While the Linux operating system works with a graphical desktop interface much like Windows or macOS, with Linux, most of the system administration is done in the shell. Using the command line in the shell gives you the power to do tasks that would be more difficult using other methods, so having a solid grasp on how to use the shell can help you work faster and be more productive. In this course, Grant McWilliams provides an introduction to the Linux command line. He teaches you how to customize your shell, and shows some powerful shell tricks and shortcuts that can increase your speed and efficiency using the command line. Grant also explains how to create complex administration tools by stacking together simpler commands using named and unnamed pipes and redirects; how to start, pause, and end processes; and how to schedule one-time jobs and recurring jobs, and more.

In this course, gain a more thorough understanding of the shell and system processes to help you work faster and more efficiently in Linux. Follow computer science instructor and Linux enthusiast Grant McWilliams as he dives into Linux shells and their environments, and explains how to customize your shell. He discusses using the Bash shell, and covers topics like command and variable substitution. Grant also explains how to stack simpler commands together using named and unnamed pipes and redirects; discusses how to start, pause, and end processes; shows how to schedule one-time jobs and recurring jobs; and covers complex system services.

Listening is a critical skill that empowers leaders to make strong connections and an impact. In this course, Dr. Eric Zackrison explains how to be a leader who makes people feel heard by understanding others more effectively, overcoming barriers to listening, controlling emotions, being present, and becoming an active listener. When you're listening, it's important to truly understand and engage with the other person. Listening helps you reach an agreement faster and become a trusted advisor. Eric teaches how to overcome common barriers to good listening, such as confusion, miscommunication, personal biases, and emotional reactivity. He highlights how to listen directly and avoid common pitfalls to listening well. Eric also discusses how to be present when you're listening to others and how to use nonverbal cues. In conclusion, he presents several useful tips on how to actively listen.

This course was created by Madecraft. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Dive deeply into the wide array of built-in effects in Logic Pro X and learn how to use them to create rich, vibe-y productions. Engineer and music producer Evan Sutton shares some of his favorite stock plugins and effects, showing how to tweak the individual settings to achieve different sounds with different instruments for different genres. Explore the equalization (EQ) plugins and ways to use them to add character and fine-tune your mix. Discover how to use compressors to help control the dynamics of your work, and spatial effects like reverb and delay that help you simulate virtual environments and create stunning effects. Then learn how to use modulation and pitch-based effects like chorus, flanging, phasing, and pitch shifting, as well as multi-fx units that simulate live rigs, racks, and pedalboards. Each lesson helps you get the most versatility and best sound from each Logic Pro effect.

Are you a music producer or composer, and are you curious about the MIDI tools available in Logic Pro? In this course, instructor Evan Sutton walks you through the various stock MIDI plug-ins and effects included in Logic Pro X and how you can use each in your own productions. Evan begins with classic arpeggiator patterns and alternate uses. He shows you how to use the chord trigger and the transposer functions independently and with the arpeggiator, then goes into adding complexity and rhythmic expressiveness with the note repeater. Evan explains how to make controllers more expressive and how to adjust velocity curves. He discusses how to use the modulator for a whole new level of control and the randomizer for a bit of musical chaos. Evan concludes with some of his favorite Scripter presets and uses.

Learn how to use Live Loops in Logic Pro 10.5 to produce music. Instructor Scott Hirsch starts by introducing basic concepts for working in the Live Loops grid view. Next, Scott shows how to integrate the new Step Sequencer and Drummer Tracks. Find out how to establish a composition by building scenes in the Live Loop grid. Scott also demonstrates the process of recording your Live Loop performance into the traditional timeline. Explore how to use the new Sampler and Quick Sampler. After that, Scott introduces how to use Drum Synth, Step Sequencer, and how to design your own drum machine to create evocative-sounding and sequenced beats. Then, learn about mixing and remixing with Remix FX and Drum Machine designer enhancements.

Electronic music is an umbrella term for a wide variety of genres and sounds, from ambient, dub, acid house, trap, drum and bass, dubstep, and more. But whatever style you produce, Logic Pro can handle it. This powerful DAW is uniquely suited to capturing your creativity and expressing your sonic ideas. In this course, instructor Nate Mars shows you the core techniques professionals use to produce electronic music in Logic Pro.

