Activity One: Deploy a Web App
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Check out our blog
for a step-by-step tutorial on how to deploy a web app to Azure from Visual Studio Community 2015. You can use your own web app or just copy and paste our code from right here:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hello Cloud!</title>
<metacharset="utf-8"/>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello Cloud!</h1>
<p>Check out this sweet website I made in Visual Studio 2015!</p>
</body>
</html>
When you’re ready, copy your web app’s URL (it’ll look something like
http://myhellocloud.azurewebsites.net/
) and paste it into our Hello Cloud contest submission form available from
your Imagine Cup Dashboard
. For contest purposes, if we draw your name we’ll click your URL and verify you have a web app running there. That’s it!
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Activity Two: Deploy a WordPress Website
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WordPress is a powerful and widely used tool for building and managing websites and blogs. It’s both free and open source, with a huge community of users worldwide. And with Microsoft Azure, you can deploy and configure your own WordPress website in minutes at no cost for students!
To deploy your own WordPress website, just
check out our blog
for the step-by-step process. When you’re done deploying and configuring your WordPress site, copy your web app’s URL (it’ll look something like
http://mywordpresssite.azurewebsites.net/
) and paste it into our Hello Cloud contest submission form available from
your Imagine Cup Dashboard
. For contest purposes, if we draw your name we’ll click your URL and verify you have a WordPress site running there. That’s it!
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Activity Three: Deploy your Resume
When you start looking for your first job, will you have the cloud on your résumé? You will if you compete in our Hello Cloud Challenge! After completing activity three you will also have your résumé in the cloud!
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This activity builds on the skills of activity 1:
Click here for the activity 1 walkthrough
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For the web page code you can create your own résumé format, or use the
Hello Cloud Résumé Template
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Share as much information as you’re comfortable, or feel free to use your imagination
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Ensure that you that you create a new "Web App Name" for your résumé when publishing to Azure
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When you’re ready, copy your web app’s URL (it’ll look something like
http://myhellocloud.azurewebsites.net/
) and paste it into our Hello Cloud Activity 3 submission from your
dashboard
(please ensure its a different URL than Activity 1)
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For contest purposes, if we draw your name we’ll click your URL and verify you have a résumé hosted in the cloud. That’s it!
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More Activities Coming Soon
We’ll have more activities soon, including MySQL, Azure Machine Learning, and others. So get started with these two now and then keep coming back to increase your chances to win!
When is the Deadline?
We will draw each month’s sweepstakes winner on the last Wednesday of the month. The deadline to get your activity URLs submitted to our Dashboard is the last Tuesday of each month at 2359 GMT that evening.
Once you’ve submitted, you’ll be in all future drawings for the duration of the contest. You can update your submission to add additional activity URLs whenever you want.
How do I get Microsoft Azure?
We’ve got a blog explaining exactly how to sign up.
But if you’re already a DreamSpark.com member, just
go straight there and get Azure right away
!
Past Hello Cloud Winners
Congratulations to the monthly
Hello Cloud
drawing winners:
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September Winner:
Alberto M., Spain
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October Winner:
Jayashree J., India
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November Winner:
Firas M., Tunisia
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December Winner:
Jozsef K., Ireland
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January Winner:
Jose E., Colombia
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February Winner:
Prabhath M., Sri Lanka
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March Winner:
Attila G., Romania
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April Winner:
Peng Z., China
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May Winner:
Abdurrachman M., Indonesia
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June Winner:
Jerson O., Guatemala
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