Syllabus Fall 2020

Syllabus

ENGR 1166: Foundations of Engineering - Z81 (11981)

Fall 2020

Instructor: John A. Iacovacci/Tendai Gomo

John.iacovacci1@gmail.com; john.iacovacci@uconn.edu; Tendai@tendaigomo.com

Lectures Wednesday 6:20-8:50 pm webex

Meeting Link

https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m0626ff83b00886bfe704327d32741ac7

Meeting password

GoogleENGR1166

Office hours Monday and Thursday 5:00pm to 6:30pm

Office hours link

https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/meet/jai17003

Office Hours link

Google Cloud

https://cloud.google.com/

215 Stamford Downtown Campus

Our Class Website is

 https://googleclouduconn.blogspot.com/

Book: 

Google Cloud Platform in Action JJ Geewax

eBook: https://livebook.manning.com/book/google-cloud-platform-in-action

Catalog Description

ENGR 1166 -  Provides an in depth study of the Google cloud platform.

We will be focusing on learning various aspects of the google cloud and building small projects
related to cloud concepts. The class format is based upon first half lecture then second half
hands on workshop.The environment is hosted at cloud.google.com.

$300 of cloud services is budgeted for each student by google
. A credit card is needed to get google credit.

Objectives

At the end of the course, the students should be able to understand and be able to develop on the
google cloud. The concepts will include virtual machines, MySQL, NoSQL, Big Data, document
storage, Linux, HTML/CSS, Javascript, node.js, Python, GitHub, leveraging Google  API’s,
cloud functions.

General Requirements & Expectations

1. Attendance: Students are expected to attend all lectures. Attendance will be taken.

Reading and assignments are required. Each class will have assignments required as well as projects
due at different times during the term.

2. Make sure you check your UCONN.EDU e-mail account regularly, or have it forwarded to an
account that you use regularly. Otherwise you may miss important announcements.

Grading Percentages

Description Percent of course grade

Class assignments:  30%

Projects: 3 Projects will be assigned during the term plus term paper 70%

Schedule

9/2/2020	Week 1 Chapter 1. What is the Cloud / linux
9/7/2020	Week 2 Chapter 2. Deploying Wordpress / HTML CSS
9/16/2020	Week 3 Chapter 3. The Data Center / Javascript / Web SItes
9/23/2020	Week 4 Chapter 4. Cloud SQL / MySQL / GitHub
9/30/2020	Week 5 Chapter 12/13. Cloud Functions / DNS - node.js
10/7/2020	Week 6 Chapter 8. Cloud Storage
10/14/2020	Week 7 Chapter 6/7. Large Scale SQL & Big Table, NoSQL
10/21/2020	Week 8 Chapter 9/10. Compute Engine , Python
10/28/2020	Week 9 Chapter 11. App Engine
11/4/2020	Week 10 Chapter 5. Document Storage - GitHub
11/11/2020	Week 11 Chapter 14/15. Cloud Vision /Text Analysis
11/18/2020	Week 12 Chapter 16/17. Cloud Speech / Translations
11/25/2020	off
12/2/2020	Week 13 Chapter 19/20. Big Query / Dataflow
12/16/2020	All project work due

Academic Honesty

Students should refer to the Student Code (see section on Academic Integrity -

http://www.dos.uconn.edu/student_code.html) for specific guidelines.

Students with disabilities who believe they may need accommodations in this class are encouraged

to contact the Center for Students with Disabilities (486-2020) as soon as possible to better ensure
that such accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion.