Course Description

The proliferation of tablets and smartphones has raised customers’ expectations of their interaction with any device. If interaction with a device’s touchscreen is not as responsive or easy as with a tablet users are immediately disappointed.

This one-day course will cover critical user experience (UX) concepts and challenges to consider before engaging in core development of an embedded systems application.

We will present various scenarios and UX best practices, discuss user interface (UI) prototyping and testing strategies, examine case studies and work through a design problem.

This course is suitable for project managers, software developers, product managers and anyone interested in learning how to create a modern user experience.

Course Availability: On-site, Open Enrollment
Duration: 1 day

Outline:

• Principles of design
• How the UX process flows, with a focus on the needed of embedded system
• Creation of personas and user scenarios to guide design
• Development of an Information Architecture
• Testing and validation of designs
• UX prototyping techniques

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Course Description

This 5-day course focuses on developing modern applications for embedded systems and touchscreens using Qt and QtQuick. The class utilizes real development boards with touchscreens for each participant and introduces students to working with embedded touchscreen systems. Further, fundamentals of programming with Qt will be covered to give participants a thorough understanding of the underlying ideas of QML and QtQuick. Efficient and robust design of applications for touchscreen enabled devices utilizing the latest QtQuick techniques is the central focus of this class. As such, architectural considerations for creating applications consisting of beautiful and highly responsive presentation layers, backed by solid back-end implementations are important learning goals for participants.

In the course, we will use the Raspberry Pi embedded system and a multi-point touchscreen. After the class, you may keep the board and touchscreen for a discounted fee of $172.50 plus tax. This is optional and we will loan you a touchscreen and board at no extra charge if you prefer.

Course Availability: On-site, Open Enrollment
Subject: Qt
Duration: 5 days

Course Prerequisites

• Working knowledge of C++ programming
• Basic knowledge of GUI programming
• Previous Qt experience is not required

Course Outline

Qt Fundamentals

• Core Classes
• String Handling
• Container Classes
• File Handling
• Command Line Parsing
• Lab: File I/O, Text Manipulation, and Command Line Parsing
• Objects
• Qt's Object Model
• Variants
• Properties and MetaProperties
• ANSI-Style Typecasts
• Signals & Slots
• QTimers
• Event Handling
• QApplication, Resources, etc..

Introduction to QML and Qt Quick

• Introduction to Qt Quick
• Qt Creator
• Qt Quick Hello World
• QML Concepts
• Composing User Interfaces
• Nested Elements
• Graphical Types
• Text Items
• Anchor Layout
• QML Components

Qt Quick Structures and User Interaction

• Qt Quick Structures
• Components
• Signals and Slots in QML
• QtQuick Controls
• Modules
• User Interaction
• Mouse Input
• Touch Input
• Keyboard Input

Animations, States and Transitions

• Animations
• Easing Curves
• Animation Groups
• States and Transitions
• States
• State Conditions
• Transitions

Under the Hood - the Qt C++ Layer

• Integrating QML with C++
• Declarative Environment
• Exporting C++ Objects to QML
• Exporting Classes to QML
• Using Custom Types
• Plug-ins

Miscellaneous Topics

• Presenting Data (QML)
• Arranging Items
• Data Models
• Using Views
• XML Models
• Views Revisited
• Graphics Effects
• Canvas
• Particles
• Shaders
• MultiThreaded Programming
• Qt Multithreading
• Thread Synchronization and Primitives

Mandatory computer requirements

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Course Description

This 5-day course focuses on developing modern applications for embedded systems and touchscreens using Qt and QtQuick. The class utilizes real development boards with touchscreens for each participant and introduces students to working with embedded touchscreen systems. Further, fundamentals of programming with Qt will be covered to give participants a thorough understanding of the underlying ideas of QML and QtQuick. Efficient and robust design of applications for touchscreen enabled devices utilizing the latest QtQuick techniques is the central focus of this class. As such, architectural considerations for creating applications consisting of beautiful and highly responsive presentation layers, backed by solid back-end implementations are important learning goals for participants.

In the course, we will use the Raspberry Pi embedded system and a multi-point touchscreen. After the class, you may keep the board and touchscreen for a discounted fee of $172.50 plus tax. This is optional and we will loan you a touchscreen and board at no extra charge if you prefer.

Course Availability: On-site, Open Enrollment
Subject: Qt
Duration: 5 days

Course Prerequisites

• Working knowledge of C++ programming
• Basic knowledge of GUI programming
• Previous Qt experience is not required

Course Outline

Qt Fundamentals

• Core Classes
• String Handling
• Container Classes
• File Handling
• Command Line Parsing
• Lab: File I/O, Text Manipulation, and Command Line Parsing
• Objects
• Qt's Object Model
• Variants
• Properties and MetaProperties
• ANSI-Style Typecasts
• Signals & Slots
• QTimers
• Event Handling
• QApplication, Resources, etc..

Introduction to QML and Qt Quick

• Introduction to Qt Quick
• Qt Creator
• Qt Quick Hello World
• QML Concepts
• Composing User Interfaces
• Nested Elements
• Graphical Types
• Text Items
• Anchor Layout
• QML Components

Qt Quick Structures and User Interaction

• Qt Quick Structures
• Components
• Signals and Slots in QML
• QtQuick Controls
• Modules
• User Interaction
• Mouse Input
• Touch Input
• Keyboard Input

Animations, States and Transitions

• Animations
• Easing Curves
• Animation Groups
• States and Transitions
• States
• State Conditions
• Transitions

Under the Hood - the Qt C++ Layer

• Integrating QML with C++
• Declarative Environment
• Exporting C++ Objects to QML
• Exporting Classes to QML
• Using Custom Types
• Plug-ins

Miscellaneous Topics

• Presenting Data (QML)
• Arranging Items
• Data Models
• Using Views
• XML Models
• Views Revisited
• Graphics Effects
• Canvas
• Particles
• Shaders
• MultiThreaded Programming
• Qt Multithreading
• Thread Synchronization and Primitives

Mandatory computer requirements

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