Author: Svetlin Nakov
June 10, 2010
Finally we managed to take some photos of the Telerik Academy (http://academy.telerik.com) where I constantly train young software engineers in computer programming, .NET Framework technology stack and team working:

Currently I have a group of 20 students who successfully passed in 2 months the “C# Fundamentals” courses (Part 1 and 2) and passed all required exams. Currently I teach them in .NET Framework Essentails course which takes 3 months (4-8 hours/day) and covers the .NET Framework class libraries, XML, databases and SQL, LINQ, LINQ-to-SQL and SQL Server, Web services and WCF, design patterns, software engineering, SCRUM, unit testing, source control systems and build systems. The course introduces briefly desktop applications and Windows Forms, Web technologies and Web development with ASP.NET and AJAX, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight.
It is really nice to explain the programming concepts and best practices to highly motivated students eager to learn more and more.

Telerik Academy have excellent training lab equipped with 20 machines and we are happy to keep it full of smart young people.

Tags: Academy, academy photos, class libraries, computer, framework technology, NET, source control systems, SQL, technology, telerik
Author: Svetlin Nakov
June 9, 2010
The video from the seminar about Java 7 organized by the Bulgarian Java User Group (BGJUG) on 20.05.2010 in the Technical University of Sofia is finally published (thanks to Yordan Yovkov for the video processing):
At the seminar (and also in the recorded videos) I and Mihail Stoynov explained in details the following topics:
- Java 7 – Introduction and Chronology
- Dynamic Languages in JVM
- Java Modularity – Project Jigsaw
- Language Enhancements (Project Coin)
- Closures for Java (lambda functions, extension methods, etc.)
- JSR 203: NIO 2
- Other new features: Compressed 64-bit oops, Garbage-First GC, Upgraded Class-Loaders, URLClassLoader. close(), Unicode 5.1, SCTP and SDP
I had the same talk in Varna, at the Varna Free University Chernorizets Hrabar, invited by the developer community on 29.05.2010.
I already published the presentation and downloads.
Tags: class loaders, dynamic languages, Group, Java, java user group, language enhancements, sctp, Technical, User, Yordan
Author: Svetlin Nakov
June 1, 2010
Today we did the final test for the students as part of the requirements to graduate the “High-Quality Programming Code” course (http://codecourse.telerik.com) in Sofia University, at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (FMI). There were about 130 students in two groups and I am happy of their high achievements. Most of the students answered correctly to more than 85% of the questions.
The exam results are published at the Web site of Telerik Academy in the section “University Courses”, at the “High-Quality Programming Code” course’s official site (http://codecourse.telerik.com).
Tags: Faculty, final test, Informatics, Programming, programming code, Quality, quality code, quality programming, site, sofia university