Improve Your Web Development Skills With These 6 Courses

Companies are constantly looking to enhance their online presence and user interface. Become a valuable resource by learning these fundamental web development programs. Learn how to develop applications, run programs, manage pages, control details, and follow protocols. In addition, better your understanding of how your website is working by conducting data analysis and learning critical analytical tools.

Course: RESTful Services: Data, JAX-RS and Jersey

Instructor:

Jordan Hudgens

• Instructor and curriculum developer
• Certified in Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, and Front End Development by Thinkful. Also certified in Ruby on Rails by Bloc.io
• Vice president of engineering for TRACKR in Midland, Texas
• Knowledge of PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, Postgres, CSS3, C, C++, C#, Objective-C, and Python
• Works with the frameworks Rails (Ruby), Zend (PHP), and Django (Python)
• Experience with the libraries AngularJS, jQuery, and Backbone.js
• Working on Ph.D. in computer science from Texas Tech

What You’ll Learn:

In this course, you’ll gain an understanding of:

• JAX-RS and Jersey and how to install them
• Dependency and deployment installations
• Application development (including deployment to Heroku)
• Creating, coding, and running a server
• The client side of a server

Who Should Take This Course:

• Software engineers
• Programmers
• Web application developers
• QA/Test automation engineers
• Front-end developers

Course: RESTful Services: Fundamentals

Instructor:

John Kidd

• Nationally recognized software instructor and consultant
• Expertise in Java Enterprise, SCRUM, and big data
• 20 years of teaching and project development
• Experience as vice president of research and development

What You’ll Learn:

In this course, you’ll gain an understanding of:

• RESTful internet protocol
• JAX-RS, path matching, paths, and annotations
• Injection and subresources
• Response builder and form submissions

Who Should Take This Course:

• Software engineers
• Programmers
• Web application developers
• QA/Test automation engineers
• Front-end developers

Course: Selenium Fundamentals

Instructor:

Brigitte Birze

• Instructor and curriculum developer
• Software development professional  
• 25+ years of experience in Corporate IT and Engineering
• Six published papers and eight patents

What You’ll Learn:

In this course, you’ll gain an understanding of:

• Basics of Selenium
• IDE commands
• WebDriver commands and setup projects

Who Should Take This Course:

• Software engineers
• Programmers
• Web application developers
• Web developers
• QA engineers

Course: Bootstrap 3.1: Fundamentals

Instructor:

Adam Barney

• .NET Developer, Microsoft MVP, and technical speaker
• Senior-level consultant
• Co-founded the Lincoln .NET Users Group and Nebraska Code Camp

What You’ll Learn:

In this course, you’ll gain an understanding of:

• Bootstrap installation and CDN
• Base CSS, including grids, topography, tables, forms, buttons, and helpers
• Updating the blog site
• Components in Bootstrap, such as input, navigation, labels, badges, breadcrumbs, headers, panels, and thumbnails
• Elements of JavaScript(modals, ScrollSpy, Affix, Tooltips, and Popovers)

Who Should Take This Course:

• Software engineers
• Programmers
• Web application developers
• Front-end developers

Course: Perl Fundamentals

Instructor:

Chris Penick

• Technical instructor
• CISSP certified
• 20 years of experience as a consultant and CISSP trainer in the technology industry
• Principal learning consultant for Symantec
• Webmaster for the FDA and cyber-warfare scenario developer
• Technical investigator and forensic analyst for a private security firm
• Corporate clients include Guess, Inc., EMC, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and the Discovery Channel

What You’ll Learn:

In this course, you’ll gain an understanding of:

• Literals, variables, string functions, conditionals, and loops within Perl
• Lists, command line input, file input and output, and hashing
• Subroutines, Regex, arguments, return values, simple regular expressions, metacharacters, and text manipulations

Who Should Take This Course:

• Software engineers
• Programmers
• Web application developers

Course: Microsoft Excel 2016 Data Analysis

Instructor:

Sondra Nelson

• Software program engineer & instructor
• Microsoft Certified Trainer (15+ years of experience teaching Microsoft)
• Teaching and consulting experience with students, teachers, and corporate employees

What You’ll Learn:

In this course, you’ll gain an understanding of:

• Functions and formulas
• Logical and conditional functions
• Financial and statistical functions
• Date/time and arrays
• Lookups and data tables
• Validating and filtering cells
• Charting and graphics
• PivotTables and PowerPivot
• Goal Seek, Scenarios, and Solver

Who Should Take This Course:

• Data analysts
• Project managers
• Accountants
• Digital analysts