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Skills you'll gain: Software Development Life Cycle, Software Architecture, Software Design, Scrum (Software Development), Software Engineering, Software Design Patterns, Agile Methodology, Software Development, Programming Principles, Application Development, Cloud Development, Web Development, Back-End Web Development, Front-End Web Development, Computer Programming, Integrated Development Environments, Python Programming
Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, CI/CD, Software Development Life Cycle, Software Architecture, Istio, Cloud Computing Architecture, Application Deployment, React Redux, Kubernetes, Cloud Services, Node.JS, Responsive Web Design, Restful API, Django (Web Framework), Object-Relational Mapping, OpenShift, Git (Version Control System), Cloud Computing, Data Import/Export, Engineering Software
Skills you'll gain: Git (Version Control System), Software Development Methodologies, JUnit, Requirements Analysis, Version Control, Application Development, Software Development Life Cycle, SQL, Full-Stack Web Development, Test Driven Development (TDD), Software Development, Restful API, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Object Oriented Design, Database Management, MySQL, Digital Transformation, Relational Databases, Java Programming, Generative AI
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