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'''Tuesday, January 10, 2012 8 to 10am'''
This session is for all developers planning to migrate existing slicer3 modules to slicer4 or start a new project from scratch in slicer4.


==Overview and Architecture==
* Steve (10 minutes) [[AHM2012-Slicer-Introduction|Introduction]]
** Capabilities
** Release Schedule
** Goals
** Ongoing Slicer4 projects and collaborations (NAC, NCIGT, CTK, Supplements...)
* Jc (10 minutes)  [[AHM2012-Slicer-Architecture|Architecture]]
** Modularization Object Specialization
*** Qt Widgets <- CTK Widgets <- MRML Widgets <- Slicer Widgets
*** vtkObject <- MRMLLogic <- Module Logic
** Displayable Managers
** Views and Layouts

== Module Creation and Migration ==
* Steve (5 minutes) [http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Documentation/4.0/Developers/ModuleWizard Module Wizard]
* Jim (10 minutes)
** [[Media:Slicer4 CLI.ppt|CLI Modules]]
** Creating a CLI from existing C++ code
** Migrating CLI Modules to ITK version 4
* J2: Loadable Modules (20 minutes)
** Structure of a Loadable Module
** Specialization of Module Classes
** Integration with Designer
* Steve:  [[AHM2012-Slicer-Python|Scripted Modules and Python Console]] (20 minutes)
** What is accessible via python
** Using the console (See [http://vimeo.com/33236047 J2's excellent demo video])
** Writing a Scripted Module
*** PythonQt interface
*** Logic with vtk/vtkITK/CLI Modules
*** Accessing MRML Data via numpy
** Refining the code and UI with slicerrc
** Limitations of python
* Demian: [[Whole-Brain-Tractography-Wizard|Whole Brain Tractography]] (10 minutes)
** Python wizard example
** Discussion of interactions among modules
** How to build on the dMRI module

== Testing Infrastructure ==
* Benjamin (20 minutes)
** What is QtTesting/How it work.
** Tests for each widgets
** Limits : RenderWindow and GUI Testing
** Slicer integration
** What's next ?

== Documentation ==
* Jc (10 minutes) [[AHM2012-Slicer-Documentation|Documentation]]
** How to write end user documentation for your module
** Source code naming and documentation style
** CMake documentaiton

== Extensions ==
* Jc (20 minutes) [[AHM2012-Slicer-Extension|Extension]]
** Writing an s4ext file
** Testing your extension
** How users will access your extension