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Dip your feet into the world of WatchOS and build your own app in this course! Perfect for beginners, this course starts you off with the watchOS basics, showing you what makes it tick and how to set up a project environment. From there, you’ll get your hands dirty building an exercise app from scratch while learning about key WatchKit elements, including groups, interface pickers, and more.

• Access 8 lectures & 1.5 hours of instruction
• Explore the watchOS essentials & set up a project environment
• Get hands-on training creating an exercise app from scratch
• Dive into UI design w/ watchOS & InterfaceController

User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) design are two very different fields that work toward the same goal: create a functional product that’s a breeze for users to use and interact with. This course breaks down the differences between both and helps you apply this knowledge to your app-building pursuits. You’ll get hands-on training designing the home screen of an app, learn about microinteractions, and bring your project to life with InVision, a prototyping, collaboration and workflow tool designers use across the industry.

• Access 22 lectures & 4 hours of content 24/7
• Understand the difference between UX & UI design
• Get hands-on training designing the home page of an app
• Learn about microinteractions & why they’re important
• Discover how to design triggers & actions for your app
• Walk through bringing an app to life w/ InVision

Intuitively built and packed with powerful features, Sketch is the digital design tool developers use to bring their apps to life. Jump into this Sketch 3 training, and you’ll go from design newbie to fluent mobile app designer in five hours. This course ditches the fluff you’d expect from other tutorials and gives you a concentrated dose of the Sketch fundamentals, walking you through the UI, layers, styling, typography, and more as you work through hands-on training and even design a chat app.

• Access 29 lectures & 5 hours of content 24/7
• Learn the essentials behind Sketch 3 & designing apps
• Get hands-on training designing your own chat app
• Explore design basics, like layers, typography & shapes
• Foster app design skills you can apply to other design tools

If you’re serious about becoming a developer, you’re going to need practice. Packed with hands-on projects and guided instruction, this course will build your macOS development skills by having you build several polished, full-stack applications. You’ll explore everything from UI design to front- and back-end development as you create a fully functional weather widget app and even a Slack clone.

• Access 60 lectures & 16.5 hours of content 24/7
• Get up to speed with the essentials of macOS development
• Get hands-on training creating a widget weather app & Slack clone
• Familiarize yourself w/ key tools, like Node.js & MongoDB

The iOS 12 beta is here, and now is the best time to get your feet wet creating apps for it. Led by bona fide development pro Nick Walter, this no-fluff course takes you through the tools and skills required to create your own iOS 12 apps—regardless of your experience level. Using Swift 4 and Xcode 10, you’ll follow along step by step as you take on the coding fundamentals and look at building several app projects, including a Bitcoin tracker, to-do list app, and more over the course of 10 days.

• Access 85 lectures & 12 hours of content 24/7
• Explore iOS 12 development w/ Swift 4.2 & Xcode 10
• Learn how to use Swift by creating a tip calculator
• Dive into TableViews while creating an app to remember jokes
• Tackle functions, classes & methods in Swift
• Learn how to create an app that connects w/ an API to display real-time Bitcoin prices

Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard vector graphics software, used by designers the world over to create logos, icons, sketches, typography, and more complex illustrations. Whether you’re designing for print, web, video, or anything else, Illustrator is a go-to program. In this course, you’ll get step-by-step instruction on mastering this Illustrator from scratch.

• Access 32 lectures & 6.5 hours of content 24/7
• Explore the Illustrator workspace
• Use the Shape tool, apply fill & strokes, use the Pencil & Pen tools, & more
• Discover transparency & Graphic Styles
• Understand the Type tool, blending shapes & colors, basic effects, & more
• Get demos on the Wonka Bar, caricatures, building logos, & more

Note: Adobe software not included.

Adobe InDesign is a layout software that takes images and text and lays them out across pages. It’s great for working with multi-page documents like books, magazines, brochures, and portfolios and can even be used to create business cards, flyers, posters, and more. If you want to be a Graphic Designer, you absolutely have to know Adobe InDesign. In this course, you’ll get an introduction to this powerful program and eventually progress to more advanced techniques.

