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

• Introduction to the course
• Ambient Intelligence
  • Definitions of Ambient Intelligence
  • AmI Design Process
• Teamwork
  • Theme of the year: Smart "Cittadella Politecnica"
  • Labs and teamwork
  • Supervised workgroup - recap
• Programming
  • Programming for AmI
  • Hardware fundamentals
  • Python basics
  • Python intermediate
  • Introduction to Git
  • REST services with Python and Flask: the Flask Music Server
  • Controlling Lights with Python and REST: the Hue case
  • Interoperation and device control from Python
  • Using Databases (MySQL, SQLite) with Python
  • Android hands-on
• Web technologies
  • Web architectures, languages and tecnologies [updated 2015-04-16)
  • Building web applications with Flask
  • Style & Layout in the web: CSS and Bootstrap
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery

In-class Exercises

• Hardware fundamentals (GitHub)
• Python basics (GitHub)
• Python intermediate (GitHub)
• Building web applications (GitHub) [updated 2015-04-13]
• Flask Music Server (GitHub)
• Colored Light control (GitHub)
• Device interoperation (GitHub)
• Android-activity-lifecycle(GitHub)
• Android-intent (GitHub)
• Android-flask-client (GitHub)

Laboratories

• Getting started with Python (auxiliary files: alice.txt, python-zen.txt) [Solutions on GitHub]
• Python intermediate [Solutions on GitHub]
• Web in Python [Solutions on GitHub]
• REST in Python [Solutions on GitHub]

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
• Official Python Tutorial
• Learn Python the Hard Way, Zed Shaw
• Dive Into Python 2, Mark Pilgrim
• Google's Python class
• Learning Python (5th edition), Mark Lutz, O'Reilly
• 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
• The Dog Gateway project website
• List of 2014 students works' websites
• Online Python Tutor
• Estimote Beacon documentation
• RaZberry and Z-Way (for connecting with Z-Wave networks)
  • example of usage of Z-Way API in Python