What is Google Cloud Platform in GCP - Hands-On Activity

What is Google Cloud Platform

📖 Scenario: You want to understand what Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is and how it helps businesses and developers.

🎯 Goal: Learn the basic concept of Google Cloud Platform by creating a simple description and listing its main services.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a variable called gcp_description with a short sentence explaining GCP

Create a list called gcp_services with these exact services: 'Compute Engine', 'Cloud Storage', 'BigQuery'

Create a variable called service_count that holds the number of services in gcp_services

Add a final statement that combines gcp_description and service_count into a summary string called summary

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Understanding cloud platforms like GCP is essential for using cloud services to build websites, apps, and data projects.

💼 Career

Many IT and developer jobs require knowledge of cloud platforms to deploy and manage applications efficiently.

1

Create a description of Google Cloud Platform

Create a variable called gcp_description and set it to the string "Google Cloud Platform is a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google."

GCP

# Create a variable called gcp_description with the exact sentence
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a string variable with the exact text given.

2

List main Google Cloud Platform services

Create a list called gcp_services with these exact strings: 'Compute Engine', 'Cloud Storage', 'BigQuery'

GCP

gcp_description = "Google Cloud Platform is a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google."
# Create a list called gcp_services with 'Compute Engine', 'Cloud Storage', 'BigQuery'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a list with the exact service names as strings.

3

Count the number of services

Create a variable called service_count and set it to the length of the list gcp_services using the len() function.

GCP

gcp_description = "Google Cloud Platform is a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google."
gcp_services = ['Compute Engine', 'Cloud Storage', 'BigQuery']
# Create a variable service_count with the length of gcp_services
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use len(gcp_services) to get the number of items in the list.

4

Create a summary combining description and service count

Create a variable called summary that combines gcp_description and service_count into a string like this: "Google Cloud Platform is a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google. It offers 3 main services." Use an f-string to insert service_count.

GCP

gcp_description = "Google Cloud Platform is a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google."
gcp_services = ['Compute Engine', 'Cloud Storage', 'BigQuery']
service_count = len(gcp_services)
# Create a summary string combining gcp_description and service_count using an f-string
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use an f-string to combine the variables into one sentence.