Udacity Web Development course

I finally got around to completing the "Web Development" course on Udacity. I have to say the instructor Steve Hoffman has very good technical knowledge. The examples he presented are very good and "real".

It is really great to see instructors outside the academia conducting these courses. Sometime what we need is practical and realistic examples rather than hypothesising a use case.

My next target is Software Testing course.

Big thank you to Udacity for presenting these courses.

My cert :-)

Playing with Google App Engine

I am following the the Web Development (CS253) course offered by Udacity. If you do have spare time, I would recommend this course. Yes, I have worked with web technologies for few years, but this course is a good eye opener!. Above all its all free!. It is taught by Steve Huffman (co founder of reddit).

I primarily code in .NET and recently started looking at Python. I have to say, its so good, and refreshing. 

As a part of the course, we are introduced to Google App Engine. It is fantastic! 

One of the tasks in the course was to create a simple blog using Python and Google App Engine. The blog uses the Google App Engine data store, which is a massively scalable distributed database.  

If you have not used Google App Engine, have a look at today. 

My skeletal blog is here.

Udacity CS101

I completed CS101 course offered by Udacity few days ago.

I must admit that I could not get every answer correct. This is the first time I am using Python and it opened a whole new avenue for me. It really sparked my curiosity with Python.

I highly recommend this course for anyone who is interested in learning computer science.

My certificate :-)