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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, Cloud-Native Computing, Software Architecture, Istio, Cloud Computing Architecture, Application Deployment, Kubernetes, React Redux, Node.JS, Responsive Web Design, Django (Web Framework), Git (Version Control System), Flask (Web Framework), Server Side, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Cloud Computing, Data Import/Export, Engineering Software
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Skills you'll gain: User Story, Agile Software Development, Software Design Patterns, Design Thinking, Software Development Methodologies, Software Design, Agile Methodology, Agile Project Management, Process Mapping, Software Engineering, Kanban Principles, Software Development Life Cycle, Software Quality Assurance, Application Security, Scrum (Software Development), Object Oriented Design, Software Architecture, User Experience Design, Software Quality (SQA/SQC), Requirements Analysis
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