We invite you to a series of Windows Phone 7 Student Camps in different cities of Russia

Over the past month we have already had several Windows Phone 7 Student Camps . At such events, students gather who want to learn how to create applications for Windows Phone 7, where they unite in one day in teams, come up with an idea and create real applications. Now we are ready to scale this very successful activity in several cities of Russia at once.







We invite all students who want to visit Windows 7 Student Camps in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Tomsk and Moscow:

• November 19 - St. Petersburg , together with the Ingria Technopark. You must register .
• November 22 - Tomsk , based on the Microsoft Innovation Center at TPU.
• November 25 - Ekaterinburg , based on the Microsoft Innovation Center in UrFU
• November 29 and December 9 (the event is divided into 2 days) - Moscow , based on the Microsoft Innovation Center at MEI
• November 29 - Moscow , based on the Microsoft Innovation Center at HSE (information about registration will be later)
• December 2 - St. Petersburg , based on the Microsoft Innovation Center at SPbSPU

To participate in events is recommended to register. For more information, see the links above. At each of the events you can:

• Listen to introductory reports about how to write programs for the phone. Programming skills in languages ​​like C # or Java will be useful, but other prior knowledge about programming the phone is not required.
• Come up with the idea of ​​the application , find like-minded people in the team and develop a prototype of the application - with the help of Microsoft experts who will be able to prompt and answer many questions.
• Register for free on the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace and post a preliminary version of your application there.
• Understand how you can continue to make better money on distributing your application.
• Learn how to participate in the student competition Imagine Cup and in the competition of applications Windows Phone 7.
• Ask questions on developing for Windows Phone if you have already tried to do this.

In addition, you can get acquainted with active students from different universities and have a good time in the company of people interested in technology.

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To get the most out of the event, you must:

• Register in advance . When registering, be sure to include your first name, surname, place of study. The absence of these data may cause a refusal to register - because the event is intended for students.
• Share your event with your friends and bring them with you - it will be much more fun and productive to work together
• Coming to the event with a laptop to work on it right on it! If possible, pre-install Windows Phone Developer Tools on your laptop
  
  
• Make sure you are registered with DreamSpark and register for free on the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace . This can be done on the spot (including getting the code for DreamSpark), but it is better to do it in advance so as not to waste time at the event.
• Come up with a few ideas for useful applications for the mobile platform that you can work on at the event. But even if you do not have interesting ideas, come anyway, because in the course of communication, ideas are usually born themselves.

See you soon at Student Camps!