The pandemic has brought a sudden pause to our normal lives.
While the government is busy in taking the necessary steps to ease the pressure, many organizations have pitched in to maintain the required grip during this time of crisis.
Even tech giants like Google, Apple and others like TCS have come up with ideas to offer services during this time.
Here are some of the courses that you can sign up for in this quarantine period.
TCS: 15-day certification program to IT professionals
Recently to counter the quarantine period, TCS iON has started a 15-day digital certification program for college students and working professionals.
It is named as “Career Edge”, where professionals can hon their skills in a self-paced manner, helping them to enhance their career skills utilizing the time of the lockdown.
Google IT Support Professional Certificate
This five-part course is provided by Google, where you will go over all the fundamental topics for the support role before moving on to more complex ones. There are portions where you will learn troubleshooting, system administration, OS and security that can be fundamental for your career.
This one is also a self-paced program with plenty of demonstrations, visuals, and examples that makes learning a fun experience.
Oracle: availing free access to cloud courses and certification
If you are tight on budget but really want to learn something about cloud computing, Oracle is providing free online learning content and cloud certifications during the lockdown period. Through this course, you can learn various skills to develop and later use them for your career.
iOS- How To Make An App For Beginners
Apple has been mastering the app development for quite some time.
iOS has recently launched this program for free. The course is designed for the complete beginner and you will learn how to build iPhone apps with Swift 4, Xcode 9 and iOS 11 step by step.
it is a short and comprehensive 3-hour course with all the basic foundation for building an app.
Google Digital Garage
This is a three-part course that combines categories namely data and tech, digital marketing, career development.
A lot of companies today want individuals who have a basic knowledge of everything. There are many courses in the program and the lessons are precise, get straight to the point and cover every skill with bite-sized videos.
NASSCOM: offering a free AI course free
Recently NASSCOM and Union IT Ministry have joined hands to introduce free courses on Artificial Intelligence.
The course is part of the Nasscom FutureSkills initiative that will allow individuals to upskill themselves.
The original price was Rs 6800 but Nasscom is making it available for free to everyone till May 15, 2020. The course is designed to last over a few weeks.
HCL Tech: Helping in setting up COVID-19 control center
India’s leading IT firm HCL has recently set up a control center for the Gautam Buddh Nagar district administration to help in responding to citizen about coronavirus related queries.
It is providing with support to the district administration, police, health department and authorities in Noida as well as Greater Noida.
Some other courses to look for
If you want something else to learn during this lockdown period, here are some interesting courses to look for:
Machine Learning
Coursera is providing the Game Changer Machine Learning course by Andrew Ng for free right now.
It has the fundamentals of everything like Regression, Classification, Anomaly Detection, Recommender systems, Neural networks, plus a lot of great advice.
Algorithm
In Data Science, the algorithm can be a very crucial part.
Many companies ask data structures and algorithms as part of their interview process for hiring data scientists.
To brush up your skills, there are two courses by Robert Sedgewick that covers all the essential algorithms and data structures.
Entrepreneurship
A lot of us have unique ideas to set up our own business. But ideas are not enough.
To develop that sharp business acumen you’ll soon need, it’s important that you understand the social implications of your society as well as the operational growth that may emerge from such implications.
A course on Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies will help you to learn the basics of business.
Python
A very important programming language used to create desktop GUI applications, websites, and web applications.
You can learn the Python, Python 3 specifically, in Using Python for the Research course.
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