Materials

This section will host learning material: slides, documents, links, videos, etc. used during the course. All slides, examples, exercises, and any other material used in the classroom will be posted here.

Slides

• Course Introduction
• Definitions and Application Areas (part 1)
• Definitions and Application Areas (complete)
• Programming for AmI
• Python basics (complete)
• Labs and Teamwork
• Hardware fundamentals
• AmI Design Process (part 1)
• AmI Design Process (complete)
• Version Control with Git
• Rapid prototyping: Python Software
• Web Architecture and Technologies (updated: 2014-04-03)
• Ideas evaluation and Projects assignment (updated: 31/03/2014)
• The Dog Gateway: introduction and REST API
• REST in Python: The Python Music Server
• Interoperation of different home automation networks
• Interacting with the Pebble smartwatch
• Ambient Intelligence Taxonomy
• Home and Building Automation Systems (MyOpen, KNX, ModBus, ZigBee, EnOcean)
• EnOcean Energy Harvesting

Exercises

• Python basics (complete)
• Rapid prototyping: Python Software (GitHub)
• REST in Python: The Python Music Server (GitHub)
• Interoperation of different home automation networks (GitHub)
• Interacting with the Pebble smartwatch (GitHub)

Laboratories

• Hands on Python (auxiliary files: alice.txt, python-zen.txt) [Solutions on GitHub]
• Python intermediate [Solutions on GitHub]
• Summary evaluations
• Python software and hardware
• Requirements evaluation

Readings and papers

• Intelligent Environments: a manifesto, JC Augusto et al, 2013
• Scenarios in Ambient Intelligence 2010, European Commission ISTAG, 2001
• Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, Allen Downey, Green Tea Press, Needham, Massachusetts
• Official Python Tutorial
• Learn Python the Hard Way, Zed Shaw
• Dive Into Python 2, Mark Pilgrim
• Google's Python class
  
• Online Python Tutor
• Getting started with the Raspberry Pi, Matt Richardson and Shawn Wallace, O'Reilly
• Raspberry Pi cookbook, Simon Monk, O'Reilly
• Raspberry Pi for secret agents, Stefan Sjogelid, Packt Publishing
• A collection of Linux quick reference sheets (cheat sheets)

Links

• Facebook group linked to the course
• Ideascale collaboration platform for the definition of ideas of the Group Projects
• The Dog Gateway project website
• List of students works' websites