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      University of Glasgow

      Fundamental MATLAB Programming for AI

      Skills you'll gain: Matlab, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      University of London

      C++ Programming: Classes and Data

      Skills you'll gain: C++ (Programming Language), Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Object Oriented Design, Programming Principles, Data Structures, Program Development, Data Management

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      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Skillshare

      Affinity Photo: Beyond the Basics – Pro Compositing

      Skills you'll gain: Photo Editing, Photography, Color Matching, Computer Graphic Techniques, Editing

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      University of Colorado Boulder

      BiteSize Python: Object Oriented Programming

      Skills you'll gain: Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Object Oriented Design, Software Documentation, Maintainability, Programming Principles, Software Design, Python Programming

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      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Skillshare

      Affinity Photo: Beyond the Basics – Masking & Color

      Skills you'll gain: Photo Editing, Color Theory, Computer Graphic Techniques, Photography

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Packt

      Terraform Basics - Managing Infrastructure as Code

      Skills you'll gain: Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform, Amazon Web Services, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Development Environment, Amazon S3, Infrastructure Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Command-Line Interface, Integrated Development Environments, Multi-Factor Authentication, Software Installation

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      IBM

      Data Analysis with R

      Skills you'll gain: Data Wrangling, Exploratory Data Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Transformation, R Programming, Data Manipulation, Data Visualization, Box Plots, Predictive Analytics, Statistical Analysis, Data Science, Regression Analysis, Statistical Modeling, Correlation Analysis, Data Cleansing, Tidyverse (R Package), Supervised Learning

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      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Skillshare

      Affinity Photo: Beyond the Basics – Retouching Skills

      Skills you'll gain: Photo Editing, Editing, Photography, Computer Graphic Techniques

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Microsoft

      R Programming Essentials with Microsoft Tools

      Skills you'll gain: Version Control, Software Documentation, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Visual Studio, Program Development, Statistical Analysis, Development Environment, Descriptive Statistics, Statistical Programming, Programming Principles, Debugging

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Arizona State University

      Dark Data Basics - Understanding the Unknown

      Skills you'll gain: Computational Thinking, Data Strategy, Unstructured Data, Data Storage, Data Access, Data Literacy, Data Analysis, Data Management, Data Collection

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Pearson

      Kubernetes From Basics to Guru: Unit 5

      Skills you'll gain: Istio, Microservices, Containerization, Docker (Software), Kubernetes, Application Deployment, Software Architecture, Cloud-Native Computing, Systems Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, Application Performance Management, Performance Tuning, Scalability

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Skillshare

      DaVinci Resolve 19 Masterclass: Video Editing Basics

      Skills you'll gain: Animations, Video Editing, Motion Graphics, Post-Production, Timelines, Configuration Management, Editing, Data Import/Export, Color Matching, File Management, Typography

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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

    • Fundamental MATLAB Programming for AI: University of Glasgow
    • C++ Programming: Classes and Data: University of London
    • Affinity Photo: Beyond the Basics – Pro Compositing: Skillshare
    • BiteSize Python: Object Oriented Programming: University of Colorado Boulder
    • Affinity Photo: Beyond the Basics – Masking & Color: Skillshare
    • Terraform Basics - Managing Infrastructure as Code: Packt
    • Data Analysis with R: IBM
    • Affinity Photo: Beyond the Basics – Retouching Skills: Skillshare
    • R Programming Essentials with Microsoft Tools: Microsoft
    • Dark Data Basics - Understanding the Unknown: Arizona State University

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