Chrome University - Summer 2020
Chrome University is an event hosted by volunteers on the chrome team to get contributors up to speed. We try to host it twice a year, usually around Q1 and Q3.
It is designed as a broad introduction to the most important/useful aspects of developing a browser and OS. It is beneficial to long-time chromies as well as new folks joining the team. It is an opportunity to refresh your knowledge, learn something new and/or teach something to someone.
We know a good percentage of our community of contributors are non-googlers, so little by little we are trying to make it more inclusive.
We started recording some of the videos and making them available online (with the permission of the presenters and the chrome team). Long term, we'd like to make all/most of the content available online, but for now, these are the ones that we managed to record and publish.
This is the schedule and the videos of the 2020 Summer edition.
You can find past editions here.
Day 1
| Time | Talk | |
|---|---|---|
| 12:30pm | Opening Remarks (5 mins) | |
| 12h35pm |
Chrome Overview (45 mins)
Vision and strategy, org overview, core principles (4S) and values, history, diversity/inclusion, tips to be successful in Chrome. |
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| 01:30pm | Break (15 mins) | |
| 01h45pm |
Life of a Pixel
A tour of the internals of Chrome's rendering architecture, tracing the steps in the pipeline from web content to displayed pixels. Concretizes high-level concepts with pointers to important classes and data structures in the codebase |
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| 02h30pm |
Anatomy of a Browser
Overview of architecture of Chrome, including the process model, layering of components, and the directory structure. |
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| 03:15pm | Break (15 mins) | |
| 03h30pm | Early History of Chrome | |
| 04:30pm | Closing Remarks (5 mins) | |
Day 2
| Time | Talk | |
|---|---|---|
| 12:30pm | Opening Remarks (5 mins) | |
| 12h35pm |
Life of a Commit
How Chrome Browser keeps the tree green. The basic git workflow, code review, pre-submit testing, etc. |
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| 01h05pm |
C++ As A Second Language
A tour of C++ for experienced/advanced programmers coming from other languages (C/Java/JS/Python/Go/VHDL/etc). C++11 features. Free functions, Include & linkage, Destructors & scope, RAII, Pass-by-value / -reference, The standard library, Smart pointers, Raw pointers, Templates |
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| 01h35pm | Break (15 mins) | |
| 01h50pm |
Clank
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| 02h20pm |
Social Event
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| 03h20pm | Break (15 mins) | |
| 03h35pm |
History of the Web
From inception, ancient, modern to contemporary history of the Web. |
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| 04h30pm | Closing Remarks (5 mins) | |
Day 3
| Time | Talk | |
|---|---|---|
| 12:30pm | Opening Remarks (5 mins) | |
| 12h35pm |
Input 101
Overview of the input stack on Chromebooks: hardware, firmware, gesture detection, and more. |
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| 01h05pm |
Web Platform Feature Control and Ecosystem Infra
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| 01h35pm | Break (15 mins) | |
| 01h50pm |
Chrome Privacy Sandbox
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| 02h20pm |
Life of a Vulnerability
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| 03h20pm | Break (15 mins) | |
| 03h35pm |
Path to Chrome
Each speaker will share where they were before Chrome, what they've worked on in Chrome, and why they love Chrome. |
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| 04h30pm | Closing Remarks (5 mins) | |