NETS 212: Assignments Overview | Assignments | Lab sessions | Hall of Fame NETS 212: Assignments Homework assignments and links to relevant materials will be published here. Homework 0: Using the Virtual Machine Image This very simple assignment will show you how to use the virtual machine image we have prepared for you. You will need the following: The handout for this assignment The virtual machine image A virtual machine monitor, such as VMware Workstation (Windows), VirtualBox (Windows, macOS, Linux), or VMware Fusion (macOS). The VMware products are free for Penn students; see this page for details. These VMMs will work only on x86 hardware; if you have a Macbook with Apple Silicon, please watch for announcements on Piazza. Please keep in mind that any code you save in the virtual machine is lost if you delete the VM image itself, unless you check your code into your git repository! Homework 1: TED Talk Search In this assignment, you will index a large data set of TED talks, upload it to DynamoDB, and then implement a little web frontend that can be used to search for talks. You will need the following: The handout for this assignment The TED talk data set (will be downloaded automatically by Maven) Amazon's DynamoDB Local (will be downloaded automatically by Maven) You should continue to use the VM image you downloaded for Homework 0. Homework 2: Linked TED Talk Portal In this assignment, you will learn basic and intermediate Apache Spark data manipulation, and extend your search service from Homework 1 into something more interesting for looking at TED talks. You will need the following: The handout for this assignment The RDDs in Java handout The TED talk data set (will be downloaded automatically by Maven) You should continue to use the VM image you downloaded for Homework 0. Homework 3: SocialRank In this assignment, you will enhance your Apache Spark RDD skills to do social network analysis. You will also gain some experience with Amazon's Elastic MapReduce. You will need the following: The handout for this assignment The Twitter and LiveJournal data sets (in a public S3 bucket) You should continue to use the VM image you downloaded for Homework 0. Homework 4: Restaurant database In this assignment, you will build a small web app, using DynamoDB and Node.js. You will also gain some experience with a new templating engine, Embedded JS (EJS), and with Bootstrap. You will need the following: The handout for this assignment You should continue to use the VM image you downloaded for Homework 0. Final Project: PennBook The course project is to build a "Mini-Facebook" on AWS, in teams of four. You will need the following: The specification for the project Our example code for the visualizer You should continue to use the VM image you downloaded for Homework 0.
