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About This Course:

The Business and Professional Communications for Success program will provide learners with the essential knowledge to create appropriate business messages and apply proper business writing techniques in their written business communications, all while working in diverse environments. This program also examines the various types of business presentations in the work environment and allows learners to apply their knowledge to create and present their work.

Business Writing Techniques will expand on the different communication styles of business writers. We will discuss business writers’ best practices by providing real-world scenarios and applications such as proofreading and rewriting. Learners will examine how to use the 6 C’s to enhance their business messages. Learners will also discuss the proper etiquette of business writing and examine the use of emoji in business communications.

What You’ll Learn:

By the end of this course learners will be able to:

● Identify Parts of a business letter

● Examine the 6 C’s for business messages

● Evaluate Direct Vs. Indirect messages

● Examine the use of emojis in the business setting

Meet Your Instructor:

Debora Sepich

EdD MBA at Doane University

Debora Sepich is an entrepreneur turned educator who has spent the last 15 years blurring the lines between the world of work and the halls of education. Debora is the Director of Graduate Business and Technology Programs at Doane University. Prior to working at Doane University, she founded Dolphin Software, an environmental health and safety software company focused on supporting pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and other highly regulated industries focus on protecting people, the planet while also making sustainable profits. Debora is delighted to be marrying her years of applied business experience with online education.

About This Course:

The Business and Professional Communications for Success program will provide learners with the essential knowledge of effective business communications to aid in their company’s success. Learners will create appropriate business messages through business letters and messaging and apply proper business communications techniques and business writing techniques. Learners will examine the basics of business communication while working in diverse business environments with diverse team members. This program also examines the various types of business presentations in the work environment. It allows learners to apply their knowledge to create and present their work for internal and external communication.

Learners will engage with the fundamentals of business communication. Learners will discover different communication styles and how to address them in a business setting. Learners will also assess their listening styles and emotional intelligence and how both can affect their communication skills.

What You’ll Learn:

By the end of this course learners will be able to:
Define communication
Examine the communication principles
Identify the Communication Model
Identify ways to effectively listen
Identify their communication style
Examine Emotional Intelligence and its use in communication

Meet Your Instructor:

Debora Sepich

EdD MBA at Doane University

Debora Sepich is an entrepreneur turned educator who has spent the last 15 years blurring the lines between the world of work and the halls of education. Debora is the Director of Graduate Business and Technology Programs at Doane University. Prior to working at Doane University, she founded Dolphin Software, an environmental health and safety software company focused on supporting pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and other highly regulated industries focus on protecting people, the planet while also making sustainable profits. Debora is delighted to be marrying her years of applied business experience with online education.

About this course

Want to know how to avoid bad decisions with data?

Making good decisions with data can give you a distinct competitive advantage in business. This statistics and data analysis course will help you understand the fundamental concepts of sound statistical thinking that can be applied in surprisingly wide contexts, sometimes even before there is any data! Key concepts like understanding variation, perceiving relative risk of alternative decisions, and pinpointing sources of variation will be highlighted.

These big picture ideas have motivated the development of quantitative models, but in most traditional statistics courses, these concepts get lost behind a wall of little techniques and computations. In this course we keep the focus on the ideas that really matter, and we illustrate them with lively, practical, accessible examples.

We will explore questions like: How are traditional statistical methods still relevant in modern analytics applications? How can we avoid common fallacies and misconceptions when approaching quantitative problems? How do we apply statistical methods in predictive applications? How do we gain a better understanding of customer engagement through analytics?

This course will be is relevant for anyone eager to have a framework for good decision-making. It will be good preparation for students with a bachelor’s degree contemplating graduate study in a business field.

Opportunities in analytics are abundant at the moment. Specific techniques or software packages may be helpful in landing first jobs, but those techniques and packages may soon be replaced by something newer and trendier. Understanding the ways in which quantitative models really work, however, is a management level skill that is unlikely to go out of style.

What you’ll learn

Variability in the real world and implications for decision making
Data types and data quality with appropriate visualizations
Apply data analysis to managerial decisions, especially in start-ups
Making effective decisions from no data to big data (what should we collect and then what do we do with all this data?)

