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Programming Basics Courses

Programming basics courses can help you learn fundamental concepts like variables, control structures, data types, and functions. You can build skills in problem-solving, debugging, and writing clean, efficient code. Many courses introduce tools such as Git for version control, integrated development environments (IDEs) like Visual Studio Code, and programming languages like Python or JavaScript, which are commonly used in web development and software engineering.


Popular Programming Basics Courses and Certifications


  • P

    Pearson

    Hands-on AWS Lambda Labs: Essential Lab Exercises

    Skills you'll gain: Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Cloud Deployment, Amazon CloudWatch, Serverless Computing, Scalability, Cloud-Based Integration, Application Deployment, Performance Tuning, Event-Driven Programming, Capacity Management, Memory Management

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • S

    Simplilearn

    Image Generation with AI Training Course

    Skills you'll gain: Autoencoders, Multimodal Prompts, Generative AI, Embeddings, Generative Model Architectures, Prompt Engineering, Image Quality, Unsupervised Learning, Model Training

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    Category: Preview
    Preview
    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • C

    Coursera

    GenAI for Loan Officers: Revolutionizing Credit Scoring

    Skills you'll gain: Responsible AI, Loan Origination, General Lending, Lending and Underwriting, Loan Documentation, Data Ethics, Generative AI Agents, Workflow Management, Generative AI, Regulatory Compliance, AI Integrations, AI Enablement, Customer Communications Management, Loans, Customer experience improvement, Credit Risk, Document Management, Financial Services, Business Process Automation, Customer Inquiries

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    Category: Preview
    Preview
    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • E

    Edureka

    Debugging & Testing for Software Delivery

    Skills you'll gain: Continuous Delivery, Software Development Tools, Site Reliability Engineering, Event Monitoring, Incident Management, Test Tools, Development Environment, Memory Management, Incident Response, Performance Testing, Root Cause Analysis, Distributed Computing, CI/CD

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    Category: New
    New
    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • P

    Packt

    Create Your First WordPress Plugin & Build a WordPress Site

    Skills you'll gain: Web Design and Development

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • M

    Microsoft

    Reshaping Data with tidyr

    Skills you'll gain: Data Wrangling, Data Manipulation, Data Transformation, Tidyverse (R Package), Data Cleansing, Data Preprocessing, R Programming, Data Structures

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    Category: Preview
    Preview
    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • E

    EDUCBA

    Interactive Web Apps & Advanced HTML Techniques

    Skills you'll gain: jQuery, Ajax, Responsive Web Design, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), HTML and CSS, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Usability, Javascript and jQuery, Web Design and Development, Web Development, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Usability Testing, Javascript, Application Deployment, Web Design, Interactive Data Visualization, Event-Driven Programming, Web Language, Web Applications, Functional Testing

    Beginner · Specialization · 1 - 3 Months

    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • B

    Board Infinity

    Introduction to JUnit

    Skills you'll gain: JUnit, Unit Testing, Software Testing, Test Tools, Java Programming, Verification And Validation, Java, Test Case, Test Automation, Programming Principles, Code Reusability

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    Category: Preview
    Preview
    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • G

    Google Cloud

    App Deployment, Debugging, and Performance en Français

    Skills you'll gain: Cloud-Native Computing, Cloud Development, Google App Engine, Application Deployment, Cloud Deployment, Google Cloud Platform, Application Performance Management, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Platform As A Service (PaaS), Kubernetes, Development Environment, Performance Tuning, Containerization, Debugging, Serverless Computing, Virtual Machines, Computer Programming

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • P

    Packt

    Cyber Security for Absolute Beginners – Part 1

    Skills you'll gain: Malware Protection, Cyber Attacks, Cybersecurity, Network Security, Security Software, Cyber Security Policies, Cyber Security Strategy, Brute-force attacks, Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) Attacks, Security Awareness, Firewall, Exploitation techniques, AI Security, Information Assurance, Multi-Factor Authentication, Encryption, Network Protocols

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

    Category: New
    New
    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • C

    Coursera

    Progressive Web App with JavaScript: Make a Scavenger PWA

    Skills you'll gain: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Frontend Performance, HTML and CSS, Web Applications, Javascript, Performance Tuning, Software Development

    Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • N

    Northeastern University

    Computation and Visualization for Analytics Part 2

    Skills you'll gain: Data Storytelling, Data Presentation, Plotly, Statistical Visualization, Interactive Data Visualization, Matplotlib, Data Visualization Software, Network Analysis, Plot (Graphics), Seaborn, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Network Model, Data Mining, Scatter Plots, R Programming, R (Software), Graphing, Graph Theory, Box Plots, Heat Maps

    Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

    Category: Preview
    Preview
    Category: Build toward a degree
    Build toward a degree
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In summary, here are 10 of our most popular programming basics courses

  • Hands-on AWS Lambda Labs: Essential Lab Exercises: Pearson
  • Image Generation with AI Training Course: Simplilearn
  • GenAI for Loan Officers: Revolutionizing Credit Scoring: Coursera
  • Debugging & Testing for Software Delivery: Edureka
  • Create Your First WordPress Plugin & Build a WordPress Site: Packt
  • Reshaping Data with tidyr: Microsoft
  • Interactive Web Apps & Advanced HTML Techniques: EDUCBA
  • Introduction to JUnit: Board Infinity
  • App Deployment, Debugging, and Performance en Français: Google Cloud
  • Cyber Security for Absolute Beginners – Part 1: Packt

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