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      Fudan University

      网络游戏设计与开发毕业项目

      Skills you'll gain: Unity Engine, Mobile Development, Video Game Development, Game Design, Application Deployment, Android (Operating System), Back-End Web Development, Cloud Development, Data Analysis Software, Platform As A Service (PaaS), Cloud Platforms, User Interface (UI)

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Packt

      Foundations of Unreal Engine 5 and Basic Environment Design

      Skills you'll gain: 3D Modeling, Unreal Engine, Virtual Environment, Computer Graphics, Visualization (Computer Graphics), UI Components, Game Design, Scalability, Development Environment, Performance Tuning, Design

      Beginner · Course · 3 - 6 Months

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      Scrimba

      Build a Memory Game in React

      Skills you'll gain: React.js, UI Components, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Game Design, Front-End Web Development, Application Programming Interface (API), Usability, JavaScript Frameworks, Web Development Tools, Web Applications, Web Frameworks, Interaction Design, Debugging, Web Development

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Whizlabs

      GCP: Monitoring, Security, and Costs

      Skills you'll gain: Google Cloud Platform, Cost Management, Cloud Management, System Monitoring, Application Performance Management, Cloud Security, Identity and Access Management, Key Management, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Monitoring, Encryption, Serverless Computing, Event-Driven Programming, Real Time Data

      Intermediate · 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

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      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Amazon Web Services

      Amazon EFS Primer

      Skills you'll gain: Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Cloud Storage, Serverless Computing, Scalability, Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS), File Systems

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Packt

      ReactJS 18, Firebase 9 Project- Realtor Clone

      Skills you'll gain: Web Applications, Web Development, Leaflet (Software), React.js, User Interface (UI), Application Deployment, Web Development Tools, Application Development, HTML and CSS, OAuth, User Accounts, UI Components, Authentications, Front-End Web Development, Development Environment, User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design, Javascript, Responsive Web Design, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Data Validation

      Intermediate · Specialization · 1 - 3 Months

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      Packt

      Introduction to AI Tools for Coders and Programmers

      Skills you'll gain: ChatGPT, Software Development Tools, Microsoft Copilot, Code Review, Test Case, Application Programming Interface (API), Generative AI, React.js, Unit Testing, Jest (JavaScript Testing Framework), Debugging, Middleware

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Google Cloud

      Classify Text into Categories with the Natural Language API

      Skills you'll gain: Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, Cloud API, Google Cloud Platform, Unstructured Data, Classification And Regression Tree (CART), Application Programming Interface (API), Data Analysis

      Intermediate · Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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      Coursera Project Network

      Amazon Redshift: Introducción al Almacenamiento de Datos

      Skills you'll gain: Amazon Redshift, Amazon Web Services, SQL, Data Warehousing, Cloud Services, Data Management, Data Analysis

      Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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      Packt

      Gen AI - RAG Application Development using LlamaIndex

      Skills you'll gain: Large Language Modeling, Generative AI Agents, Generative AI, Application Development, Data Storage Technologies, Query Languages, Natural Language Processing, Data Integration, Development Environment

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Google Cloud

      Cloud Run Canary Deployments

      Skills you'll gain: Continuous Deployment, Application Deployment, CI/CD, Release Management, Regression Testing, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Development, Load Balancing, Application Development, Cloud Computing

      Intermediate · Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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

    • 网络游戏设计与开发毕业项目: Fudan University
    • Foundations of Unreal Engine 5 and Basic Environment Design: Packt
    • Build a Memory Game in React: Scrimba
    • GCP: Monitoring, Security, and Costs: Whizlabs
    • IntelliJ IDEA with Project: EDUCBA
    • Amazon EFS Primer: Amazon Web Services
    • ReactJS 18, Firebase 9 Project- Realtor Clone: Packt
    • Introduction to AI Tools for Coders and Programmers: Packt
    • Classify Text into Categories with the Natural Language API: Google Cloud
    • Amazon Redshift: Introducción al Almacenamiento de Datos: Coursera Project Network

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