Meet your instructors

Rick Cleary

Professor Rick Cleary is a statistician and mathematician with research and consulting interests in a variety of fields including sports, biomechanics, and statistical approaches to fraud detection and audit risk. Prior to coming to Babson College in 2013, Professor Cleary taught at St. Michael’s College in Vermont, Cornell University, Bentley University, and Harvard University. He has held many leadership positions in the Mathematical Association of America, including six years on the Executive Committee as Associate Treasurer and a term as chair of the Joint Data Committee. He is currently on the Nominations Committee and the Polya lecturer selection committee. Professor Cleary enjoys working with mathematics teachers at all levels to improve statistics education and he gives frequent talks and workshops on ways to encourage statistical thinking.

Nathan Karst

Dr. Nathan Karst received his B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in 2007 and his doctorate in applied mathematics from Cornell. He is an avid teacher and researcher, having won the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2014 and the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship in 2015. Most recently, his research has focused on the role of nonlinear dynamics in microvascular networks and event-scale streamflow recession variability.

Davit Khachatryan

Dr. Davit Khachatryan is an Assistant Professor of Statistics and Analytics at Babson College. He is an applied statistician with research interests in analyzing intellectual property data to study the formation and diffusion of knowledge in emerging industries. Davit’s current and former research has produced publications in academic, peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series C), The American Statistician, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (forthcoming), and Quality and Reliability Engineering International. Prior to joining Babson College, Davit was a Senior Associate at the National Economics and Statistics practice of Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC). In the latter role he consulted in the area of predictive modeling and advanced data analytics, helping clients from financial, healthcare, and government sectors with building automatic predictive models and enhancing business intelligence solutions. Davit has earned his B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Informatics from Yerevan State University, M.S. in Statistics and Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

George Recck

Mr. Recck has taught at Babson College since 1984. He currently serves as the Chair of the Business Analytics/Statistics Education special interest group for the American Statistical Association (ASA). Mr. Recck is also the founder of Total Information, Inc., an consulting firm specializing in providing information service to small businesses.

Babak Zafari

†Dr. Zafari is an Assistant Professor of Analytics and Statistics in the Math & Science Division. His area of interests are Predictive Modeling and Data Mining Methods for Business Applications, Bayesian Statistics, Healthcare Fraud Analytics and Online Auctions. Prior to joining Babson College, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at The George Washington University School of Business teaching courses in Data Analysis and Decisions, Business Analytics and Data Mining. He was also a senior statistician consultant at Integrity Management Services where he was responsible for developing statistical models for fraud detection in Medicare and Medicaid programs. He received his B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Sharif University of Technology, M.S. in Operations Research/Computer Science from Bowling Green State University and Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from The George Washington University School of Business.

About MIT horizon

MIT Horizon is an expansive content library built to help you explore emerging technologies. Through easy-to-understand lessons, you’ll be guided through the complexities of the latest technologies and simplified expert-level concepts. Designed for both technical and non-technical learners, you can examine bite-size content that can lead to maximum career outcomes.

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What is a bootcamp?

Our facilitated bootcamps focus on rapid skill acquisition by progressing you through a standard course on an accelerated schedule with peers who are committed to progressing on pace. Our bootcamps include:

Live kick-off event
Instructor facilitated Q&A for expert feedback and coaching
Learner Success Support: welcome call, advising sessions, personalized pace reminders
24/7 help desk

About This Course:

In this bootcamp you will learn how data scientists exercise statistical thinking in designing data collection, derive insights from visualizing data, obtain supporting evidence for data-based decisions and construct models for predicting future trends from data.

This course can be used towards completion of a Professional Certificate in Data Science for Executives.

