Course summary

Designed for graduates without a computing background, the course is specially designed to build up your fundamental computing skills required to achieve in the advanced topic of cloud development.

How you learn

This course starts by helping you develop your fundamental computing skills that are the building blocks of cloud technologies. This includes programming, database development, and web development. These are taught around a professional software development lifecycle using a project-based learning approach with industry-based projects. Through this approach, you will develop both technical and professional skills needed in the industry by taking ownership of your applied projects while being fully supported throughout the learning process. This further embraces and encourages students to contribute their diverse backgrounds to applied projects.

Building upon those foundational skills, you will start to develop your research skills alongside your specialisation into cloud technologies. Cloud technologies is a fast-growing field where you will learn how to develop and deploy techniques and technologies including:

• Deployment models
• System architectures (N-tier, Monolithic, Microservices)
• MVC a design pattern for structuring application code within these architectures
• Virtualisation (Virtual Machines and Containerisation)
• Frameworks (Django a Python web framework)
• User-Interface (React)
• Version Control (GitHub)
• Microsoft Azure cloud services

The teaching strategy integrates critical thinking, analysis, and synthesis to systematically devise solutions. You will be using industry-based projects to enhance your learning while continuously developing professional skills that prepare you for the real-world challenges in your future career.