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  • C

    Coursera Project Network

    Design A Newsletter with MailChimp

    Skills you'll gain: Newsletters, Email Marketing, Project Design, Content Creation, Scheduling, Test Tools, User Accounts, Marketing, Communication

    Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

  • Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    I

    Interactive Brokers

    Sector Investing

    Skills you'll gain: Investments, Portfolio Management, Risk Management, Equities, Securities Trading, Market Trend, Performance Analysis, Stock Rotation, Business Economics, Market Dynamics, Market Analysis

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • Status: New
    New
    P

    Packt

    Laravel From Scratch

    Skills you'll gain: PHP (Scripting Language), Application Deployment, Object-Relational Mapping, Model View Controller, Database Management, UI Components, PostgreSQL, Databases, Web Development, Web Applications, Authentications, Development Environment, Authorization (Computing), Application Frameworks, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), File Management

    Intermediate · Course · 3 - 6 Months

  • Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    U

    University of Glasgow

    Computational Thinking with JavaScript 4: Create & Deploy

    Skills you'll gain: Application Deployment, Application Development, Code Review, Software Development, Prototyping, Web Applications, JavaScript Frameworks, Software Engineering, Javascript, Computational Thinking, Version Control, Programming Principles, Program Management

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • P

    Packt

    SwiftUI iOS 16 Crash Course - Emoji Quote App in SwiftUI

    Skills you'll gain: Swift Programming, Apple iOS, Apple Xcode, UI Components, Mobile Development, Apple software proficiency, Application Design, User Interface (UI), Figma (Design Software), Color Theory, API Design, Data Sharing, Animations

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • Status: New
    New
    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    M

    Microsoft

    JavaScript Data and Applications

    Skills you'll gain: Software Testing, Unit Testing, Application Programming Interface (API), Software Documentation, Web Applications, Test Driven Development (TDD), Restful API, Debugging, Performance Testing, Maintainability, Javascript, Full-Stack Web Development, Software Architecture, JSON, Data Transformation

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • Status: New
    New
    P

    Packt

    Scala Fundamentals

    Skills you'll gain: Data Structures

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

  • Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    P

    Packt

    Fundamentals of Oracle Database Performance Tuning

    Skills you'll gain: Oracle Databases, Performance Tuning, System Monitoring, Database Management, SQL, Event Monitoring, Database Architecture and Administration

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

  • D

    Duke University

    Building a Bash Command-Line Tool

    Skills you'll gain: Bash (Scripting Language), Shell Script, Scripting, Unix Shell, Linux Commands, Command-Line Interface, Unix Commands, Business Logic, DevOps

    4.7
    Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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    7 reviews

    Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

  • G

    Google Cloud

    App Engine: Qwik Start - Go

    Skills you'll gain: Google App Engine, Application Deployment, Cloud Infrastructure, Google Cloud Platform, Go (Programming Language), Cloud Applications, Software Testing, Cloud API, Platform As A Service (PaaS)

    Beginner · Project · Less Than 2 Hours

  • Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    L

    LearnKartS

    Salesforce Security and Layouts

    Skills you'll gain: Salesforce, Event Monitoring, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Authentications, Identity and Access Management, Application Security, Data Security, Mobile Development, User Interface (UI), Data Sharing

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • Status: Free
    Free
    C

    Coursera Project Network

    Linux Daemon with Go: Build a Webpage Database Crawler

    Skills you'll gain: Cloud-Native Computing, Unstructured Data, Go (Programming Language), Web Servers, MySQL, Web Scraping, Server Side, Kubernetes, Web Applications, Back-End Web Development, Software Development, Linux, Database Software, Relational Databases

    Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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

  • Design A Newsletter with MailChimp: Coursera Project Network
  • Sector Investing: Interactive Brokers
  • Laravel From Scratch: Packt
  • Computational Thinking with JavaScript 4: Create & Deploy: University of Glasgow
  • SwiftUI iOS 16 Crash Course - Emoji Quote App in SwiftUI: Packt
  • JavaScript Data and Applications: Microsoft
  • Scala Fundamentals: Packt
  • Fundamentals of Oracle Database Performance Tuning: Packt
  • Building a Bash Command-Line Tool: Duke University
  • App Engine: Qwik Start - Go: Google Cloud

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