What You Will Learn:

Data collection, analysis and inference
Data classification to identify key traits and customers
Conditional Probability-How to judge the probability of an event, based on certain conditions
How to use Bayesian modeling and inference for forecasting and studying public opinion
Basics of Linear Regression
Data Visualization: How to create use data to create compelling graphics

Professional Certificate in Data Science for Executives

Learn the foundations and power of data science

Statistical Thinking for Data Science and Analytics

Machine Learning for Data Science and Analytics

Enabling Technologies for Data Science and Analytics: The Internet of Things

3 Courses 4 Months 7 - 10 Hours per week

Complete Program $267.30

Program Details

Meet Your Instructors:

Andrew Gelman

Andrew Gelman is a professor of statistics and political science and director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University. He has received the Outstanding Statistical Application award from the American Statistical Association, the award for best article published in the American Political Science Review, and the Council of Presidents of Statistical Societies award for outstanding contributions by a person under the age of 40. Andrew has done research on a wide range of topics, including: why it is rational to vote; why campaign polls are so variable when elections are so predictable; why redistricting is good for democracy; reversals of death sentences; police stops in New York City, the statistical challenges of estimating small effects; the probability that your vote will be decisive; seats and votes in Congress; social network structure; arsenic in Bangladesh; radon in your basement; toxicology; medical imaging; and methods in surveys, experimental design, statistical inference, computation, and graphics.

David Madigan

David Madigan received a bachelor’s degree in Mathematical Sciences and a Ph.D. in Statistics, both from Trinity College Dublin. He has previously worked for AT&T Inc., Soliloquy Inc., the University of Washington, Rutgers University, and SkillSoft, Inc. He has over 100 publications in such areas as Bayesian statistics, text mining, Monte Carlo methods, pharmacovigilance and probabilistic graphical models. He is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He recently completed a term as Editor-in-Chief of Statistical Science.

Lauren Hannah

Lauren Hannah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Columbia University. Dr. Hannah received a Ph.D. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University, and an A.B. in Classics, again from Princeton University. After completing her Ph.D., Dr. Hannah completed a postdoc at Duke in the Statistical Science Department. Her interests include machine learning, Bayesian statistics, and energy applications.

Eva Ascarza

Eva Ascarza is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Columbia Business School. She is a marketing modeler who uses tools from statistics and economics to answer marketing questions. Her main research areas are customer analytics and pricing in the context of subscription businesses. She specializes in understanding and predicting changes in customer behavior, such as customer retention and usage. Another stream of her research focuses on developing statistical methodologies to be used by marketing practitioners. She received her PhD from London Business School (UK) and a MS in Economics and Finance from Universidad de Navarra (Spain).

About this course

Businesses today have access to an increasingly large amount of detailed customer data, and this influx of “big data” is only going to continue. Combined with a detailed history of marketing actions, there is a newfound potential for deriving actionable insights, but you need the tools to do so. Using real-world applications from various industries, this course will help you understand the tools and strategies used to make data-driven decisions that you can put to use in your own company or business.

This valuable data may include in-store and online customer transactions, customer surveys, web analytics, as well as prices and advertising. You’ll also learn how to assess critical managerial problems, develop relevant hypotheses, analyze data and, most importantly, draw inferences to create convincing narratives which yield actionable results. Artificial intelligence and machine learning will be explored as tools to deepen analytical skills and acumen and hone decision making.

This comprehensive exploration into digital marketing analytics tools and techniques is critical knowledge for any marketing influencers, digital marketing analysts and product and brand decision makers within small and medium businesses as well as larger organizations with international reach.

What you’ll learn

SEO and SEM – KPIs and keyword strategies
Web Analytics – A/B Testing
Recommendation Systems
Machine Learning/AI applications/Big Data
Text and Image Analysis
Attribution/MMM

Meet your instructor

Michael Trusov

Michael Trusov is Professor of Marketing at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He is also the Academic Director of the MS in Marketing Analytics program. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA. He also holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and a Master's degree in Business Administration. **** His research interests include Internet Marketing (social media marketing, search engine marketing, social networks, clickstream analysis, electronic word-of-mouth marketing, e-commerce, recommendation systems, consumer-generated content), Text Analysis, Eye-tracking and Data Mining. **** Professor Trusov has extensive industry experience. He spent seven years working in the area of software development and IT consulting in the Southern California region, specializing in marketing automation, database management, Internet applications, and e-commerce. He teaches Digital Marketing and Digital Analytics courses across various programs at the University of Maryland.

