如何教大學生雲端運算(Cloud Computing)？

當初會到學校教書，一個主要的原因是為了滿足自己的求知慾。在學校，興趣一來，想學甚麼就學甚麼，還可以呼朋引伴，招集幾個學生，申請幾個計畫，還沒開始做出甚麼東西，就對外宣稱是專家 :-)

我從不懂雲端運算，花了幾個月，憑著過去軟硬體和大小電腦都有涉獵過的經驗，加上每周去孔祥重院士的班上學習，勉強到略知一二的程度，現在能夠一邊學，一邊和學生一起做研究，樂趣無窮。

趨勢科技捐給台大資工一個雲端運算學程，要我們開些雲端相關課程，給學程招收的大學部學生上課。負責規劃的教授點名要我開【平行與分散式程式設計】，教Parallel algorithms/MapReduce/MPI/OpenMP/CUDA，一聽就傻眼了，這些東西，要在一個學期教完，連一般研究生都會哇哇叫，何況是大學部學生，中間夾雜一部分的非本系生?

還好，我喜歡開新課。過去五年來，每年至少開一門新課，迄今也開過八門課，再多一門也無妨。九月要上這門課，早點開始準備就是了。 各方高手請幫幫忙，提供意見。

幾年教下來，對於大學部學生，一本好的教科書很重要。開始收集到時候可當作參考教科書，暑假就跟學生開個讀書會，把這些書的內容搞清楚，順便把教材編出來:

第一本書
Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security

By John W. Rittinghouse and James F. Ransome (2010)

Chapter 1 The Evolution of Cloud Computing
Chapter 2 Web Services Delivered from the Cloud
Chapter 3 Building Cloud Networks
Chapter 4 Virtualization Practicum
Chapter 5 Federation, Presence, Identity, and Privacy in the Cloud
Chapter 6 Security in the Cloud
Chapter 7 Common Standards in Cloud Computing
Chapter 8 End-User Access to Cloud Computing
Chapter 9 Mobile Internet Devices and the Cloud

 如書名，作者著重在實務，把許多基礎的東西，不厭其煩講了一次，可以當成入門練基本功的教材 。

CMU使用的教科書和參考書
15-319: Introduction to Cloud Computing
Carnegie Mellon Qatar - School of Computer Science, Spring 2010
http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/~msakr/15319-s10/

Textbook:

• Tom White, Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, O'Reilly Media, 2009.

Mostly reading journal and conference publications on the subject. In addition, it will be useful to have the following reference books:

• Tanenbaum and van Steen, Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, Pearson, 2007.
• Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg, George Coulouris, Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, Fourth Edition, Addison Wesley, 2005. 
• Randal E. Bryant and David R. O'Hallaron, Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective, Prentice Hall, 2003.
• Patterson and Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, Fourth Edition, Morgan Kaufmann/Elsvier.
• Jason Venner, Pro Hadoop, Apress, 2009.

(未完，待續)