day1 fb course
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5 steps1: Problem Definition
2: Solution Design
3: Build & Release
5: Revenue & Presentation
4: Observation & Re-release
• Pilot Course
• Problem and Idea Generation
• Social Dynamics
• HTML – Client Side
• PHP – Server Side
• SQL - Databases
• Testing – Alpha/Beta
• Observational skills
• Group work
• Expert Advice
• Presentation skills
• Perfect
• School
• Individual
• Facebook Connect
• New FB features
• Fan pages, profiles etc
• Beyond HTML , PHP, SQL
• Full blown programming course
What’s the point in doing a course like this?
Where can learning to make Facebook apps take me?
Success
Back to the start…
Any setbacks?
YES!
How much effort?
80 hour weeks, never less then 40.
No Holiday, every bank holiday is a work day.
No time for fun and games. (but wants to travel after Sharkiusgames)
Stuff to take away…
You have to focus on one thing at a time and make sure you do it properly before you give up on it!
He didn’t believe that “it cant be done”.
1. What’s an app?
2. How do we generate Ideas for apps?
3. What’s Facebook?
4. What makes a good Facebook App?
What’s an app?
A
B
C
People have problems
Problems have solutions
Solutions can be turned into apps
We have to look for problems!
How can we generate Ideas?
What is Facebook? What can you do on it?
Why Facebook?
Graph API
Open up Facebook, search for Social graph and install
Have a look at all your connections!
http://graph.facebook.com/platform
http://www.facebook.com/platform
Try going to these two sites, the first is the Facebook platform site, the second
is how it is represented in the social graph, what’s the difference?
Does everyone have a Facebook username and know it?
•Go to Account•Account Settings•Take a note of your username or create one by clicking change•Log out of Facebook
http://graph.facebook.com/username
Now try visiting the site below, replace “username” with your own
FB username, what happens?
http://graph.facebook.com/username/picture
Now try the following link to see if you can see your profile picture.
http://graph.facebook.com/username?metadata=1
To see all the connections for your social graphs add “metadata=1”
http://graph.facebook.com/username/friends
What happens when you try looking at friends of a user? Try
the example below.
Facebook Platform uses the Oauth protocol for authentication and authorization
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer