Material for my UNL course, «Security in application development», available on GitLab

I have left this blog to linger without much activity… My life has got quite a bit busy. So, I’ll try to put some life back here ☺

During the last trimester last year, I was invited as a distance professor to teach «Security in application development» in the «TUSL (Techical Universitary degree on Free Software)» short career taught by the online studies branch of Universidad Nacional del Litoral, based in Santa Fé, Argentina. The career is a three year long program that provides a facilitating, professional, terminal degree according to current Argentinian regulations (that demand people providing professional services on informatics to be “matriculated”). It is not a full Bachelors degree, as it does not allow graduated students to continue with a postgraduate; I have sometimes seen such programs offered as Associate degrees in some USA circles.

Anyway - I am most proud to say I had already a bit of experience giving traditional university courses, but this is my first time actually designing a course that’s completely taken in writing; I have distance-taught once, but it was completely video-based, with forums used mostly for student participation.

So, I wrote quite a bit of material for my course. And, not to brag, but I think I did it nicely. The material is completely in Spanish, but some of you might be interested in it. And the most natural venue to share it with is, of course, the TUSL group in GitLab.

The TUSL group is quite interesting; when I made my yearly pilgrimage to Argentina in December, we met and chatted, even had a small conference for students and interested people in the region. I hope to continue to be involved in their efforts.

Anyway, as for my material — Strange as it might seem, I wrote mostly using the Moodle editor. I have been translating my writings to a more flexible Markdown, but you will find parts of it are still just HTML dumps taken with wget (taken as I don’t want the course to be cleaned and forgotten!) The repository is split between the reading materials I gave the students (links to external material and to material written by myself) and the activities, where I basically just mirrored/statified the interactions through the forums.

I hope this material is interesting to some of you. And, of course, feel free to fix my errors and send merge requests ☺