1. Course Information

2. Course resources All course materials (slides, links to recorded lectures, online quiz, assignments, course project, and online exams) will be posted on course website at https://csmoodle2.kennesaw.edu

3. Class Format This course will use hybrid approach by leveraging our distance learning technology On Tuesday, we meet at classroom and I will give live lectures. All lectures will be recorded for you to review. On Thursday, you will watch recorded lectures and work on weekly quiz and assignment.

4. Course Project Everybody is required to work on course project I will provide a variety of course project options for you to choose from. Some sample types of course project: – Software Development on GPUs – Android Development with Google Cloud Service – Explore P2P Networks for Computer Science Education – Install and Configure Virtual Beowulf Clusters Using Amazon EC2 server Instances – ……

5. Project encourages Self-Explorative Work Project encourages Creative Work Project requires a deep understanding of the subject you are working on

6. Weekly Quizzes We will have a weekly quizzes – Test if you study the lectures (recorded lectures). Weekly quizzes are straightforward – cover some important points in my lectures (recorded lectures).

7. Assignments Assignments are hand-on exercises on learned subjects.

8. Exams Both Midterm Exams and Final Exams will be Served on csmoodle2.

9. Evaluation of Course Performance Weekly Quizzes 15% Assignments 15% Midterm Exam 20% Final Exam 20% Course project 30%

10. Reference Books “Distributed and Cloud Computing – From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things” “Cloud Computing Explained” 2/e Books are not required.

11. Questions