He starts with building the foundation of the track—the drums. He shows how to program beats in Ultrabeat, utilize your own samples, and create drumbeats for a variety of genres. He then moves into creating basslines for house, trap, dubstep, and other genres, and getting a great deep sub-bass sound. He next moves into creating lead synth sounds, starting with Logic Pro's built-in Alchemy and Retro synths. He also goes into using samples and adding sound effects. Then he pulls it all together and demonstrates ways to arrange the tracks, use creative effects, mix the tracks together, and use automation to finalize the mix. Plus, learn how to send your MIDI note and clock data to external synths from Logic Pro X—a fun way to experiment with analog sounds.

Have you wondered how to maintain relevance with your logo design in a field that is constantly evolving? In this course, Bill Gardner, president of Gardner Design and founder of LogoLounge.com, shows you new and engaging symbolism and techniques to keep your logo design skills keen and ahead of your peers. Bill walks through 15 trends in-depth and discusses how each designer found a different successful solution using the same general concept. He also covers five additional trends that are just on the verge of introduction and how they may impact you. Additionally, viewers of this course will be given access to an archive of 12 years of trends, to help you understand how design arrived where it is today and determining where it will be tomorrow.

Now any architect can create beautiful renders quickly. With Lumion, you work in real time. Production-quality images can be saved to disk in seconds. Lumion can also produce videos and animated sequences from the same project file. In this course, instructor Brian Myers covers the essentials of this powerful visualization tool. Learn how to import CAD models, add cameras, and build out a beautiful environment, with different types of virtual weather and terrain. Brian shows how to add water features and foliage, as well as assign and adjust materials to help your renders look more realistic. Plus, learn how to work with the Build Mode context menu to replace, move, duplicate, and randomize positioning of items—without affecting any of the other objects or settings in your render. Brian closes the course by showing how to render video and still images with the same steps you can use in your own Lumion projects.

Want to incorporate machine learning into your iOS app? With the Core ML SDK and the Create ML app from Apple, you can quickly start integrating machine learning features into your projects. In this course, Emmanuel Henri covers the basics of machine learning, as well as how to work with Core ML and Create ML to add machine learning models to your apps. Emmanuel covers the different parts of the Core ML SDK, how to set up a new project using Create ML, and how to get input values into and test a model. He also steps through how to integrate your machine learning model into an iOS application and convert models from non-iOS sources.

Excel, R, and Power BI are applications universally used in data science and across businesses and organizations around the world. If you’ve spent any time trying to figure out how to better model your data to get useful insights from it that you can act upon, you’ve most likely encountered these applications. In this course, Helen Wall shows how to use Excel, R, and Power BI for logistic regression in order to model data to predict the classification labels like detecting fraud or medical trial successes. Helen walks through several examples of logistic regression. She shows how to use Excel to tangibly calculate the regression model, then use R for more intensive calculations and visualizations. She then illustrates how to use Power BI to integrate the capabilities of Excel calculations and R in a scalable, sharable model.

Welcome to Machine Learning with ML.NET. In this course, instructor Pranav Rastogi guides you through the concepts of machine learning, what you can build with these concepts, and how to get started. First, Pranav explains what ML.NET is and what you can do with the framework. He covers how to build a ML model for sentiment analysis of customer reviews and explains how to classify incoming GitHub issues into one of the many tags (labels) using a multiclass classification algorithm. Pranav shows you how to recommend movies for users using collaborative filtering-based recommendation approach. He concludes by discussing how deep learning enables many more scenarios, using sound, images, text and other data types.

This course was created by Microsoft.NET. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

You’ve probably heard about machine learning before, but have you ever wondered what that term really means? How does a machine learn? Have you thought about building a machine learning model, but didn’t know where to start? In this course, Frederick Nwanganga introduces machine learning in an approachable way and provides step-by-step guidance on how to get started with machine learning via the most in-demand language in use today, Python. Frederick starts with exactly what it means for machines to learn and the different ways they learn, then gets into how to collect, understand, and prepare data for machine learning. He also provides guided examples of how to accomplish each step using Python. Finally, he brings it all together to build, evaluate, and interpret the results of a machine learning model in Python.

