Are you ready to turn your creative interests into your next career move? This brief course gives you an overview of what you need to get your business started. Learn how to establish your business as an entity, including setting up a DBA and a registered agent. Find out how to set up and secure bank accounts, taxes, an EIN, and business credit for your business. Explore how to brand your business, and discover how prospecting, lead generation, a good support team, and solid financial management can set up your business for success.

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.NET 5 is the unifying release of the cross-platform, open-source framework from Microsoft. In this course, instructor Walt Ritscher gives you a first look at .NET 5, presenting a broad view of the features included in this release. He explores the .NET versions and changes to the .NET name. He examines the .NET pieces included in the release. He shows you init-only properties, the C# Record type, and top-level statements, then goes into container, JSON, and deployment improvements. Walt looks at the Visual Studio 2019 updates, improved Git integration, JavaScript debugging tools, and XAML hot reload. He discusses Blazor, a front-end (UI) framework that lets you build interactive web UIs using C# instead of JavaScript. In closing, Walt goes over Entity Framework Core, a lightweight, extensible, open-source, cross-platform version of the popular Entity Framework data access technology.

Get a brief introduction to Java 14 and its new features, as well as the deprecated features announced in this release.

Curious about what's new in Java 15? Tune into this course to get up to speed with the latest features in this release.

Get your first look at the changes and new features in Java 9, including Project Jigsaw, JShell, and the enhanced Process API.

Get up and running with MySQL 8. Learn how to leverage its radical new capabilities to design and build robust, elegant, scalable, and secure applications in less time and effort.

Get a high-level overview of the most significant improvements and new features introduced in PHP 7.4.

Python, like any modern language, is always evolving. In this course, instructor Claire Burn dives into Python 3.9, highlighting the new features, improvements, and deprecations packed into this release. Learn about the significant Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) included in Python 3.9, as well as how to distinguish which modules are new (and why they are notable). Discover which modules have been deprecated and why this was necessary. Plus, get tips for overcoming common challenges while porting from Python 2 to Python 3.9, or Python 3.x to Python 3.9.

Take a look at Rust, a systems programming language that specializes in running fast, preventing crashes, and keeping threads safe.

Combining object-oriented and functional concepts, Scala is a concise and eminently scalable language. It provides all the advantages of a new programming methodology while still allowing you to access all the features of the JVM. And with the release of Scala 3.0, developers can now access a more refined version of the language—as well as several new features. In this course, instructor Noel Welsh provides a broad overview of Scala 3.0, covering the concepts and features you'd most likely need to know to complete a project with this iteration of the language. Discover how to install Scala and familiarize yourself with the latest and greatest features and updates, including the new indentation-based syntax and how Scala 3.0 has reworked the language features formerly known as implicits.

Discover the enhancements available in Scratch 3.0, the block-based visual programming language. This course compares 2.0 to 3.0 and shows how to use new and revised features.

Get up to speed with all of the latest features offered in Visual Studio 2019.

WordPress has come a long way since the first version in 2003. What started as simple blogging software has become a full-fledged content management system used by companies large and small all over the world. One of the biggest changes came in 2018 with the introduction of blocks, which fundamentally changed how you edit content in WordPress. Now, a variety of block types—headings, images, quotes, and more—are used to create rich content. In this course, Carrie Dils takes a look at the next big change coming to WordPress, full-site editing. With full-site editing, the block editor is used for all aspects of the site, not just the content area. Headers, footers, and sidebars alike can be formatted and populated with blocks. While full-site editing is still in the early stages of development and adoption, if you’re a WordPress developer, this first-look course provides a good introduction to the concepts and a way for you to get ready when full-site editing officially lands.

Explore three ways to fix and/or remove distracting backgrounds and foregrounds.

Master the controls and creative options of your Canon speedlight—one of the most liberating photography tools you can buy. Learn on-camera and off-camera flash techniques.

Master the controls and creative options of your Nikon speedlight—one of the most liberating photography tools you can buy. Learn on-camera and off-camera flash techniques.

Provides a solid foundation in Flash Professional CS6 and shows how to create an assortment of Flash content.

Learn the basics of Flask, a Python framework for building lightweight and dynamic web applications.

Learn how to create a flexible visual identity system that can communicate a brand at any size, in any format.