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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    Skills you'll gain: Code Review, Software Development Tools, Software Documentation, Collaborative Software, DevOps, Generative AI Agents, Maintainability, Integrated Development Environments, CI/CD, Secure Coding, Generative AI, Test Automation, Application Security, Software Development, GitHub, Software Technical Review, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), AI Personalization

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

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    Skills you'll gain: API Design, Application Programming Interface (API), Data Validation, Restful API, Application Frameworks, Performance Tuning, Software Versioning, Django (Web Framework), Software Documentation, Middleware, Node.JS, Application Performance Management, Scalability, JSON, Spring Boot, Test Automation

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    Skills you'll gain: Google Gemini, Unit Testing, Google Cloud Platform, Integrated Development Environments, Code Review, Software Documentation, Debugging, Application Development, Maintainability, Software Testing, Technical Documentation, Software Quality (SQA/SQC)

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    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

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    Skills you'll gain: API Design, API Gateway, Application Programming Interface (API), Software Documentation, Restful API, Server Side, Test Automation, Development Testing, Software Testing, Interactive Design, Software Design, Back-End Web Development, Test Case, Full-Stack Web Development, Collaboration, Debugging, Version Control

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    Skills you'll gain: Data Structures, Generative AI, Test Driven Development (TDD), Integration Testing, Unit Testing, Python Programming, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Cloud Applications, Serverless Computing, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Azure, Algorithms, Software Documentation, Maintainability, Code Review, Software Development, Software Design, Technical Documentation, Application Deployment

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    Skills you'll gain: Figma (Design Software), User Experience Design, UI Components, Responsive Web Design, Animations, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, User Interface (UI) Design, Interactive Design, Prototyping, Software Design, Style Guides, Software Documentation

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    Johns Hopkins University

    Skills you'll gain: Ggplot2, Software Documentation, Open Source Technology, Tidyverse (R Package), Package and Software Management, Web Scraping, Data Manipulation, Data Visualization Software, Leaflet (Software), R Programming, Data Visualization, Technical Documentation, Datamaps, Visualization (Computer Graphics), Data Cleansing, Interactive Data Visualization, Data Transformation, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), GitHub, Debugging

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

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    Skills you'll gain: Apache Maven, Data Import/Export, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), JSON, Java Programming, Debugging, JUnit, Java, Software Documentation, Data Structures, Computer Programming, Restful API, Integrated Development Environments, File Management, Programming Principles, Data Validation, Package and Software Management, Network Protocols, Unit Testing, Computer Science

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

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