Although it was developed in the 1970s, Unix remains an essential skill for anyone working in technology today, and serves as the backbone of many modern technologies like smartphones, streaming services, and supercomputers. In Unix Essential Training, Kevin Skoglund teaches Unix from the ground up, starting with the basics of the command line and the most important Unix commands. Regardless of whether you’re using Mac OS, Windows, or Linux, Kevin helps you unlock the powerful capabilities of Unix by walking you through how to use command-line syntax to perform common tasks such as file management, data entry, and text manipulation. By the end of the course, you’ll have tools that you can immediately apply to your own work.

What does it take to be a great communicator, particularly in a global and culturally-diverse modern workplace? The answer is, largely, authenticity. In this course, Jonathan Wilson teaches key principles of authentic communication, real-world tips for practicing authentic communication, and how to develop cultural awareness so you can build relationships, support colleagues from underrepresented groups, and be a more effective professional. Jonathan explores what it means to be authentic in a way that celebrates who you are, resonates with others, highlights the importance of cultural differences, and energizes those around you. It may take a while and some work to attain competence and expertise in these areas, but if you’re looking to be someone who can connect with anybody with ease, navigate tricky conversations, and learn what matters to people, join Jonathan in this course.

The world is full of opportunity, but sometimes we get in our own way. Do you find yourself falling into ruts or engaging in unhelpful thinking patterns that keep you from your goals? If so, then this course can help. Join instructor Hallie Avolio as she shares strategies for unlocking your success and creating the life you've always wanted.

Hallie explains how to find your "why," determine your core values, and combine the written word and visualization to reach your goals sooner. She provides tools for dealing with mistakes and setbacks without getting derailed, and explains how to turn your core values into personal affirmations, along with other language-based techniques. Plus, learn how to calm your mind, establish habits that lead to confidence and success, and gravitate towards the right people and jobs. Unlocking your potential starts with you. After completing this course, you'll be prepared to do the work, dive in, and start to make change happen.

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

Architectural visualization renderings allow designers to create amazingly detailed virtual building models, and make the designer-client interaction much easier than in the days of hand-drawn designs. As technology catches up with imagination, it’s now possible to generate extremely detailed interactive architectural visualizations, creating a more engaging experience than just watching a video or flicking through still image renders. In this course, Joel Bradley walks you through the creation of four key types of interactions that will give arch viz artists a wide range of options on their next project. Through the creation of interactive items like computer monitors, swinging doors, and functioning light switches, Joel illustrates how adding interactive behaviors can give a client presentation a sense of immersion that helps the project move smoothly through the design phase.

Unreal Engine is a real-time 3D game engine often used to create immersive virtual worlds and interactive experiences. This course highlights techniques you can use to build landscapes and terrains, as well as the concepts underpinning terrain objects. Instructor Joel Bradley explains how landscapes can aid our visualization, then dives into ways you can set up the terrain transformations and understand sections and components as they relate to architectural visualizations. Joel goes over Twinmotion and how to use it, as well as recommendations for a new far-distance terrain. He shows you how to use Landscape Edit Layers, import terrain height data, and use the Sculpt tool. Joel steps you through paint layers, map tiling, and enhancing your visualization with landscape materials, then concludes by pointing you toward some helpful next steps.

Starting a new project in Unreal can be an intimidating process. There are a lot of settings that need to be just right for your scene to work correctly and look great. What if you didn't have to start from scratch each time? In this course, instructor Brian Bradley shows you how to create project templates that will make your workflow much more manageable and get you into creating faster. After explaining the benefits of setting up the templates you will need before you start new projects, Brian meticulously steps you through creating an Arch Viz template, including basic master materials that you can use to populate a visualization scene quickly and easily. Plus, he covers in detail the steps in creating a Product Viz template.

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

By mastering the post processing effects in Unreal, artists can have total control over the look and feel of their final scene. In this course, join instructor Joel Bradley as he goes over the essential tools and techniques you need to take your finished scene to the next level of realism. Learn how to add imperfections to the camera to better mimic how real-world cameras react. Discover how to correctly add lens effects, adjust their intensity, and tint the lens flares for greater artistic control. Learn how to use global controls and lookup tables to adjust color and lighting inside a space. Plus, learn how to create a post process material, add animated post process effects to enhance your production, and more.

Get up and running with LUNA, the new recording system from Universal Audio (UA) for fast, powerful no-latency music production. Instructor Scott Hirsch helps you set up a project with LUNA and make your first recording, configure headphone cueing mixes, and record multiple channels simultaneously in LUNA. Then discover how to record and edit MIDI tracks; use inserts, sends, and buses; and make a comp out of multiple recording tracks. Finally, learn how to output your final mixdown and mix stems as well as export tracks to other DAWs, all using the analog processing emulations from UA.

Have you wondered how to use your Spark account to promote your brand, how to work with custom logos and fonts in Spark, or how to collaborate with others on a branded account? Wonder no more. In this course, instructor Richard Harrington shows you how to use Adobe Spark to promote your company or project. Richard goes over how to use a branded account and create consistent branding in Adobe Spark. He explains how to integrate your logo, fonts, and colors into a wealth of design options, then goes into how to create and manage the layout of templates in Adobe Spark. Richard discusses how to manage a brand and collaborate with others. He also covers essential design skills for Spark post, video, and page projects.