• Access 19 lectures & 7.5 hours of content 24/7
• Create a new document
• Import images & basic tools
• Apply colors & color swatches
• Master pages & page auto numbers
• Package & export for web and print
• Use the page tool to create multiple page sizes

Note: Adobe software not included.

Adobe Flash/Animate is an animation and interactive media industry standard software. You can use it to create animation projects like short films, commercials, and even longer ones like television shows. It’s best utilized, however, in conjunction with other Adobe software like Premiere and After Effects. This course will show you how to maximize these programs to create compelling animation.

• Access 57 lectures & 15 hours of content 24/7
• Create a new document in Flash & explore the interface
• Learn how to draw in Flash & animate frame by frame
• Import graphics
• Create & animate a puppet
• Understand rotoscoping, cycles, masking, tweening, & more
• Animate w/ code
• Control the timeline

Note: Adobe software not included.

Adobe After Effects is a motion media, compositing, animation, and special effects software used for film and television post-production, editing photos, and much more. In this course, you’ll get an in-depth introduction to After Effects and all the tools and effects in the workspace. You’ll learn how to create and animate primitive shapes and move onto a simple bouncing ball before mastering advanced techniques.

• Access 41 lectures & 12 hours of content 24/7
• Create a new document & animate primitive shapes
• Work w/ a simple & complex bouncing ball
• Explore 3D laters, typographical animation, syncing w/ audio, & more
• Cover expressions, masks, puppet pins, & more
• Discover the Curves editor

Note: Adobe software not included.

If you want to make visually stunning video, Adobe Premiere Pro is one of the best tools you can use. This editing software allows you to edit virtually any type of media in its native format and create professional-quality productions with brilliant color. No experience necessary, as this course will start you off with the basics.

• Access 30 lectures & 5.5 hours of content 24/7
• Learn how to create a new project & navigate the Premier Pro workspace
• Import, organize, edit, & monitor media
• Create a multi-camera source sequence
• User the program monitor & perform advanced sequence editing
• Work w/ graphics, add music, mix dialogue, & more
• Explore the tool panel, the effect control panel, incorporate transitions, & more

Note: Adobe software not included.

When you think of animation, movies and cartoons probably come to mind. But animation also encompasses video games, interactive media, event reconstruction, education, and so much more. It helps explain difficult concepts in a visual way, which keeps animators in demand in a wide range of fields. In this course, you’ll get a crash course in working with animation in Adobe Flash/Animate.

• Access 43 lectures & 12.5 hours of content 24/7
• Explore 2D, stop motion, motion media, & more forms of animation
• Learn the 12 principles of animation
• Create pendulum, boil, flag, & shake effects
• Use staggered frames to imply coughing, laughing or shaking
• Design a simple puppet & test it

Note: Adobe software not included.

Familiar with both front- and back-end development, full-stack developers know the programming process from top to bottom, making them tremendously valuable (and highly paid) pros in their field. Jump into this full-stack primer, and you’ll learn how to build your own programming projects from start to finish. You’ll get up to speed with core tools, like HTML and JavaScript, as well as Laravel, the fastest-growing PHP framework today. With a hands-on e-commerce project to work through, you’ll develop real programming skills as you learn how to fetch data, build shopping carts, and more from scratch.
Access 167 lectures & 19.5 hours of content 24/7

• Familiarize yourself w/ core full-stack dev tools, like HTML, CSS, PHP & Bootstrap
• Get hands-on training w/ Laravel, the fastest-growing PHP framework
• Refine your skills w/ mini projects included in almost every section
• Learn how to work with shopping carts, online payments & more w/ a hands-on e-commerce project

If you’ve always wanted to build and design your own website, this course is the ideal place to start. The instructor makes it look easy, taking you through the latest Web technologies: HTML5, CSS3, and even some jQuery. By building projects alongside the video instruction, you’ll get a true hands-on feel for the basic building blocks of the web you surf daily.

