How.Camp Sofia

Are you an Angular developer who always wanted to build an iOS or Android app? Good news! NativeScript is a free and open-source runtime for building native apps with skills you already have – Angular, TypeScript, CSS, and npm. The best part? NativeScript renders truly native UIs – giving your users the best performance and UX their devices can offer.

In this workshop you’ll learn how NativeScript works and how to leverage it to build your next mobile app. Then, you’ll dive in and use NativeScript to build an iOS and Android app from scratch.

If haven’t yet learned Angular v2+, you’ll learn fundamental concepts while we go along.

In this workshop you will bring your mobile device and laptop, with the software being discussed installed, and have the unique opportunity to learn hands-on, following along with an instructor step-by-step.

This workshop will give you better understanding of how WebAssembly works in reality. We are going to talk about the Web and how WebAssembly is involved. We will focus on loading WebAssembly with JavaScript, communication between WebAssembly and JavaScript, security, performance, memory management. As WebAssembly is a compilation target, we will use C / C++ as a source. You don't need to have any prior experience in C or C++, though it would be useful. Knowledge in C# or Java would help as well. We are going to explore the compilation process in-depth using Emscripten and its API. At the end of the workshop you will have broader knowledge of how WebAssembly works, you will be able to compile to WebAssembly and load wasm modules in your web app.

Prerequisites: Your own laptop with Emscripten installed as described on the official site https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/getting_started/downloads.html

A wicked problem has no best solution and is difficult or impossible to solve comprehensively because of contradictory needs, requirements, or outcomes. This is a hands-on workshop where we will focus on crafting designs and making design and product decisions when possible solutions are in conflict or where there is no optimal solution. We will introduce some methods to help identify, define, and frame the wicked problems and the challenges they present. We will discuss some real examples, then break into workgroups and participate in hands-on collaborative exercises. Attendees are invited to bring their own wicked problems for use in the workshop exercises and for collective discussion.

Design Thinking
Do you want to find a way through innovation? Design Thinking is the way that is used by the most innovative companies nowadays. Whatever your occupation is, design thinking is your team’s wonderful tool to be more creative. Design Thinking stresses the importance of cultivating empathy for end users, interpreting and framing problems they experience, creative solution generation, and continuous prototyping and testing.

On this workshop, you’ll develop an understanding about the philosophy of Design Thinking. You will learn and practice about the process as well as methods and some tools to analyze user needs, generating ideas and prototyping. You will also get the chance to apply these methods as groups by solving a challenge during the workshop. You will explore how human-centered design can help develop innovative solutions for the complex challenges you face.

Participants do not need to have any background with design.