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Packt
Mastering WidgetKit in SwiftUI 4, iOS 16 with Dynamic Island
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Unlock the power of WidgetKit in SwiftUI 4 for iOS 16 and learn to create dynamic, interactive widgets for the iPhone's home and lock screens. You'll dive deep into WidgetKit's components and architecture, mastering concepts like timeline providers, widget views, and configuration, ensuring that you can build widgets that offer rich user experiences. As you progress, you’ll build a wide variety of widgets, from simple photo-based widgets to dynamic live activity widgets, and learn to manage data syncs and integrate Core Data. You'll even explore how to make your widgets responsive and interactive with Dynamic Island. In this course, you will begin by understanding WidgetKit, then move on to creating your first basic widget. From there, you’ll advance to more complex widget functionalities, like integrating network calls for dynamic content, displaying weather data, and presenting workout stats. You’ll also learn to integrate APIs for real-time updates and handle various data structures to customize your widgets. By the end of the course, you will have gained practical skills to implement custom configurations and live activity widgets, including those compatible with the iOS 16 Dynamic Island feature. This course is perfect for developers who want to enhance their iOS app with highly interactive and visually compelling widgets. While no prior WidgetKit experience is required, familiarity with Swift and SwiftUI is recommended. The course is ideal for iOS developers looking to push the boundaries of app customization and widget interactivity.
Google
Seguridad informática: defensa contra las artes oscuras digitales
Este curso cubre una amplia variedad de conceptos, herramientas y mejores prácticas de seguridad de TI. Introduce amenazas y ataques, y las muchas formas en que pueden aparecer. Te daremos algunos antecedentes de algoritmos de cifrado y cómo se utilizan para salvaguardar los datos. Luego, nos sumergiremos en los tres sistemas de seguridad de la información: autenticación, autorización y contabilidad. También cubriremos soluciones de seguridad de red, que van desde Firewalls hasta opciones de encriptación de Wifi. Finalmente, veremos un caso de estudio, donde examinaremos el modelo de seguridad del sistema operativo Chrome. El curso se completa al reunir todos estos elementos en una arquitectura de seguridad de múltiples capas y en profundidad, seguido de recomendaciones sobre cómo integrar una cultura de seguridad en tu organización o equipo. Al final de este curso, entenderás: ● cómo funcionan los diversos algoritmos y técnicas de cifrado, así como sus ventajas y limitaciones. ● varios sistemas y tipos de autenticación. ● la diferencia entre autenticación y autorización. ● cómo evaluar los riesgos potenciales y recomendar formas de reducir el riesgo. ● mejores prácticas para asegurar una red. ● cómo ayudar a otros a comprender los conceptos de seguridad y protegerse a sí mismos.
Packt
Network Security, Troubleshooting, & Certification Prep
Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. This course provides essential skills in network security, troubleshooting, and preparation for certification exams. You will gain a deep understanding of core networking services, security practices, common network attacks, and effective defense strategies. By the end, you'll be well-prepared to handle network issues and ensure secure operations in diverse network environments. Starting with an introduction to network services like DNS, NTP, and PTP, the course guides you through essential network functionalities. You'll then explore key concepts in network security, focusing on encryption, IAM, and various authentication types. The course continues by detailing common network attacks, including DoS, VLAN hopping, ARP poisoning, and DNS spoofing, providing insights into preventing these threats. You will also learn how to implement robust network defense strategies such as device hardening, NAC, key management, and honeypot techniques. Practical troubleshooting skills are a major focus, with lessons on resolving cable, interface, hardware, and wireless issues, alongside using powerful tools like iPerf and OS-level commands. This course is perfect for aspiring network professionals and those preparing for certification exams like Network+. It is ideal for individuals seeking hands-on experience with network security, troubleshooting, and exam prep, with no advanced prior knowledge required.
