Qt MOOC material

Here is a brief summary of the topics of the course.

Introduction - Introduction to the course

• Everything required for starting the course
• Workspace setup
• Documentation
• Help channels
• Workflow introduction
• Course tools introduction

Part 1 - Qt Essentials

• Introductory topics:

1. Creating and debugging Qt projects
   Hello world!
2. String handling and value types
   Basic string manipulation (min: QString + QChar + QCodec, creating, concatenation + light-weight use with QLatin1String
3. Item Containers
   Adding, iterating, manipulating data in item containers
4. QObject - Subclassing
   Custom QObjects with properties, enums
5. Parent-Child relationship
   Qt memory management with object trees
6. Object Communicating: Signals and Slots
   Observer pattern: Object communication with signals and slots
7. Object Communicating: The differences between queued connections and direct connections
   The differences between queued connections and direct connections
8. Object Communicating: Event Handlers
   Customising event handling
9. Object Communicating: Custom Events
   Custom events and event handling
10. Smart Pointers - QPointer, QScopedPointer
    Memory management with Qt smart pointers
11. Shared Pointers
    Managing object copies with shared pointers (does not have to be between threads)
12. Streaming
    Meta-type system, File I/O
13. Implicitly Shared Custom Type
    Copy-on-write pattern in value objects, implicit sharing

• Short basic assignments that account for 50%ish of the assignments of the week
• One bigger assignment completed step by step trough implementing the required topics of learning from Week 1 resulting in a complete application

Part 2 - Qt Quick UI:s

• User Interface creation using Qt Quick:

1. QML Hello World
   Hello world v2! To be able to develop, build and run a simple QML application
2. Rectangle, Image, BorderImage, Text
   Basic QML items
3. Key Handling
   Controlling focus and handling key presses
4. Mouse Handling
   Mouse handling with MouseArea
5. Gestures
   Swipe, flick and pinch handling
6. Handlers
   Handling multiple touch events in a single item
7. Positioners
   Grouping items with positioners
8. Anchors
   UI scaling with anchors
9. Components: Properties, Signals
   Creating components and component interfaces
10. Re-usable Components
    How to create good, re-usable components
11. Qt Quick Controls
    The Qt Quick Controls module
12. Global Object
    What is a global object?
13. Behavior
    Basic animation
14. Nested Animations
    Creating eye candy with nested animations
15. State Machines
    Fluid UI with state machines and animations
16. Graphics Effects
    Basic ready-made eye candy
17. Basic Particle System: Emitter, Particle
    Eye candy with particle effects

• Short basic assignments that account for 50%ish of the assignments of the week
• TBA

Part 3 - Data-centric Apps

• Manipulating and presenting data using QML:

1. List model manipulation
   Basic QML model and JS manipulation
2. XML List Model
   XML parsing in QML
3. Hierarchical Models
   Tree model
4. ListView vs TreeView
   List vs Tree
5. Standard Item Model
   Model/View framework basics
6. Custom Table Model
   Advanced Model/View
7. Basic Delegate
   TBA
8. Grid vs TableView
   Use Cases
9. Dynamic Delegate - Loader
   Good delegate implementation
10. Charts
    TBA
11. Data Visualization
    TBA

• Short basic assignments that account for 50%ish of the assignments of the week
• TBA

Part 4 - C++ and QML

• Combining C++ with QML:

1. Context Properties
   How to communicate between C++ and QML
2. Context Objects
   TBA
3. Calling QML from C++ and vice versa
   TBA
4. Registration
   TBA
5. QML Plugins
   Right way of doing registration
6. Custom QObjects
   Deriving good types for QML
7. QPainter
   TBA
8. Custom Painted Items
   TBA
9. Scene Graph Item
   TBA

• Short basic assignments that account for 50%ish of the assignments of the week
• TBA

Part 5 - Inter-Process Communication and Multitasking

• Communication between processes and threads :

1. JS Workers
   Worker limitation
2. List Manipulation
   Worker use case
3. QtConcurrent
   TBA
4. Container Manipulation with QtConcurrent
   TBA
5. QRunnable
   TBA
6. Thread Affinity
   Right way to handle threads
7. Sync/Mutual Exclusion
   TBA
8. Thread Cleanup
   Good practices
9. Inter-Thread Communication
   TBA
10. IPC: Shared Memory
    TBA
11. IPC: File Watcher
    TBA
12. IPC: Remote Objects TBA

• Short basic assignments that account for 50%ish of the assignments of the week
• TBA

Part 6 - Application Engine

• TBA:

1. Plugins
   TBA
2. XML and JSON Handling
   TBA
3. Networking
   TBA
4. Bluetooth?
   TBA
5. Sensors
   TBA
6. Maps Routing
   TBA
7. Media Player
   TBA
8. Subtitles
   TBA
9. SQL Databases
   TBA
10. Webengine
    TBA
11. Hybrid Apps
    TBA

• Short basic assignments that account for 50%ish of the assignments of the week
• TBA

Part 7 - TBA

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Here are our plans and outlines for the Qt Mooc course materials.

This is the original material outline repository which contains the work in progress that is the Qt Mooc course material.
These pages are used for content creation and do not in all cases represent a finished product. In most cases they represent a construction site where we recommend you take the stairs, instead of the elevator. The elevator will be implemented in 2020. This is also the repository where the completed course exercises can be found.

https://github.com/TestMyQt/material-outline/wiki