From the course: Learning Google Cloud IoT Core

What you should know - Google Cloud Tutorial

From the course: Learning Google Cloud IoT Core

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What you should know

- [Instructor] This is a hands-on Internet of Things, or IoT course. In addition to learning about the Google IoT Core platform we will be working on building circuits with electronic components and we will be writing code as well. In that way you will learn how all the software and the hardware play together. For programming languages we will be working primarily with C and Python, so some familiarity with one of these programming languages will be helpful. We will also be using a terminal to run commands and execute scripts. Although Node.js will be used to run a sample project, you'll not be expected to have Node.js prior knowledge for the course. You will also need to sign up for a Google account for the course. You can also use an existing Google account if you already have one set up. Since we'll be using cloud services please note that you'll have to set up a billing account and provide a credit card number, however at the time this course was recorded when you get started with Google Cloud Services you get a 12 month and $300 credit free trial period to get you started. Most of the products also have free limit tiers. Once you stay below those curbs you will not be charged. We will not be crossing any of those thresholds for the projects that we will be building in this course, so there will not be any charges incurred from going through the material. In order to be safe we will also discuss how to clean up projects and services so that no accidental charges occur in the future. This will be covered later on in the course. It is probably a good idea as we complete projects in the course that you perform this clean up process. Google Cloud continues to update its user interface, screens, and functionality that are provided. What this means is as we review configuration in the Google Cloud console it might be the case that screens may not look exactly the same as when the video was recorded. The core concepts should remain the same however, so just look around the screen and you should be able to navigate and find all the features and functionalities we discuss. Since we will be actually building IoT projects that leverage Google IoT Core you'll need some electronic components and parts to complete some of these exercises. These items are shown here, and a detailed list will be provided as an additional resource. The main electronics components you will need are an SP32 Module, which will serve as our IoT device, and a Raspberry Pi which will serve as our IoT gateway. So now with all of those housekeeping rules behind us let's dive into some IoT concepts and terminology you should know.

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