed. Lab2 was done which was hand on session. Same layout which was made in day2 was now made through xml. It covered different layout, widget most importantly listview, adapter, layout inflator, etc.

Lastly there was discussion on ideation as well. How to generate ideas for an mobile application. What all thing we should look for when we go for making an mobile application, etc.

All files are attached  (Lab1, Lab2 complete, examples and slides)

http://www.slideshare.net/sritolia/android-workshday1

http://www.slideshare.net/sritolia/android-workshobasic-java

http://www.slideshare.net/sritolia/android-workshop-day3

http://www.lugmanipal.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/lugmanipal.zip

2) JDK-  Download and install the Java JDK depending upon the OS and processor (32bit or 64 bit) you have. http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
JDK 7 is recommended.

3) Eclipse – Download eclipse zip file and extract it. – http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ .The “Eclipse Classic” version is recommended. Otherwise, a Java or RCP version of Eclipse is recommended.

4) Download Android SDK – download and extract the android sdk depending upon the OS you have. http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

5) ADT Plugin – Install the ADT Plugin

1. Start Eclipse, then select Help > Install New Software….
2. Click Add, in the top-right corner.
3. In the Add Repository dialog that appears, enter “ADT Plugin” for the Name and the following URL for the Location:

   https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/

4. Click OKNote: If you have trouble acquiring the plugin, try using “http” in the Location URL, instead of “https” (https is preferred for security reasons).
5. In the Available Software dialog, select the checkbox next to Developer Tools and click Next.
6. In the next window, you’ll see a list of the tools to be downloaded. Click Next.
7. Read and accept the license agreements, then click Finish.Note: If you get a security warning saying that the authenticity or validity of the software can’t be established, click OK.
8. When the installation completes, restart Eclipse.

6)  Configuring ADT Plugin – go to Window=>Preferences=>Android and change the build path to
wherever you put the android-sdk folder.(the sdk you downloaded in step 4) .

7) Try the hello world program from here – http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/hello-world.html .

(You may follow the detailed instructions from the official web site – http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html )

Details:
1)20th of Jan – The first of the talks were by Prof. KP Rao and was on the Wikipedia foundation. The talk was wonderful and Prof KP Rao shared with us his 50 years of teaching experience and also talked on the various aspects of wikipedia and on the concept behind it. He also talked about the ideasOpen Information – By Prof K.P Rao

2)21st of Jan – The second of the talks was on Approach to algorithms in coding competition, by shivhari shankar on the memebers of LUG, Manipal. The talk was on the basics of coding competition and thoughts that go behind solving one of them. Standard problems were also picked and analyzed. It was an open session with anyone allowed to discuss and analysed the problem given. Problems like the n queens problem and permutation and combination were well received by everyone and there was an overall informal session that was fruitful and useful.

3)22nd of Jan -Being civilised humans, we conform to certain behavioural patterns in life to be a part of the social systems. Similarly there are many practices, many problems already solved. Design patterns is about finding a pre made good solution to your problems.

Slides for the talks:

Design patterns

Session 2-Algorithms

click on the link to download:

python

The slides for the remaining part of the workshop:

pys60

The session first covered a brief idea of why we need to have distributed computing since everything is driven by need.Then It covered how a distributed file system works.It focussed on the Google File System.A demonstartion of how Hadoop works on a single node enviornment where a example very similar to the wordcount example was show. It was an election simulation where the input was the votes cast and the Hadoop Job aggregated the results.After this some finer details about Hadoop was covered which was the last topic in the session.

Some resources that are very helpful:

http://code.google.com/edu/parallel/index.html#hadoop

Slides for the session:

http://www.slideshare.net/varunthacker/distributed-computing-3635200

http://www.jakobhoman.com/search/label/Hadoop

How to setup an Hadoop enviorment:

http://www.michael-noll.com/wiki/Running_Hadoop_On_Ubuntu_Linux_%28Single-Node_Cluster%29

http://www.michael-noll.com/wiki/Running_Hadoop_On_Ubuntu_Linux_%28Multi-Node_Cluster%29

The aim of the talk was to give a brief account on everything related
to search engine technology.It started with an introduction to search
engines and then went on to tell about the different types of search
engines technologies.Then we focused on the Google search engine
architecture.After that SEO’s techniques were discussed and Google’s
webmaster tools was shown.Now the final topic of how to get the best
results out of Google’s search engine with the knowledge of some
operators was covered.This is what the talk consisted of.

The reason for the troubleshooting session on the second day was for
users facing problems while operating Linux.Users discussed their
problems and were solved one by one.Some of the common problems
included users were facing is to get the package manager working using
our colleges proxy server. Next, they were shown how to install
packages manually in linux. This topic proceeded with a small discussion
on how to clear the dependencies.Then we had a quick glance through the
different shells and desktop environments in linux. The session ended
by showing the users how to run C and C++ programs on linux.