OpenAI
ChatGPT Foundations for Teachers
This practical, introductory course helps K–12 educators move from curiosity to confident, everyday use of ChatGPT. Built specifically for teachers, it introduces the essentials of how ChatGPT works, how to navigate and personalize the tool, and how to apply it to real classroom and administrative tasks. Across short, hands-on modules, you’ll explore core ChatGPT tools, learn how to write and refine effective prompts, and practice using AI for common educator workflows like lesson planning, communication, rubrics, and student support. You’ll see step-by-step demos, ready-to-use examples, and real classroom workflows from experienced educators. The course also emphasizes responsible, professional AI use, including data privacy and human judgment. By the end of this course, you will be able to: • Navigate and personalize ChatGPT for daily classroom and administrative tasks • Write and refine effective prompts using a clear prompting framework • Understand how to adapt and personalize top educator use cases to align with your unique classroom goals • Review outputs critically and use AI responsibly in a school setting
Corporate Finance Institute
Introduction to Capital Markets
This Introduction to Capital Markets course offers a comprehensive overview of the industry, and key career opportunities. You will learn about the sell-side, buy-side, and the most popular and sought-after career paths in each of those respective groups. You will gain practical and deliberate knowledge, as this course takes you through typical day-in-the-life scenarios, allowing you to gain an understanding of the core competencies and personality traits that would drive success. Lastly, the course empowers you with the information you need to ensure that your career research is focused and that you use your most limited resource – time – wisely. After completing this course, you will have a better understanding of how the capital markets industry is structured, how each constituent contributes to maintaining smooth, functioning financial markets, and a keen idea of what field you may be best suited to pursue opportunities in. Topics Explored: • Defining Capital Markets • Sell-Side: Origination, Sales & Trading, Primary & Secondary Markets • Buy-Side: Traditional and Non-Traditional (i.e., Hedge Funds) After completing this course, you will be able to: • Define primary and secondary markets, including the stakeholders involved in each and how they interact with each other • Describe the sell-side and buy-side of finance, the activities conducted on each side, and the capital markets careers available • Describe how sell-side and buy-side institutions not only work together but need each other to maintain smooth, functioning financial markets • Understand what a typical day-in-the-life looks like for each career path discussed, as well as the core skillsets that successful professionals would have • Determine what capital markets career path may be best suited for your passion, skillset, and personality This Introduction to Capital Markets course is perfect for anyone and everyone interested in pursuing a career in finance. Whether you are about to undergo your first job search as a new graduate of an academic institution, or you are ready to transition career paths after gaining professional work experience in a related or unrelated field, this course will help you get a comprehensive lay of the land so that you have a roadmap for your career pursuits.
Packt
The Complete Carbon Programming Course
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. This course is designed to give you a thorough grounding in Carbon programming. You'll start by mastering the basics, including variables, data types, and operators, before diving into more complex topics like pointers, tuples, and control statements. The course's hands-on projects will help you apply your knowledge in real-world scenarios, making the learning experience more practical and engaging. As you progress, you'll tackle arrays, control statements, and functions. You'll also explore Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), learning how to define classes, implement inheritance, and use polymorphism. Through the course's various projects, you'll cement your understanding by creating practical applications, including a person hierarchy that showcases your OOP skills. This course is ideal for anyone looking to learn Carbon programming from the ground up. It is structured for beginners and provides plenty of opportunities to reinforce learning with interactive projects. Whether you're a complete beginner or someone looking to refresh your programming skills, you'll benefit from the course's well-rounded approach.
KodeKloud
Terraform for the Absolute Beginner with Hands-on Labs
What is this course about? This course is an engaging and comprehensive introduction to Terraform, one of the most popular tools for implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC). It covers the fundamentals of Terraform, including its configuration and operations, to efficiently manage infrastructure. This course enables learners to automate the setup and maintenance of their infrastructure, making it a vital skill in cloud computing and DevOps. Who is the Target Audience? This course is ideal for: - Developers interested in automating infrastructure management. - DevOps professionals looking to enhance their automation toolset. - IT professionals transitioning to roles involving cloud infrastructure. What background knowledge do I need? A basic understanding of command-line interfaces and general infrastructure concepts is helpful but not required. The course starts from the basics, making it accessible to beginners. What will I learn? Learners will: - Understand the principles of Infrastructure as Code. - Set up and manage infrastructure using Terraform. - Master the basics of Terraform including modules, variables, and functions. - Learn to maintain and scale infrastructures with Terraform efficiently. What is unique about this course? This course stands out by offering: - Hands-on labs for practical experience. - Detailed walkthroughs of Terraform commands and configurations. - Insights into real-world applications of Terraform to manage diverse infrastructures.