Get up and running with macOS Big Sur, the operating system from Apple. Instructor Nick Brazzi provides a comprehensive overview of macOS Big Sur, sharing the fundamental concepts you need to know to work with a Mac computer. Nick steps through how to set up and configure your Mac. He then shares how to use Finder, a tool for browsing files and folders, as well as how to organize your desktop to maintain a clean workspace. Plus, learn how to launch, use, and set preferences for applications; work with email and calendars; and search the web with Safari. Whether you're a Windows user looking to make the switch to Mac—or you're new to working with computers in general—this course can help you quickly get up to speed with the basics of the Mac operating system.

Thinking of updating to macOS Big Sur? This course can help you get up to speed with the most important new features that come packed in this powerful operating system from Apple. Instructor Nick Brazzi goes over the reworked visual design in macOS Big Sur, helping you get accustomed to the OS's new look. Nick covers changes to System Preferences, as well as how to adjust settings in the Control Center—a tool that was previously only available on iPhones and iPads. Plus, he highlights changes to key applications that come bundled with macOS Big Sur, including new privacy features in Safari, the redesigned Maps application, and the option to trim and apply color, contrast, and other effects to video clips stored in your Photos library.

If you are buying a new Mac, upgrading your current Mac, or migrating from Windows, you’ll need to know the ins and outs of the latest operating system from Apple. Instructor Nick Brazzi starts with the basics: AppleID and iCloud accounts, doing the first-time setup of a new computer, configuring system preferences and user accounts. Nick explains how to connect accessories, use keyboard shortcuts, and connect to the internet. Then he dives into the many ways you can use Finder, your Mac’s equivalent of a very easily searchable filing cabinet. Nick covers how to organize items on your desktop and customize the desktop wallpaper. After stepping you through ways to launch and use applications, he presents the information you need to install, update, and manage applications.

Mailchimp may have started as a newsletter service, but since its launch it has constantly added new features and has grown into a robust marketing solution for businesses of all sizes. In this course, Virginia O'Connor takes an in-depth look at all the features Mailchimp has to offer in addition to its already popular and powerful email marketing tools, from creating landing pages for your site, connecting your online store, building social media posts and online ads, and creating postcards to send to your audience. She also shows how to use Mailchimp to better know your customers through surveys and engagement, and how to make your marketing efforts more efficient through personalization, automation, and reports.

Learn how to make professional-looking business videos that inspire customers to buy your products and services. In this course, Michael Tringe breaks down video-making into three simple, easy-to-follow steps—perfect for busy small business owners. Learn how to script your content, shoot quality visuals with a DSLR camera, and edit the video into a story with free software. Creating professional-looking videos is a great way to help your business grow online, build your brand, and differentiate your business from the competition. With this course, you can create high-quality videos you can use for your websites and marketing campaigns.

This course was created by CreatorUp. We are pleased to host this content in our library.

As a manager, making decisions is a big part of your job. Chances are you didn’t become a manager because you make bad decisions. But while some decisions are easy, cut-and-dry choices, other decisions demand significant consideration, strategy, and more buy-in from other stakeholders. How do you differentiate the important, key decisions from the others? In this course, management expert Kevin Eikenberry shows how your approach to decision-making affects the results you deliver and impacts a wide array of people and processes. Kevin highlights several types of decision-making approaches, important things to consider when making key decisions, and how to best implement the decisions and communicate your choices to all the necessary parties. By the end of this course, you’ll have a tool kit to help give you more confidence in your decisions, create better results for your organization and team, and improve your chances for success.

How can branded content help you make money? This short course offers a broad overview of ways you can make money with branded content. First, learn to identify what branded content is and which brands you want to work with. Next, discover how to build your personal brand, reel, and portfolio and use these to pitch your work to the brands you want to work with. Find out how to establish a creative brief, write the scope of work, and plan production and deliverables, then explore effective ways to deliver on your plans, invoice for your work, and follow up with your clients.

Note: This course was created by CreatorUp. We are pleased to host this training in our library.