Thursday

Objectives

• Learn how text can be handled as a tree with the Trie Tree
• Begin to think about our final projects
• Learn about the services offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Learn to provision a web server in AWS
• Learn how to deploy a simple WSGI app to AWS.

Readings

AWS and Deployment

• (Read ONLY! Don’t do this yet) Deploying a Django App to Amazon AWS
• (Read ONLY! Do not do yet!) Creating a Database Server
• Be aware of the security controls for Amazon RDS
• In particular, learn about RDS Security Groups and controlling access between RDS and EC2

Trie Trees

• Trie Tree (Wikipedia)
• Trie Trees

Review

• Collisions in Hash Tables

Concepts

• Deploying a Simple WSGI Application on AWS
  • Setup
  • Manual Configuration
  • Automation
• Deep Dive into Class-Based Views
  • The DetailView
  • CBV dispatch()
  • The get_object method
  • A Little More About get_context_data()
  • The Next Step in the Process
  • render_to_response
  • A Few Final Notes
• Trie
  • Definition
  • Motivation
  • Operations

Demo

Interacting with AWS through the web, an introduction to Amazon Web Services.

Assignments

• Implement a Trie in Python
• Deploy a WSGI app to AWS
• Django Imager: Create Views to Edit Models
• Django Imager: Complete Front-End (Due Friday Week 8)
• Technical Blog Post: Draft Your Post
• Today I learned...