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Course Website: http://elms.umd.edu
Required Books
Hoff 2017: Explain the Cloud Like I’m 10 (Kindle)
Comer 2021: The Cloud Computing Book (available on course reserves at UMD library)
Optional Books
Technology-Specific Books
Baron 2020: AWS: The Complete Beginner’s Guide
Vergadia 2022: Visualizing Google Cloud 101
Warner 2020: Microsoft Azure for Dummies
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)
, including Cisco Packet Tracer, VMWare through DIT and VMWare IT Academy
Course Schedule and Documents: The course schedule, reading plan, assignment instructions and rubrics, research resources, and other helpful documents will be available in ELMS.
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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.
Midterm and Final: Take-home individual events to help gauge your progress.
More Details in ELMS
Resources
Approximate Weekly Schedule
Week | TopicTopics | Deliverable | ||||||||
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1 | What is Cloud Computing (Hoff) | Identity Discover Roadmap; start list of questions; complete AWS Academy Registration; Obtain software | ||||||||
2 | What is Cloud Computing (Hoff) | Complete Question Wiki | ||||||||
3 | Review of 346 | Packet Tracer Model | ||||||||
4 | Comer 1-3 4(The Motivations for Cloud, Elastic Computing and Its Advantages, Types of Clouds and Cloud Providers) | VMware Labs | ||||||||
5 | Comer 4-8 5(Data Structure Infrastructure and Equipment, Virtual Machines, Containers, Virtual Networks, Virtual Storage) | VMWare Labs | ||||||||
6 | AWS 1 - 3 6(Cloud Concepts Overview, Cloud Economics and Billing, AWS Global Infrastructure Overview) | AWS Academy Labs | ||||||||
7 | AWS 4-7 7(AWS Cloud Security, Networking and Content Delivery, Compute, Storage) | AWS Academy Labs | ||||||||
8 | AWS 8-10 8(Databases, Cloud Architecture, AutoScaling and Monitoring) | AWS Academy Labs | ||||||||
9 | Comer 9-12 | 9 | Comer | 10 | 11 | 12 | Project | 13 | Project10 (Automation, Orchestration: Automated Replication and Parallelism) | AWS Academy Labs |
10 | Comer 11-17 (The Map Reduce Paradigm, Microservices, Controller-Based Management Software, Serverless Computing and Event Processing, DevOps); Comer 16-17 (Edge Computing and IIoT, Cloud Security and Privacy, Controlling the Complexity of Cloud-Native Systems) | Big Pictures and Exploring Project Ideas | ||||||||
11 | Contrasting Cloud Services - AWS, Google, Azure | competitive analysis | ||||||||
12 | Template-Driven Project | Scaffolded Projects start | ||||||||
13 | Project | project progress | ||||||||
14 | Project | project progress | ||||||||
15 | Project | 16 | Finalproject Presentations |