Course Desc<x>ription:
<br>  This course teaches cloud computing concepts and cloud programming skills 
<br>on the real cloud platforms(AWS/Openstack).
<br>  The course will be mixed between labs and lectures.   
<br>  The goal of this class is to let you be able to implement a diverse range 
<br>of applications in a short period time by taking advantage of a cloud 
<br>platform. 
<br>  Therefore, a final project will be taken place in the form of a semi-
<br>hackathon event.(Explain in details below.)
<br>  Some coding assignments will also be given after each lab, so the loading 
<br>won't be light, and be prepared to spend time and efforts on this course.
<br> 
<br>Course Agenda:
<br>PartI: Introduction (All lectures: 2.5 weeks)
<br>(1)Cloud Computing Intro
<br>(2)BigData & IoT Intro
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<br>PartII: Public Cloud Platform: AWS (All labs: 6.5 weeks)
<br>(1) Compute: EC2, Beanstalk, Lambda
<br>(2) Management: Auto-scaling, Load-balancer, Cloud Watch, SQS, Cloud 
<br>Formation
<br>(3) Storage: S3, EBC, RDS, Elastic Cache
<br>(4) Data analysis: CloudSearch, Kinesis
<br>(5) Mobile & IoT: Cognito, API Gateway, Mobile SDK, IoT platform
<br>
<br>PartIII: Private Cloud Platform: Openstack (All labs: 3 weeks)
<br>(1)Compute: VM, Container
<br>(2)Storage: ob<x>ject store, Elastic Block Storage
<br>(3)Management: Monitoring, Scaling
<br>
<br>PartIV: Distributed computing fr<x>ameworks (2 weeks)
<br>(1)MapReduce (Lecture)
<br>(2)Hadoop (Lecture)
<br>(3)Spark (Lecture)
<br>(4)AWS EMR, Openstack Sahara (Labs)
<br>
<br>
<br>Grading:
<br>70% Lab assignments
<br>30% Final Project (Start from the last month of the semester)
<br>  Part I(10%): Hackathon(A topic will be given, and you(as a team) need to 
<br>implement its application on one of the cloud platform in 12 hours.)
<br>  Part II(15%): You are given 3 weeks to refine your work
<br>  Part III(5%): Presentation & Demonstration in the class
<br>
<br>Prerequisite:
<br>  None. But you should be good at programming, and the main programming 
<br>language in this class will be Python (with some Jave and Scala).
<br>
<br>(All information above is still tentative and subject to changes.)