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      Coursera Instructor Network

      GenAI for Patient Care Coordinators and Case Management

      Skills you'll gain: Clinical Documentation, Generative AI Agents, ChatGPT, Patient Coordination, Practice Management Software, Care Coordination, Patient Flow, Case Management, Health Technology, Technology Roadmaps, No-Code Development, Health Informatics, Health Care Administration, Prompt Engineering, Patient Communication, Health Information Management and Medical Records, Business Process Automation, Decision Making

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Packt

      The Redux Official Course Tutorial Code Along for All Levels

      Skills you'll gain:

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Packt

      Unreal Engine 5 – Create A Zombie Survivor FPS Game

      Skills you'll gain: Unreal Engine, Animation and Game Design, Video Game Development, 3D Assets, Game Design, Artificial Intelligence, User Interface (UI), Debugging, Performance Tuning

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Pearson

      Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD): Unit 6

      Skills you'll gain: Kubernetes, Network Troubleshooting, Authentications, Debugging, Event Monitoring, System Monitoring, Application Performance Management, Application Deployment, Application Programming Interface (API)

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Packt

      Finalizing the Windmill and Integrating with Unreal Engine 5

      Skills you'll gain: 3D Modeling, Unreal Engine, 3D Assets, Animations, Computer Graphics, Video Game Development

      Advanced · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Packt

      Mastering WidgetKit in SwiftUI 4, iOS 16 with Dynamic Island

      Skills you'll gain: Apple iOS, Swift Programming, Core Data (Software), Apple Xcode, Mobile Development, Interactive Data Visualization, User Interface (UI), Data Sharing, Application Programming Interface (API), Data Modeling, Data Structures, Real Time Data, Configuration Management

      Intermediate · Course · 3 - 6 Months

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      Packt

      Advanced Game AI with Behavior Trees in Unity 6

      Skills you'll gain: Unity Engine, Debugging, Artificial Intelligence, Video Game Development, Scalability, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Algorithms, Performance Tuning

      Advanced · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Skillshare

      Client HQ: Streamline Client Project Management with Notion

      Skills you'll gain: Timelines, Collaborative Software, Workflow Management, Project Management Software, Productivity Software, Employee Onboarding, Client Services, Databases, Project Management, Process Improvement and Optimization

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Packt

      Advanced Projects and API Integration with jQuery

      Skills you'll gain: Ajax, jQuery, JSON, Javascript and jQuery, Debugging, Application Programming Interface (API), Web Development Tools, Web Applications, Javascript, Game Design, UI Components, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), User Interface (UI) Design

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Packt

      Harnessing LLMs & Text-Embeddings API with Google Vertex AI

      Skills you'll gain: LLM Application, Large Language Modeling, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud API, Prompt Engineering, Application Programming Interface (API), Unsupervised Learning, Interactive Data Visualization, Natural Language Processing, Applied Machine Learning, Data Processing, Scalability

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Packt

      Beginning Security

      Skills you'll gain: Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), Secure Coding, Application Security, Data Security, Cybersecurity, Cyber Attacks, Web Applications, Threat Detection, Security Awareness, Vulnerability Management, Encryption, Authentications, Authorization (Computing), PHP (Scripting Language)

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      EDUCBA

      XHTML Practical - Creating Website Engineering College

      Skills you'll gain: Information Architecture, HTML and CSS, Verification And Validation, Semantic Web, Web Development, Web Design and Development, Development Testing, Data Validation, Design Strategies, User Interface (UI) Design

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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

    • GenAI for Patient Care Coordinators and Case Management: Coursera Instructor Network
    • The Redux Official Course Tutorial Code Along for All Levels: Packt
    • Unreal Engine 5 – Create A Zombie Survivor FPS Game: Packt
    • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD): Unit 6: Pearson
    • Finalizing the Windmill and Integrating with Unreal Engine 5: Packt
    • Mastering WidgetKit in SwiftUI 4, iOS 16 with Dynamic Island: Packt
    • Advanced Game AI with Behavior Trees in Unity 6: Packt
    • Client HQ: Streamline Client Project Management with Notion: Skillshare
    • Advanced Projects and API Integration with jQuery: Packt
    • Harnessing LLMs & Text-Embeddings API with Google Vertex AI: Packt

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