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

In addition to all the tools and plug-ins that make Adobe XD a standout design tool, a key advantage of XD is its place in the Adobe Creative Cloud ecosystem. In this course, Bart Van de Wiele shows how you can leverage the strength of XD with other design tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Adobe Stock. He shows how to open and place native Illustrator and Photoshop content into Adobe XD, how to share and update content with Creative Cloud Libraries, and how to leverage Adobe Stock in your creative process. In addition to showing how to bring content into Adobe XD, Bart also shows how to export content out of XD and use it in other design applications.

Kick-start your journey into big data analytics with this introductory course about .NET for Apache Spark. Instructor Brigit Murtaugh explains how .NET for Apache Spark will empower you to participate in the world of big data within the .NET ecosystem. She shows you how to create a simple .NET for Apache Spark word count application and run it on your local machine, then shows you how to write a batch processing app. Next, she steps you through a structured streaming app that processes words live as you type them into a terminal. Brigit covers how to leverage ML.NET in combination with .NET for Apache Spark to perform sentiment analysis on a set of online reviews. She teaches you how to deploy your .NET for Apache Spark app to Azure Databricks. Then she concludes by demonstrating how to deploy the .NET for Apache Spark app to Azure HDInsight.

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

Jeff Selingo visits LinkedIn Studios to weigh in on the importance of using data when making hiring decisions, the complexity of today's job market, and the trends that data science is revealing.

Why use containers with your .NET Core applications? When you write an application, you have to consider the application code, frameworks, packages, and the underlying operating system itself. Using Docker allows you to encapsulate everything you need to run an application, with all its dependencies, in one nice, neat package that you can replicate on any machine or workstation, as many times as you need. In this course, Shayne Boyer and Lisa Guthrie start with the very basics of Docker, covering the concepts and practical uses, then move on to integrating Docker with Visual Studio to help you containerize your apps with just a few clicks. Finally, Shayne and Lisa show you a simple way to publish your containerized web app.

SharePoint Syntex is a new tool that uses AI to extract information from documents and forms in SharePoint libraries. For example, you could import hundreds of contracts and have SharePoint automatically recognize the participants in the contracts and contract amounts, or you could pull totals from a set of invoices and add that information directly into a SharePoint library column. In this course, instructor Phil Gold walks through using the Syntex AI to train models to identify types of documents and forms and to define the specific information you want to capture. After defining some basic concepts and best practices, Phil steps through setting up Syntex and creating document-understanding models and form-processing models. He shows how to build classifiers and extractors for documents, create and label collections of similar forms, and add your models to your SharePoint libraries to automatically capture data previously available only through time-consuming manual labor.

Over 75 million people now use Microsoft Teams every day. The increasing number of people using Teams has changed the way users work with Outlook—one of the world's most popular desktop email clients—for communication, scheduling, and general collaboration. In this course, discover how to use these two programs together in the right balance to increase collaboration and maximize productivity. Learn about managing calendars, creating meetings and appointments, and the features of private and group chats. Explore the overlapping tools provided in both programs and which type of communication is best accomplished with each application.

Life is full of many obstacles and challenges, and we all have times when we must rise to the occasion. Is this a skill you can learn? The answer is a resounding yes. In this course, resilience expert Azim Khamisa shows you how to develop resilience and thrive through life's challenges. Rooted in the inspiring story of his own personal transformation, he walks you through how to forgive, reframe your hardships, and change your behaviors. Azim also explains how to live authentically, stay present in the moment, and thrive in a new environment. After watching this course, you'll feel empowered to navigate your own resiliency journey equipped with the tools and techniques needed to build it.

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

The security required for cloud deployments is quite different from the security applied to on-site infrastructure. In order to ensure the most effective cloud security, cloud deployments should be properly architected. In this course, instructor Malcolm Shore shows how to do this using the SABSA enterprise security architecture. Malcolm goes over strategy, planning, and the ongoing architectural management processes needed to maintain the architecture and keep it relevant. He walks you through establishing a conceptual architecture, threat modeling, and risk management, then explains how the elements of the contextual and conceptual layers work together to provide a conceptual architecture suitable for the cloud. Malcolm covers how to create the logical architecture and align security services with attributes. He concludes with a description of cloud-delivered security services and a review of what you covered in the course.

C++ is a powerful language for database applications, and it can be an excellent tool to use with SQL. In this course, instructor Bill Weinman gets you started on leveraging the power of C++ in SQL, starting with the basics, like connecting to a database, performing simple queries, and reading rows from a table. He also explains how to use prepared statements and bind variables, as well as how to build a wrapper class to streamline the SQL interface. Finally, he shows you how to build a specialized application class so you can create an application using what you learned. If you’re an experienced C++ developer looking to learn how to use C++ with SQL, this course is for you.

Are you familiar with SQL? Do you know Python? Are you interested in understanding how these two languages work together? Then join Bill Weinman in this course as he shows the power of these two languages combined. Bill starts with some basics—connecting to a database, performing simple queries, and reading rows from a table. He covers how to use prepared statements and cursors, how to build a wrapper class to streamline the SQL interface and support multiple different database engines, and how to build a CRUD class and a full-featured web application using what you've learned. Many applications require a combination of SQL and Python, and after finishing Bill’s course, you’ll have a better understanding of why and how you can leverage the power of these two languages together.

Learn how understanding the time value of money can help you figure out loan payments, save for college and retirement, rent or buy a house, lease or purchase a car, and make long-term business decisions. Accounting professors Jim and Kay Stice explain the linked concepts of the time value of money and compound interest, show you how to calculate the time value of money in Microsoft Excel or on a calculator, and how to apply the time value of money to a variety of personal and professional financial scenarios.

Learn more about interest rates and investments in the Stices' Finance Foundations course.