Название: Begin to Code: Building apps and games in the Cloud
Автор: Rob Miles
Издательство: Microsoft Press/Pearson Education
Год: 2023
Страниц: 748
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 55.6 MB

Become a cloud developer — and have fun doing it!

This full-color guide will help you start creating cloud-based apps and games fast, even if you’ve never done it before. Not just friendly and easy, it puts you in control of your own learning and empowers you to solve problems you care about. Microsoft and author Rob Miles have reinvented the introductory tutorial, reflecting deep research into how newcomers learn. Begin to Code is packed with innovations, from debugging challenges to step-by-step Make Something Happen exercises replicated as YouTube videos linked directly from the book. Miles puts code in context, showing how modern cloud applications are deployed and run, how their elements combine into working systems, and how key cloud technologies help you address security, reliability, and scalability. Easy, friendly, and you’re in control!

We now know what the cloud does. It provides a means of buying (or even getting for free) space on the Internet where we can host our services. jаvascript has been described as “the programming language for the cloud.” jаvascript has become extremely popular. You will almost certainly run jаvascript code when you visit a website. jаvascript has also become very popular on web servers (the machines on the Internet that deliver the information the browser requests). A technology called Node.js allows jаvascript programs to run on a server to respond to requests from browsers.

We have run our jаvascript applications in the browser, on a PC, and in the cloud. Now, we will deploy them to a much smaller device, a Raspberry Pi. This is a small but powerful computer that can run Node.js. We can use it to host web applications (including Tiny Survey and Cheese Finder) around our local network at home. It is possible to make our hosted applications visible on the Internet, but this requires network configuration, which is beyond the scope of this book. You can start with an empty Raspberry Pi and finish with a server onto which you can deploy applications from this book.

Learn how to:

Recognize what’s unique about cloud-based software and why jаvascript is ideal for developing them
Move jаvascript code onto the cloud, and add programmed behavior to web pages
Create active sites and generate dynamic web content
Use the Node.js framework to write programs that run on servers and respond to browser requests
Build shared applications that use services and JSON data transfer
Host and optimize shared game experiences in the cloud
Consider ethical and privacy issues as you design new cloud apps and services
Streamline and improve cloud development with Express Framework, node package manager, and Git
Use professional techniques to deliver reliable, secure, and well performing solutions
Build cloud-hosted programs that interact with file stores and databases
Configure and deploy a working application, step by step
Get started with cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) development

About This Book:

For beginners who’ve never written code for the cloud
For anyone who’s been frustrated with other beginning programming books or courses
For people who’ve started out in other environments and now want to code for the cloud

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