19 febbraio 2025
Collegio Raffaello (Piazza della Repubblica 13, Urbino)

PROGRAMMA
ore 09.00-10.00 presentazione del Corso di Laurea in Informatica – Scienza e Tecnologia – Aula Turing
ore 10.00-11.00 lezione di  Architettura degli Elaboratori- Aula Olivetti
ore 11.00-12.00 lezione di Analisi Matematica 1 – Aula Turing
ore 12.00-13.00 incontro con gli studenti del Corso di Laurea in Informatica – Scienza e Tecnologia –  Sala Incisori

È obbligatorio iscriversi al seguente link: https://forms.gle/nZWftsnUzPTMBYmD8 entro le ore 13.00 del 17/02/2025.

L’iniziativa, a partecipazione gratuita, è aperta a studentesse e studenti delle classi quinte delle scuole secondarie superiori.
Viene rilasciato un certificato di partecipazione.

La locandina dell’evento è disponibile qui.

A trial lesson is planned on October, 10 at 6.00 pm. First year students shouldn’t miss this opportunity to get all the information they need, ask all the questions they have, and test our learning platform and chat.

When the program executes, keypress events are treated as if they were generated by the local keyboard and received by the focus window.

This provides a very simple and general mechanism to grant collective control of any Scratch project to an arbitrary number of people taking part to an instant poll.

To use DirectPollMonitor:

• 1. Download the DirectPollMonitor archive (requires .NET 4.5.2)
• 2. Extract DirectPollMonitor into a local folder of your choice
• 3. Open a Command Prompt on that folder
• 4. Launch the DirectPollMonitor from command line using as a parameter the URL of the DirectPoll result page
• 5. Start the DirectPoll and invite the audience to vote
• 6. Change the keyboard focus to the Scratch project

In order to make sure that all keypress events are properly received by the Scratch project, it is recommended that the window in which the Scratch project executes keeps the keyboard focus for the entire duration of the poll. Hence, it is better to control the poll from a different computer, while leaving in background the Command Prompt Terminal in which DirectPollMonitor executes.

A standard poll has been created for testing purposes. It has only 5 options associated with keys A, B, C, D, and E. Hence, it can be used to control any Scratch project designed to react to these keypress events.

Provide this link to the audience: http://etc.ch/SAA2

Pass this URL to DirectPollMonitor: http://directpoll.com/r?XDbzPBd3ixYqg8WPz06HavXHDMrW9iAfEQDf3Tuc2U

Use this simple Scratch project reacting to keys A, B, and C to test the remote control: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/109658618/ (the name of the project has been typed by the audience…).

DirectPollMonitor was tested for the first time on ScratchDay 2016 during a public webinar attended by many Italian School teachers with their pupils. Several Scratch projects were developed during the webinar and controlled in real time by more than 100 people. Here is the video log.

Sources files to be published on GitHub.

The conference was held in the imposing conference center Lingotto in Turin, nicely bathed in sun and nice weather, with more than 700 participants from over 21 different countries.

Saverio and Lorenz after getting their badges. As you can see, badges = bliss.

Last year’s event was marked by an unmanageable epidemy of Google Glass-wearing speakers. The 2015 edition fortunately marked a switch from Google’s glasses to more discreet Android Wear based watches. A nice advantage, from a stylistic perspective at the least.

Because of that, many sessions were actually focused on Android Wear and Android Auto, the brand new platforms where our favorite green droid is expanding into. Many other talks during the two intense days of DroidCon where instead focused on the intersection between Android and the Internet of Things: for instance interesting stuff about iBeacons and (a bit discouraging) experiments on proximity monitoring by Matteo Gazzurelli.

Apart from software development, one of the most discussed topics was actually user experience (or “UX”): Lydia Selimalhigazi and Roberto Orgiu gave a nice overview on why developers and designers need to stick together and help each other in order to obtain results without (too much) conflict. The same topic was taken on, from a branding perspective, during the stimulating talk by Marie Schweiz on how the specific features of a brand influence the user experience (not only the logo, that is).

Another totally different point of view on “user experience”: Kentaro Takiguchi gave a very nice talk “Improving UX through Performance” with an in-depth overview of those little optimizations that can be applied, both on the app and on the server side, in order to improve an app’s fluidity, reliability and responsiveness. An interesting bag of tricks for scenarios where even shaving off 4 KBs from a remote request can have a great impact.

