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Cloud Study-Jam Workshop
As part of the department initiative to help the CSE students, on 4th of September 2019, a second google cloud study jams
workshop was held at QU CSE department. The workshop was organized by the Department of Computer Science and engineering
staff Eng. Abdulahi Hassen, Eng. Farah El-Qawasma, and Mr. Sachin Kumar who is the head of Google Developers Group in
Doha. The workshop was open to all the department students.
In the workshop, Mr. Sachin presented two topics that focused on google cloud services for the students. The first talk focused on
the current trends in technology and the importance of using cloud services. Then Mr. Sachin discussed the state of the art
algorithms, cloud, IoT, and big data. Finally, he presented one technical study jam for the attendees. The 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.
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. The participants were very
excited about what they have learned
during at the workshop, and they
were all willing to retake similar
workshops if held in the future.