Syllabus
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Course Title: Cloud Computing Fundamentalsfor Information Science
Course Number: INST 347
Term: Spring 2023Fall 2024
Credits: 3
Course Format: Online; blended. One online synchronous meeting per week with optional in-person experiences
Faculty: Dennis Frezzo and Donal Heidenblad
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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 and cloud resources via free enrollment in the AWS Academy, Cisco Skills for All including Cisco Packet Tracer, access to the AWS Academy, and VMWare through DIT and VMWare IT Academy
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Articulate and apply the major benefits of cloud computing
Decide how cloud skills pertain to their professional identity and formulate technical questions pertaining to 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 simple 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
Explain how the use and design of cloud computing systems reflect broader social and organizational structures and the related ethical and equity issues.
Course Activities:
Online Discussions and Wiki (15%): Synchronous and asynchronous to help you build relationships with other students, despite the online nature of the course, and to help you join the cloud computing community by using terminology and concepts.
Quizzes (10%): to help provide practice with feedback along the way.
Homework and Lab Activities (50%): weekly practice in the form of problems from lectures, reading, and labs
Final Project Assignment (20%): choose from a menu of options to put your skills to work, in a group
Midterm (5%): Take-home individual event to help gauge your progress.
More Details in ELMS
Approximate Weekly Schedule
Week | Topics | Deliverables |
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1 | What is Cloud Computing? Hoff, Ch. 1-14, Explain the Cloud Like I’m 10. | Identity Discover Roadmap; start list of questions; complete AWS Academy Registration; Obtain software; open identity and ethical questions |
2 | What is Cloud Computing? Hoff, Ch. 15-26, Explain the Cloud Like I’m 10. | Complete Question Wiki |
3 | What are the building blocks of cloud computing? Review of 346 relevant to Cloud Computing - Hardware, Software, Links, Networks, Security | Cisco Packet Tracer Model |
4 | Overview Comer Ch 1-3 (The Motivations for Cloud, Elastic Computing and Its Advantages, Types of Clouds and Cloud Providers) | VMware Labs |
5 | Comer Ch 4-8 (Data Structure Infrastructure and Equipment, Virtual Machines, Containers, Virtual Networks, Virtual Storage) | VMWare Labs |
6 | AWS Module 1 - 3 (Cloud Concepts Overview, Cloud Economics and Billing, AWS Global Infrastructure Overview) | AWS Academy Labs |
7 | AWS Module 4-7 (AWS Cloud Security, Networking and Content Delivery, Compute, Storage) | AWS Academy Labs |
8 | AWS Module 8-10 (Databases, Cloud Architecture, AutoScaling and Monitoring) | AWS Academy Labs |
9 | Comer Ch 9-10 (Automation, Orchestration: Automated Replication and Parallelism) | AWS Academy Labs |
10 | Highlights from Comer Ch 11-18 (The Map Reduce Paradigm, Microservices, Controller-Based Management Software, Serverless Computing and Event Processing, DevOps, 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 - make time in the course to respond to ethical, looking at the impact of what we do in the wider social environment (eg, Heroku disappearing, vendor lock-in, multicloud, take this into consideration | competitive analysis |
12 | Template-Driven Final Project | highly scaffolded projects start |
13 | Final Project | project progress |
14 | Final Project | project progress |
15 | Final Project | project Presentations |
Extra Credit | Complete the AWS Cloud Quest Game (Free Level, Cloud Practitioner) Cisco Skills for All mini-courses relevant to Cloud Computing |
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Status
09/14/22: Successful meeting with Everett. Dennis and Donal are instructor candidates in UMD AWS Academy. Dennis will pursue training and revisit syllabus draft in a few weeks. Happy to brief anyone on where we intend to go with this.
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December: presenting to committee
https://umd.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/data-and-cloud-computing-society
https://undergrad.cs.umd.edu/data-and-cloud-computing-society
https://umd-cs-stics.gitbooks.io/cmsc389l-practical-cloud-computing-spring-2018/content/
examined
Brief
Investigate creation of a follow-on course to 346 to give cloud computing for beginners more adequate coverage than is possible in 346. Separately but perhaps synergistically, ESG students have requested coursework in Cloud Computing.
Collaborator(s)
Dennis Frezzo, Donal Heidenblad, Galina Madjaroff, Tetyana Bezbabna
Preliminary Resources
AWS Cloud Quest Role-Playing Game (with Free Tier)
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https://umgc.campusconcourse.com/view_syllabus?course_id=229809
https://umd-cs-stics.gitbooks.io/cmsc389l-practical-cloud-computing-spring-2018/content/
https://www.umgc.edu/online-degrees/masters/cloud-computing-systems
https://webapps.umgc.edu/soc/us.cfm?fAcad=UGRD&fAcad2=&fSess=2228&fLoc=ALL&fSubj=CMIT
Proposed Changes to INST377
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
Build web interfaces that allow a wide range of users to interact with server-side API data sources.
Understand beginner-level version control and remote hosting of collaborative code bases
Acquire, install and maintain software that facilitates interaction between different layers of the application or site architecture.
Articulate the relationships between server and client-side technologies including web servers, API layers, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
Demonstrate knowledge of web standards including markup languages, stylesheets and scripts
Demonstrate knowledge of web protocols and options in data transaction over networks
Explain how programming is situated in and reflects social issues (e.g. racism or sexism) and describe actions that individuals or organizations are taking to counteract inequities in software and programming/technical organizations.
Explain how the use and design of relational database systems
reflect broader social and organizational structures and the
related ethical and equity issues.
More References for 347:
https://www.temjournal.com/content/111/TEMJournalFebruary2022_94_103.pdf
https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/paths/8
https://cloud.google.com/training
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/azure/