• Learn & apply HTML5 and CSS skills immediately w/ 11-hours of video content
• Build a completely unique, beautifully-designed & responsive landing page
• Focus on modern design for any screen size w/ responsive websites
• Create a fully optimized website from scratch in 7 steps
• Learn where to find free design resources like images, icons & fonts
• Get introduced to using jQuery to build stand-out effects
• Optimize your site for search engines & speed

JavaScript is one of the cornerstones of the web and absolutely essential to learn if you want to do any kind of web development. In this course, you’ll develop the core skills you need to apply JavaScript to your web projects. Ideal for beginners, JavaScript is relatively easy to get started with yet it’s an excellent gateway to learning other scripting languages.

• Access 45 lectures & 4 hours of content 24/7
• Create your first JavaScript code
• Learn how to add JavaScript to your web pages
• Understand the structure of JavaScript
• Discover key JavaScript components like Functions, Arrays, Objects, Loops & conditionals
• Explore JavaScript Core functionality like Math, Strings, literals identifiers & more

C# is a multi-paradigm programming language providing support for software engineering principles such as strong type checking, array bound checking, automatic garbage collection, and more. The newest release, C# 7 has a host of new features to build powerful cross-platform apps. In this course, you’ll learn everything you need to know to start developing applications using C# 7’s newest features, as well as the newest version of the .NET Core.

• Access 44 lectures & 5 hours of content 24/7
• Get an introduction to C# & .NET
• Learn the new features of C# 7 & the new version of the ASP.Net Core Entity Framework
• Dicuss more advanced concepts of C# like delegates, lambda expressions, & LINQ

Google Go, or Golang, has taken the world by storm due to its system-level access and a design that allows programmers to create multi-core programs. It’s the first development language designed specifically for the multi-core CPU computers that have been on the market for the last decade or so. As you may suspect, it was created by developers at Google to solve deficiencies they were facing with conventional computer languages and is an extremely valuable language to know in the 21st century.

• Access 51 lectures & 5 hours of content 24/7
• Get an introduction to Google Go
• Discuss variables & constants in Google Go
• Advance to arrays, slices, range loops & other advanced topics

Python’s one of the easiest yet most powerful programming languages you can learn, and it’s proven its utility at top companies like Dropbox and Pinterest. In this quick and dirty course, you’ll learn to write clean, efficient Python code, learning to expedite your workflow by automating manual work, implementing machine learning techniques, and much more.
Dive into Python w/ 9.5 hours of content

• Acquire the database knowledge you need to effectively manipulate data
• Eliminate manual work by creating auto-generating spreadsheets w/ xlsxwriter
• Master machine learning techniques like sk-learn
• Utilize tools for text processing, including nltk
• Learn how to scrape websites like the NYTimes & Washington Post using Beautiful Soup
• Complete drills to consolidate your newly acquired knowledge

Java is one of the most commonly used programming languages on earth, having contributed to just about every web app or website. If you’ve ever been interested in programming, then the simplicity and flexibility of Java is the perfect place to start. By the end of this course, you’ll be writing full programs like a pro.

• Access 50 lectures & 8 hours of content 24/7
• Use video lectures, lab exercises, & code examples to enhance your learning
• Gain a full understanding of Java SE programming
• Explore the basics of Java syntax & the complexities of Object Oriented Programming
• Write Java programs that run on PC, Mac, or Linux machines

Git is the most widely-used and supported distributed version control system used by software engineering professionals. It’s a protocol that streamlines programming by batch tracking the history of file edits, allowing developers to pinpoint the source and time of any change. Learn to handle any size project quickly and efficiently with this complete Git course.

• Get an introduction to the Git source control system w/ 7 hours & 83 lectures
• Jump right in w/ installation for Windows & Mac
• Manage, move, rename & delete files
• Create & fork repositories w/ GitHub
• Learn & practice the basic commands to start a new project w/ Git
• Experience the draw of Git as a SCM w/ in-depth exploration of Branching & Merging
• Learn to rebase & stash work
• Make comparisons in Git