Injustice - Developers Among Us (SciFiDevCon 2024)
Teaching Cloud to the Programmers of Tomorrow
1. Teaching cloud to the
programmers of tomorrow
AN ACADEMIC CASE STUDY
@Mike_crabb
Robert Gordon University
2.
3. USE OF CLOUD ACROSS
OPERATIONS AT RGU
ORGANISATIONAL IMPACT
TEACHING WEB PROGRAMMING
(AND MORE) ON CLOUD SERVERS
USING CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS FOR
RESEARCH AND TESTING
4. LECTURER AT RGU ABERDEEN
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND DIGITAL MEDIA
CM1016 - COMPUTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS
CM3028 - WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
CM3006 - INTERNET BASED PROGRAMMING
CM4007 - INTELLIGENT WEB SYSTEMS
CMM007 - INTRANET SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
CMM503 - WEB SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
RESEARCHER
RGUX - ROBERT GORDON USER EXPERIENCE RESEARCH GROUP
ACCESSIBLE GAMES / BOARD GAMES
UX OF ACCESSIBLE SERVICES (WITH BBC R&D)
5. LECTURER AT RGU ABERDEEN
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND DIGITAL MEDIA
CM1016 - COMPUTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS
CM3028 - WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
CM3006 - INTERNET BASED PROGRAMMING
CM4007 - INTELLIGENT WEB SYSTEMS
CMM007 - INTRANET SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
CMM503 - WEB SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
RESEARCHER
RGUX - ROBERT GORDON USER EXPERIENCE RESEARCH GROUP
web development
ACCESSIBLE GAMES / BOARD GAMES
UX OF ACCESSIBLE SERVICES (WITH BBC R&D)
14. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
15. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
16. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
Chance to level the playing field
students work in teams across
degree streams
new emphasis on html5 and using
web frameworks
work with local charities /
businesses
17. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
focus on learning git, how to use
this successfully in projects
18. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
students work in teams across
degree streams
interacting with external APIs
students have to come up with
project idea
19. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
continuous deployment from
Github to Microsoft azure
Microsoft ‘webapp’ option
20. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
year long paid
placement with
industry
work on a variety
of projects, not
necessarily cloud
based
optional year
students come back
with a better
understanding of
what they want to
do
21. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
students work in teams across
degree streams
creating web applications that
interact with a database
project idea based around a
predetermined task
22. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
continuous deployment from
Github to Microsoft azure
Microsoft ‘webapp’ and clearDB
23. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
24. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
students work individually on
a web project
creation of a web application
and deployment of web server
increased focus on securing
systems
25. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
students get $100 of credit
for 6 months
26. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
Make
Break
Fix stuff
27. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)