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    Coursera Instructor Network

    AI for Customer Experience with Chatbots and Analytics

    Skills you'll gain: Customer experience strategy (CX), Responsible AI, Customer Engagement, Predictive Analytics, Personalized Service, Customer Service, Google Gemini, Customer Insights, Anthropic Claude, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Return On Investment

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    IIT Roorkee

    Foundations of Advanced Wireless Communication

    Skills you'll gain: Communication Systems, Wireless Networks, Digital Communications, Telecommunications, Network Architecture, Emerging Technologies, Network Planning And Design, Algorithms, System Design and Implementation, Mathematical Modeling, Estimation

    Intermediate · Course · 3 - 6 Months

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    EDUCBA

    XHTML Front-End Web Design with CSS

    Skills you'll gain: Browser Compatibility, Responsive Web Design, UI Components, HTML and CSS, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Color Theory, Web Design, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Semantic Web, Verification And Validation, User Interface (UI), Typography, Web Design and Development, Interactive Design, Web Development Tools, Usability, Web Development, Interaction Design

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    Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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    Coursera Project Network

    Product Reviews Text-based Search - OpenAI Text Embedding

    Skills you'll gain: Dimensionality Reduction, OpenAI, Application Development, Exploratory Data Analysis, Application Programming Interface (API), Text Mining, Python Programming, Data Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Data Manipulation

    Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

  • Status: Free Trial
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    Scrimba

    Tailwind CSS Practice Projects

    Skills you'll gain: Responsive Web Design, UI Components, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), HTML and CSS, Web Design, Front-End Web Development, User Interface (UI), Debugging, Web Development

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Packt

    Gen AI - RAG Application Development using LlamaIndex

    Skills you'll gain: Large Language Modeling, LLM Application, Tool Calling, Generative AI Agents, Generative AI, Application Development, Data Storage Technologies, Natural Language Processing, Data Pipelines, Data Integration

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Packt

    Practical Linux Command Line 2.0

    Skills you'll gain: Linux Commands, Package and Software Management, Linux, File Management, Command-Line Interface, Unix Commands, File Systems, Ubuntu, Linux Administration, System Monitoring, Remote Access Systems, Unix Shell, User Accounts, OS Process Management, General Networking, IT Automation, System Configuration

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Duke University

    Data Science Ethics with R

    Skills you'll gain: Data Ethics, Data Integrity, Data Collection, Responsible AI, Data Quality, Data Presentation, Data Science, Data Visualization Software, Ethical Standards And Conduct, Algorithms

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    Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    EDUCBA

    IntelliJ IDEA with Project

    Skills you'll gain: IntelliJ IDEA, Apache Maven, Build Tools, Integrated Development Environments, Software Development Tools, Version Control, Git (Version Control System), Development Environment, Program Development, Computer Graphics, Debugging, Scripting Languages, Visualization (Computer Graphics), Databases, Relational Databases

    4.9
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    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    University of Pittsburgh

    Data Visualization Fundamentals in Python

    Skills you'll gain: Data Storytelling, Data Presentation, Plot (Graphics), Data Visualization, Matplotlib, Interactive Data Visualization, Data Visualization Software, Seaborn, Data Analysis, Graphic and Visual Design, Python Programming, Jupyter, Pandas (Python Package), Data Manipulation, NumPy

    Build toward a degree

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Packt

    Snowflake - Build and Architect Data Pipelines Using AWS

    Skills you'll gain: Snowflake Schema, Data Pipelines, Apache Airflow, Data Security, Data Infrastructure, Data Governance, Data Architecture, Extract, Transform, Load, Apache Kafka, Data Lakes, Data Management, Performance Tuning, PySpark, Data Warehousing, Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services, Real Time Data, Data Processing, SQL, Stored Procedure

    Intermediate · Course · 3 - 6 Months

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    التحضير لمقابلة عمل الترميز

    Skills you'll gain: Pseudocode, Data Structures, Algorithms, Theoretical Computer Science, Software Visualization, Computer Science, Computational Thinking, Technical Communication, Computer Programming

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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In summary, here are 10 of our most popular programming basics courses

  • AI for Customer Experience with Chatbots and Analytics: Coursera Instructor Network
  • Foundations of Advanced Wireless Communication: IIT Roorkee
  • XHTML Front-End Web Design with CSS: EDUCBA
  • Product Reviews Text-based Search - OpenAI Text Embedding: Coursera Project Network
  • Tailwind CSS Practice Projects: Scrimba
  • Gen AI - RAG Application Development using LlamaIndex: Packt
  • Practical Linux Command Line 2.0: Packt
  • Data Science Ethics with R: Duke University
  • IntelliJ IDEA with Project: EDUCBA
  • Data Visualization Fundamentals in Python: University of Pittsburgh

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