University of Michigan
AI for Lawyers: Learning and Leading
Explore important questions found at the intersection of artificial intelligence, education, and professional development in the final course of the four-part series “AI for Lawyers and Other Advocates”: How should teachers approach AI?; How should students approach AI?; And what about the leaders of law firms, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations, all of whom know that a key driver of success is making sure their employees have the skills necessary to thrive in a fast-changing world?
Pearson
Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® Exam: Unit 5
This course covers key areas like delivering value, handling uncertainty, and managing procurement. You'll learn to identify and assess risks using tools like the Risk Breakdown Structure and Risk Assessment Matrix, and develop strategies to handle threats and opportunities. The course also covers selecting contract types and managing procurement risks to help you make informed decisions. With a focus on practical applications, this course prepares you to manage changes effectively and deliver value to stakeholders.
L&T EduTech
Construction of Precast System
This comprehensive course on the construction of precast systems covers all essential aspects, starting with an introduction to types of precast systems and their production processes. It delves into the creation of design and shop drawings, the preparation of moulds, and good casting practices. It also addresses the various methods of casting, concreting, and curing, followed by demoulding and inspection procedures. The course further explores the storage, delivery, handling, and erection of precast components, including quality inspection and tolerances. Preventive measures are discussed, focusing on testing requirements, water tightness, temporary supports, and MEP-related issues, alongside common defects and remedies. Lastly, the course covers design basis criteria, including geometric parameters, occupancy, location-specific factors, material specifications, analysis tools, and load considerations, encompassing gravity loads, seismic parameters, wind loads, and load combinations. Target Learners: Undergraduate students of Civil Engineering Post-Graduate Students of Geotechnical Engineering Practicing Engineers in Pile Construction based projects. Faculties of Civil Engineering Domain Pre-requisites: Analytical skill for determinate & indeterminate structures and design knowledge of reinforced concrete members Exposure to codes and standards (Indian standard codes for concrete, wind and earthquake design)
IBM
Solving Problems with Creative and Critical Thinking
In order to find a solution, one needs to be able to analyze a problem. This short course is designed to teach you how to solve and analyze problems effectively with critical and creative thinking. Through the use of creative and critical thinking you will learn how to look at a problem and find the best solution by analyzing the different ways you can solve a problem. By taking this quick course you will gain the skills you need to find the root cause of a problem through the use of a five-step method. You will learn the process you must go through in order to find the problem, which leads to finding a solution. You will gain the necessary skills needed for critical and creative thinking which will be the foundation for successfully solving problems. This course provides fundamental skills that you will need to use in your day to day work. The course is suitable for anyone – students, career starters, experienced professionals and managers - wanting to develop problem solving skills regardless of your background. By taking this course you will be gaining some of the essential skills you need in order to be successful in your professional life. This course is part of the People and Soft Skills for Professional and Personal Success Specialization from IBM.
