Learn how to develop custom apps, also called skills, for Alexa, the Echo brand of smart speaker devices from Amazon.

Get started with Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app development by learning about layout and navigation.

In this course, learn how to make Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps richer by incorporating voice and speech.

Learn about some of the basic controls that ship with the Universal Windows Platform, as well as control patterns created from them.

Add to your UWP app development tool kit by learning more how to use the default controls, implement custom controls, and integrate third-party controls into your apps.

Explore networking and storage in UWP app development. Learn how to connect to web services, perform tasks in the background, use file pickers, and use local or roaming storage.

Learn about data binding, commanding, and value converters, and the role each one plays in UWP app development.

In this installment of the Developing UWP Apps series, explore Universal Windows Platform (UWP) multimedia and printing concepts.

Discover how to use tiles, toasts, and push notifications. Learn about toast interactivity, adaptive styling, and integrating push notifications.

Learn how to use Azure Blob storage and Table Storage—as well as Microsoft Graph—to leverage cloud-based resources for your apps.

Learn about the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) background task API. Explore background tasks, triggers, and conditions, and review examples of when to use them.

Today's audiences crave custom, quality visual content delivered with intent—but they don't respond to one-off content pieces the way they used to. Gone are the days when a single infographic could garner thousands of views and backlinks. Today, audience expectations have grown and with that, successful brand marketers are combining 12–14 types of visual content into single campaigns to meet those expectations. This means that the growing demand for skilled designers will continue long into the future. To remain relevant, designers will be expected to both art direct and execute on these campaigns, stretching their skillsets across dozens of visual content mediums.

In this course, Amy Balliett—CEO of the visual communications agency, Killer Infographics—provides an in-depth look behind the curtain of visual campaigns. She shares her experiences and the lessons she learned from developing over 100 visual campaigns for Fortune 1000 clients and nonprofits, explaining how to develop a successful campaign from start to finish. She walks through how to concept and plan a campaign, and how to pitch that campaign to clients and colleagues. Amy also takes you through how to develop a visual language to guide your campaign, and shares how to avoid common pitfalls.

Discover Visual Studio Code, a free and lightweight cross-platform code editor. Learn how to find errors in your code, use snippets, adjust preferences, and set up version control.

Creativity is the top skill that companies seek in their employees, but as leaders, how many of us optimize our own creative skill-building? In this course, instructor Denise Jacobs identifies how to shift into a creativity mindset, ignite and up-level your own creative thinking, and cultivate creative confidence in your teams. Denise begins with ways you can develop a creativity-thinking mindset, prevail over perfectionism, and lay a foundation to amplify creative thinking. She steps you through techniques to ignite your creative spark and up-level your creative problem-solving. Denise concludes by teaching you ways you can build creative confidence in yourself and your teams. By building your creativity-thinking skills, you can become a connected and trusted role model, able to spark change that transforms workplaces for the better.

Learn how to enhance your personal performance and build effective relationships at work by developing emotional intelligence.

Define and share your own authentic leadership philosophy in this hands-on course.

Fast-track your transition into the professional world. Discover how to successfully acclimate to a new workplace and develop an image that creates a positive impact.

Learn how to address the unique development needs of different team members and determine how to best allocate your time as you help your employees improve their performance.

Learn the principles of supporting DevOps and how to apply them to data science.

If you’re already familiar with DevOps practices and are wondering if these methods can apply to databases as well, this is the course for you. In this project-focused course from CloudSkills, instructor Michael Levan reveals how DevOps for databases is not all that different from what you might already be doing. Michael starts off with some basics of DevOps for databases, like why it’s important, and the tools you use in DevOps today that can be used with databases. He then gets into the project, showing how to create a MySQL database with Terraform, and how to take that same Terraform configuration and automate, via CI/CD, the MySQL dataset creation with Azure DevOps. If you’ve been wondering why you might want to use DevOps for databases, this course provides some answers—you no longer have to hold up app delivery; collaboration between teams means better deployment outcomes, procedures, and automation—along with a project you can work on that illustrates these benefits.

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