Let's get our hands cloudy

Course Description

Getting our hands Cloudy with new online apps
Ahmad Sohrabi
David Leibovitz
Robert West
Through stories, videos, virtual 3D world, and AI, we walk you through the state of art in the current cloud based apps on your cellphones, tablets, or laptops. However, the main thing to bring with you is your necktop (brain). As our brain in our skull, attached to our neck, is connected to the world through senses and movements, current digital devices can benefit from connecting to the cloud world far beyond our daily use of online apps, by sharing with you to understand how they work and how you can make changes. We use Cloud Technology (CT), not to CT scan our brain, but to refresh it with hands on practices requiring minimum computer skills and coding.
Right in the class and outside, you will dive into the apps, not only to use them, but to explain, modify, and even create samples. We describe the main concepts in computer apps, such as Input-Processing-Output, by demonstrate their similarities to other sciences, for example to Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) in psychology, Sense-Brain-Motor in neuroscience, and data-function-return in math and programming.
For this purpose, using quite recent cloud apps, with examples and help, we share our knowledge and accompany you on the cloudtop far beyond your laptops and other devices. Our main practices happen inside a browser, such as Edge, Chrome, Firefox, or Safari. That is all we need to make our hands ‘cloudy’ and ‘cody’. Each time with a few clicks we enter the edit and create modes of many apps that you usually play with on your own devices. But here we not only change and create them, but mainly deepen our understanding on how things work in the digital world.
When we know how things work, not only we will be able to make some apps but also to have a sense of how apps work even Artificial Intelligence (AI) and chat bot ones. By knowing things, we will be ready to enjoy using them and decrease our fear of AI technology as most of our worries come from not knowing are misunderstandings, as being in the dark (no knowledge) or height (no control) can cause nervousness.
To give some ideas about the details, we will be practicing with new open-access web-based frameworks including but no limited to: Solara, Pyscript, Gradio, Streamlit, Trinket, Codepen, and Anaconda. We bring all of them right into web browsers and run different demos from science, art, and language to multimedia, 3D, and chat bots. You will learn to create web apps and web pages like pro with minimal effort in fun and interactive way.