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Google Cloud Study-Jam Workshop

As part of a new community initiative, on February 23rd 2019, a google cloud workshop was held at QU administration building.

The Department of Computer Science and engineering faculty member Eng. Abdulahi Hassen, the Computing Club students and

Google Developers Group in Doha organized the workshop. The workshop was open to all the university students and the

community in Doha. More than 60 people registered for the workshop.

In the workshop, the Google Developers Group (GDG) team

came and presented three distinct talks to the participants. The

first talk focused on the current trends in technology. The GDG

team discussed the state of the art algorithms, cloud, IoT, and

big data. Then the GDG team presented a talk on “how to be

a good leader” to help the participants gain leadership skills.

Finally, the GDG team presented two technical study jams

for the attendees. The first study jam focused on an

introductory-level quest. Participants got hands-on practice

with the Google Cloud Platform’s fundamental tools and

services. The attendees learned how to create virtual

machine instances of various machine types using the

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Console and using

the gcloud command line. They also learned how to connect

an NGINX web server to their virtual machine.

In the second study jam, the participants were introduced to Docker, an

open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. In the

study jam, the participants learned how they could build, run, and debug

Docker containers. Also, they learned how they could pull Docker images

from Docker Hub and Google Container Registry.

The workshop gave the participants the skills they can use for personal

development or career advancement. The participants also received

access to google online labs(worth 55$+) for free.