Benjamin Augustin made clear that in fact software development can, at times, be a hellish affair. However, in order to free developers from pain, a growing number of libraries and tools are being worked on. One of those libraries is in fact RxJava, the Java port of the Reactive extensions originally created for .NET: those extensions offer a nice way to “invert” how your code work, by adopting a “reactive” coding paradigm which is very well suited to manage the interactions between user interface and an unreliable backend (like network access, for instance).

Likewise, Maciej Górski presented several ways, especially using Gradle plug-ins, to reduce the amount of “boilerplate” code developers need to write (for instance getter and setter methods for Java classes). Also very interesting: the “Holy Sync!” session by Eugenio Marletti, about cross-platform synchronization methods, using CouchBase.

“Test, test and test!” was the mantra of several other talks, in particular the one given by the always funny Ali Derbane e Wiebe Elsinga (don’t even try pronouncing his name, you’ll fail) who during their talk “The hitchhiker’s guide to functional testing” gave an overview of most functional testing suites available for Android. Stephan Linzner instead showed the glorious new tools developed at the Google mothership for its mobile developers.

Finally, at 12 o’clock of the first day, pushed by hunger more than anything else, our Lorenz gave his talk “The love child of Android and .NET: using Xamarin for app development” about all our recent experiences using the Xamarin platform for Android development during the last year. Slides can be downloaded as PPTX as well.

Gave us the necessary energy between sessions: the Cola from Turin!

After two very intense days we left Turin exhausted, but encouraged and inspired by many new things to check out, technologies to use in our projects and details to keep in mind while developing on Android (and not only)! Looking forward for next year!

The University of Urbino awards 1 credit to students who enrol to Applied Computer Science for Academic Year 2015/2016 having already obtained Code.org certificates signed by their School teachers. This initiative is aimed at contributing to the early development of computational thinking skills, by encouraging secondary schools to adopt Code.org instruments as proposed by Ministry of Education and Consorzio CINI with the “Programma il Futuro” initiative.

The University of Urbino has always worked together with schools to provide early learning opportunities based on playful and intuitive methods: It has took part since the first editions to Computer Science Education Week and Europe Code Week, it has launched the Code’s Cool learning community, it led the Italian participation to Europe Code Week 2014 with CodeWeek ambassador Alessandro Bogliolo, and it’s now offering a MOOC to support school teachers who want to adopt Code.org instruments.

This initiative gives to Italian schools the opportunity to take their students to conquest their first university credit!

The introductory course of Code.org offers approximately 20 hours of playful interactive activities which introduce the main coding principles, contributing to the development of computational thinking and problem solving skills. The MOOC completes the course by showing how to put the concepts into practice to develop original mobile applications. School teachers can directly manage a virtual classroom, which gives them the online instruments to monitor and certify the progress of their pupils. The certificate of completion will be recognized by the University of Urbino in case of enrollment.

“The credit that will be recognized is deserved – says Alessandro Bogliolo, coordinator of the School of Information Science and Technology of the University of Urbino – Students who enrol to a University degree program having already developed basic computational thinking skills are predisposed to learning computer science, are fully aware of the meaning and power of coding, and they are familiar with visual programming tools and teaching methods that are complementary and preparatory to academic study.”

People who is no longer at school can take advantage of the MOOC individually by registering to the virtual class directly managed by Alessandro Bogliolo, who will certify the completion. Certification will be recognized in case of enrollment to the Laurea degree program in Applied Computer Science, delivered both on campus and at the distance.

Additional information can be requested at cdl.informatica@uniurb.it

An effective infographic by European Schoolnet published by Debating Europe provides a comparison between the ICT skills required to find a job and the ones provided at school.

The ICT skill gap is apparent and it is expected to cause 900,000 unfilled ICT positions by 2020.

Students are eligible to apply for ISEP Exchange programs at the U.S. institutions listed here.

To find out what benefits are included in the scholarship and for the procedure application, please see the Notice of Selection (in IT only).

The application deadline is May 29, 2015. 

Applications must be submitted by December 7.

Check out the highlights of last edition.