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
  • Labs and teamwork
• Programming
  • Programming for AmI
  • Python basics
  • Introduction to Git
  • Python intermediate
  • Using Databases (MySQL, SQLite) with Python
  • REST services with Python and Flask: a case study
  • Controlling Lights with Python and REST: the Philips Hue case
  • Android hands-on
• Web technologies
  • Web architectures, languages and tecnologies
  • Building web applications with Flask
  • Style & Layout in the web: CSS and Bootstrap
  • HTTP and REST
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery

In-class Exercises

• Python basics (GitHub)
• Python intermediate (GitHub)
• Python databases (GitHub)
• Building web applications (GitHub)
• Tasks REST Server (GitHub, RESTful API Design)
• Colored Light control (GitHub)
• Android minimal calculator (GitHub)
• Android Todo List app (GitHub)

Laboratories

• Getting started with Python (auxiliary file: task_list.txt) [Solutions on GitHub]
• Python intermediate [Solutions on GitHub]
• Using Databases (SQLite) with Python [Solutions on GitHub]
• Web in Python [Solutions on GitHub]
• REST in Python [Solutions on GitHub]
• jQuery, Ajax, REST: a full exercise [Solutions on GitHub]

Readings and papers

• Ambient Intelligence (in general)
  • Intelligent Environments: a manifesto, JC Augusto et al, 2013
  • Scenarios in Ambient Intelligence 2010, European Commission ISTAG, 2001
• Python
  • 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
• Raspberry Pi
  • 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
• List of 2015 students works' websites
• 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
• The Dog Gateway project website