Software Documentation

Software Documentation is a detailed explanation of the design, utility, and functionality of software products. Coursera's Software Documentation catalogue empowers you to create high-quality, purposeful, and user-friendly documentation for software applications. You'll learn how to write concise and precise technical documentation, create user manuals, develop API references, and generate software requirement and design specifications. This course will also guide you towards effectively communicating complex software architecture, features, and code changes to both technical and non-technical users, thus contributing significantly to the software development lifecycle.
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Results for "software documentation"

  • Status: Free Trial

    University of Colorado System

    Skills you'll gain: Software Design Documents, User Requirements Documents, Functional Requirement, Software Documentation, Unified Modeling Language, Requirements Analysis, System Requirements, Technical Documentation, Technical Writing, Data Modeling, Dataflow

    4.4
    Rating, 4.4 out of 5 stars
    55 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

  • Status: Free Trial

    Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

    Skills you'll gain: Package and Software Management, Jupyter, Ubuntu, Software Installation, Python Programming, Computational Thinking, Mac OS, Cross Platform Development, Software Documentation, Command-Line Interface

    4.2
    Rating, 4.2 out of 5 stars
    50 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

  • Status: Free Trial

    Universidad Austral

    Skills you'll gain: Software Documentation, Object Oriented Design, Unified Modeling Language, Software Design, Test Driven Development (TDD), Unit Testing, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Programming Principles, Software Testing, Software Quality (SQA/SQC), Software Development, Computer Programming, Python Programming

    4.1
    Rating, 4.1 out of 5 stars
    278 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • Status: Preview

    Google Cloud

    Skills you'll gain: Site Reliability Engineering, Service Level, DevOps, System Monitoring, Continuous Monitoring, Risk Management Framework, Cloud Computing, Software Documentation

    4.5
    Rating, 4.5 out of 5 stars
    947 reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

  • Status: Free Trial

    University of Colorado Boulder

    Skills you'll gain: Rmarkdown, Ggplot2, Data Visualization, Tidyverse (R Package), Statistical Visualization, R Programming, Data Visualization Software, Statistical Programming, Data Manipulation, Data Analysis, Data Wrangling, Data Transformation, Software Installation, Programming Principles, Software Documentation

    4.3
    Rating, 4.3 out of 5 stars
    48 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • Status: Free Trial

    Microsoft

    Skills you'll gain: Generative AI, Responsible AI, Data Ethics, Microsoft Copilot, Software Development Tools, Prompt Engineering, Software Documentation, Artificial Intelligence, Code Review

    4.5
    Rating, 4.5 out of 5 stars
    44 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • Status: Free Trial

    Google Cloud

    Skills you'll gain: API Design, Restful API, API Gateway, Application Programming Interface (API), Cloud API, Application Lifecycle Management, Enterprise Application Management, Proxy Servers, Software Documentation, Authentications, Authorization (Computing)

    4.7
    Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
    2.4K reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    University of Toronto

    Skills you'll gain: Programming Principles, Debugging, Software Documentation, Python Programming, Computer Programming, Program Development, Integrated Development Environments, Data Structures, File Management

    4.7
    Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
    6.7K reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

  • Status: Free Trial

    Scrimba

    Skills you'll gain: HTML and CSS, Software Documentation, Technical Documentation, Style Guides, Web Development, Technical Writing

    4.1
    Rating, 4.1 out of 5 stars
    9 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • Status: Preview

    Google

    Skills you'll gain: Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Python Programming, Computer Programming, Programming Principles, Computational Thinking, Scripting, Problem Management, Data Structures, Debugging, Software Documentation

    4.7
    Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
    52 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

  • Status: Free Trial

    NIIT

    Skills you'll gain: Node.JS, API Gateway, MySQL, Restful API, MongoDB, Microservices, API Design, NoSQL, Object-Relational Mapping, Database Design, Relational Databases, Unit Testing, SQL, Databases, Server Side, Application Deployment, Database Management Systems, Javascript, Application Programming Interface (API), Software Documentation

    3.7
    Rating, 3.7 out of 5 stars
    114 reviews

    Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

  • Status: Free Trial

    Scrimba

    Skills you'll gain: Maintainability, Code Review, Debugging, Style Guides, Software Documentation, Software Design Patterns, Programming Principles, Quality Assurance, Technical Communication

    4.9
    Rating, 4.9 out of 5 stars
    8 reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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