Engineering Software as a Service. 2nd Edition Beta.

Posted by Tom

Three years ago, my advisor, Prof. Kristen Walcott[1], introduced me to an excellent set of software engineering curriculum that she was using and had used, in part, to stand up a software engineering course at UCCS (the first of its kind). The curriculum was developed at UC Berkley by Prof. Armando Fox[2] and Prof. David Patterson[3] in partnership with EdX[4]. More than 20,000 students earned certificates from these online courses since 2012, and more than 100,000 have completed parts of the course. Over the summer, I had the opportunity to collaborate with Dr. Fox and review/update the JavaScript chapter for the 2nd edition. Today, I received the new beta edition of the book in the mail. Thankful for the opportunity.

References

  1. cs.uccs.edu/~kjustice/
  2. armandofox.com
  3. www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/patterson.html
  4. edx.org/course/introduction_to_agile_software_development

Knocking Down Barriers for CS Education

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Students deserve the best education regardless of socioeconomic factors and the pandemic has been widening the equity gaps. Last semester I found many of my CS students relied heavily on school computers to do their assignments. I’ve spent the last two weeks working nights and weekends to build a platform which can run as a #SaaS or on-prem. Students will be able to dev using a web browser on a platform that scales using #Kubernetes. Teachers can create #dev #environments for their students with a few clicks and schools can use their existing infrastructure (yes, even behind a firewall as long as the nodes can reach the internet) with the self hosted application.