Google Cloud
Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services 日本語版
このオンデマンド速習コースでは、Google Cloud で提供される包括的かつ柔軟なインフラストラクチャとプラットフォームのサービスについて、Compute Engine を中心に紹介します。受講者は、動画講義、デモ、ハンズオンラボを通してソリューションの各要素について学習し、演習を行います。これらの要素には、ネットワーク、システム、アプリケーション サービスなどのインフラストラクチャ コンポーネントが含まれます。また、実践的なソリューションの実装も取り上げ、顧客指定の暗号鍵、セキュリティとアクセス管理、割り当てと課金、リソース モニタリングなどについても学習します。
Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo
PM4R Agile: mentalidad ágil en proyectos de desarrollo
La realidad cambiante y dinámica de los proyectos de desarrollo e impacto social demanda nuevos enfoques de gestión de proyectos más flexibles que permitan adaptarse a los cambios o imprevistos que puedan surgir durante la ejecución de los proyectos y, además, lograr el desarrollo de una manera sostenible, inclusiva y respetuosa, aplicando los más altos estándares de integridad, transparencia y rendición de cuentas. Por ello, AcademiaBID, la plataforma de aprendizaje del BID, ha desarrollado la metodología PM4R Agile. Con esta metodología híbrida podrás progresar de manera más eficiente en los proyectos en los que estás participando, al mismo tiempo que se aumenta la transparencia, se implica continuamente a las partes interesadas y se motiva al equipo. En este curso aprenderás los conceptos básicos de la agilidad que promueven el desarrollo de la mentalidad ágil y por qué es importante para la gestión de proyectos de desarrollo e impacto social. Además, conocerás los roles que conforman un equipo ágil y cuáles son sus responsabilidades durante la ejecución del proyecto. Durante estas semanas, te apoyaremos con actividades prácticas para que internalices los principios de la agilidad de PM4R Agile y los comportamientos esperados de cada uno de estos principios. A través de un autodiagnóstico podrás analizar el grado de agilidad que tienes de partida, tanto a nivel individual como de tu organización. De esta manera, podrás reforzar el conocimiento y práctica de los principios de la mentalidad ágil antes de aplicar los 5 pasos de la metodología PM4R Agile. Comienza hoy a aplicar la agilidad en tu proyecto con una metodología adaptada a tus necesidades. Te esperamos en el curso.
Packt
Solidity Advanced: Secure Smart Contracts & DApp Development
Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. In the rapidly evolving world of blockchain technology, mastering Solidity is crucial for developing secure and efficient smart contracts. This advanced course takes you beyond the basics, guiding you through complex Solidity concepts and the intricacies of secure contract development. Each module is meticulously designed to deepen your understanding of Solidity, from recognizing common vulnerabilities to implementing robust security measures. The course begins with essential advice on approaching new Solidity concepts, gradually leading you through advanced topics such as looping and transactions, points of failure in contracts, and the significance of safe contract design. You'll explore critical issues like whether contracts should be allowed to receive funds and how to protect them from common exploits. Through a combination of theoretical insights and practical exercises, you will learn to recognize, analyze, and mitigate security risks in smart contracts. As you progress, you’ll engage with hands-on coding exercises that solidify your learning, including creating and securing smart contracts, understanding complex patterns like the "Only After" modifier, and mastering advanced concepts such as inheritance and abstract contracts. By the end of this course, you’ll not only be proficient in Solidity but also equipped with the skills to develop secure, high-performing blockchain applications. This course is tailored for experienced developers familiar with basic Solidity concepts who are looking to advance their skills in secure smart contract development. Prerequisites include a solid understanding of fundamental Solidity, blockchain principles, and some experience with writing and deploying smart contracts.
IBM
Generative AI: Prompt Engineering Basics
As generative AI (GenAI) reshapes workplaces and job roles, using it effectively is now essential. Prompt engineering is the key to directing GenAI models and refining their output for desired results. This course is for professionals, executives, students, and AI enthusiasts ready to harness prompt engineering to unlock tools like ChatGPT. You’ll learn practical techniques, structured methods, and best practices for crafting strong prompts. Explore zero-shot and few-shot prompting to boost reliability and output quality. Discover advanced methods such as the Interview Pattern, Chain-of-Thought, and Tree-of-Thought to produce accurate, context-aware responses. Hands-on labs and projects provide experience with multimodal prompting, the playoff method, and image generation. You’ll practice blending text and visuals and evaluating AI outputs for precision and usefulness. Podcasts, dialogues, and discussions link theory to real-world scenarios, while expert insights highlight strategies for effective prompt use. A final project and graded assessments ensure you can apply these techniques with confidence, leaving you with practical, job-ready skills. Hear from practitioners about the techniques and artistry behind writing impactful prompts. Enroll today to master prompt engineering and unlock GenAI’s potential.
IE Business School
Marketing Management Essentials: Product and Branding
In this course, discover the stages of a product's life. From inception to decline. Learn to navigate the product lifecycle, analyze market trends, and develop strategies for a competitive edge. Understand the importance of each phase in the lifecycle to optimize product strategy and market presence.