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• Course Website: http://elms.umd.edu

• eBooks available through the library, links within ELMS, so book purchase NOT required; paperbacks are available on AmazonSeeking ebooks:

  • Comer 2021: The Cloud Computing Book (free on reserve already)

  • Hoff 2017: Explain the Cloud Like I’m 10 (not yet available as ebook)

  • Vergadia 2022: Visualizing Google Cloud 101

  • Other eBooks as needs and opportunities arise

• Laptop (or desktop) computer onto which you can install software, and with an Internet Connection to ELMS and other services for labs and activities:

• Free software as needs and opportunities arise

• Smartphone, especially for audio and video recording to help with qualitative user research and to try small usability experiments

• Office supplies for low-fidelity prototyping (to be specified)

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• Articulate and apply the major benefits of cloud computing

• Build simple models of physical and virtual cloud computing infrastructure

• Differentiate amongst compute, storage, database, and network functions in the cloud

• Analyze major cloud service provider’s services

• Design and implement a cloud solution with architectural, economic, and security constraints

• Design and critically evaluate existing designs for cloud computing users from diverse backgrounds with varying needs, applying anti-racist perspectives to ensure usability needs are met

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• Online Discussions: to help you build relationships with other students despite the online nature of the course and to help you join the design community by using terminology and concepts.

• Quizzes: to help provide practice with feedback along the way.

• Homework Activities: to help you work through recorded lectures, home lab activities, web links, and online textbook reading, weekly.

• Project Assignments: we will learn and use a cloud computing resources, online labs. One extra credit opportunity after Spring Break will be made available as part of the final project.   

• Midterm and Final: Take-home individual events to help gauge your progress.

• More Details in ELMS

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