March 2018 Release. The content and code on this repo is intended for computer science instruction as a collaboration with Microsoft developer advocates and Faculty / Students under the MIT license. Please check back regularly for updated versions.
Source: https://github.com/MSFTImagine/computerscience
This repo provides technical resources to help students and faculty learn about Azure and teach others. The content covers cross-platform scenarios in AI and machine learning, data science, web development, mobile app dev, internet of things, and devops.
Students can get free Azure credits to explore these resources here:
- Azure For Students ($100 in Azure - no credit card required)
- Azure For Students Starter (use free Azure products with no credit card)
- Azure Free Account
Your feedback is appreciated - please fork this repo and contribute!
To report any issues, please log a GitHub issue. Include the content section, module number and title, along with any error messages and screenshots.
Learn by doing with our hands-on labs
Check out our hands-on labs that can be used on your own or in the classroom. They also make for fun, easy-to-run workshops!
| Lab Categories | |
|---|---|
| AI and Machine Learning | Build bots and apps backed by AI and ML using Azure and Azure Cognitive Services. |
| Azure Services | Deploy serverless code with Azure Functions, run Docker containers, use Azure to build Blockchain networks and more. |
| Big Data and Analytics | Spin up Apache Spark Clusters, Use Hadoop to extract information from big datasets or use Power BI to explore and visualize data. |
| Deep Learning | These labs build on each other to introduce tools and libraries for AI. They're labeled 200-400 level to indicate level of technical detail. |
| Internet-of-Things | Use Azure to collect and stream IoT data securely and in real time. |
| Web Development | Quickly create scalable web apps using Node, PHP, MySQL on easy-to-use tools like Visual Studio Code and GitHub. |
Host great events
Want to host an event at your school? We can help!
| Resource | |
|---|---|
| Event in a Box | A pre-packaged coding challenge to help students explore machine learning. |
| Tech Talks | Presentations on emerging or innovative tech topics with speakers notes and demos. |
Other available academic resources
We also have other great educator content to help you use Azure in the classroom.
| Resource | |
|---|---|
| Scripts (preview) | Scripts and templates to help set up your classroom environment. |
| Azure Guides | Discover what Azure technologies apply to different teaching areas. |
| Course Content | Learning modules to complement existing course instruction. Includes presentations, speaker notes, and hands-on labs. |
| Resource | |
|---|---|
| Technical Community Content | Workshops from the community team. |
| Bots workshop | Bots and LUIS workshop from Singapore team. |
| Cognitive Tookit | Resources to set up Cognitive Toolkit using notebooks from product team. After installing tutorials will be in c:\repos\bindings\python\tutorials. |
| Research case studies | Case studies of faculty using Azure for Research collected by Microsoft Research. Submit your own Azure research stories here too! |
| Microsoft Research Data Sets | Data sets shared by Microsoft Research for academic use. |
| Machine Learning Data Sets | Data sets shared by Azure Machine Learning team to help explore machine learning. |
| MS MARCO | Microsoft MAchine Reading COmprehension Dataset generated from real Bing user queries and search results. |