Liye Ma

Liye Ma teaches the undergraduate Marketing Research Methods class and the Data Science class in the MS Marketing Analytics program. His research focuses on the dynamic interactions of firms and consumers on Internet, social media, and mobile platforms. His work has been published in various journals including Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science, and Information Systems Research. He joined the Marketing Department in Fall 2011 after obtaining the Ph.D. degree from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.

About this course

In this course, you will gain an understanding of time-honored financial concepts and rules, and how these can be applied to value firms, bonds, and stocks.

We will cover the time value of money, cost of capital and capital budgeting. You will be using Excel for many process including valuing bonds and stocks, computing NPV and finding IRR.

An introductory finance course that is required for all first-year MBA students at Columbia Business School, the course is taught by a world-class instructor, actively training the next generation of market leaders on Wall Street.

Participants from all backgrounds will be prepared to participate on the ever-evolving financial playing field.

What you’ll learn

How to value any asset
Decide which projects to take out of the many a corporation might be considering
Compute the return on any project
Compute the value that a project adds
Value a bond and compute its yield
Value a stock using a simple model (i.e., determine the fair price of a stock)

Syllabus

Week 1: The Time Value of Money & Present Value
Week 2: Net Present Value & The Internal Rate of Return Rule
Week 3: Capital Budgeting
Week 4: Valuation of Bonds and Stocks

Meet your instructor

Daniel Wolfenzon

Daniel Wolfenzon is the Stefan H. Robock Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School. He received a Masters and a PhD in economics from Harvard University and holds a BS in economics and a BS in mechanical engineering from MIT. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Areas of Research: His research interests are in corporate finance and organizational economics. He has studied control sharing in small firms, the effects of investor protection on ownership concentration, and the structure of business groups around the world. His most recent research focuses on family firms. He has examined the consequences of family succession on firm performance and also the importance of managerial talent in family controlled firms.

About this course

Research from the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Mckinsey shows that AI will increasingly disrupt what we do, who does it and how all work is done – e.g. humans versus machines. On the positive side, AI is expected to add significant growth and value to the world’s economy for the companies and countries that get it. As such, it is more important than ever that all leaders, managers, executives and board members develop their AI skills to compete and prosper in the AI world.

However, most leaders, executives and board members lack the necessary AI education, skills, strategies and tactics to create AI-powered business models with platform and network effects. Further, they don’t understand how AI will impact their customers, employees, investors, operations and product/service offerings.

WHAT TO EXPECT

AI for Leaders features a series of lessons with video lectures, real world case studies, and hands on practice sessions that will help you learn the skills you need to advance your company and career. In addition, you will learn how to leverage today’s AI capabilities to improve your organization’s:

a). Customer offerings and interactions,
b). Employee engagement and capabilities,
c). Operations,
d). Competitive positioning, and
e). The 7 attributes of AI centered leadership.

Finally, our program provides 5 clear steps, which we call PIVOT – that help you and your organization build today’s modern business model – along with a capstone project focused on how you build your own AI powered (autonomous) business model.

WHAT THIS COURSE CONTAINS

To ensure your success as a leader in the AI world, this course contains:

40+ videos
Lectures from renowned faculty and business practitioners
Real-world case studies
25+ exercises
Preeminent articles from world class publications including HBR, Forbes and MITSMR

WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE

All leaders, board members, executives and team leaders at all types of organizations and at all levels should take this course. Further if you are looking to rise to a new role in your company, this course will arm you with the tools and techniques you need to drive your career and organization into the world of AI powered platforms and join companies like, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Uber and Airbnb who are at the forefront of this revolution.

What you’ll learn

How platform business models and AI technologies complement each other.
The characteristics of leaders that embrace AI powered platform business models.
Where to look for data and what data is valuable to your business and AI.
How you can get started and the 5 steps for success – which we call PIVOT.
How your organization and team can catch-up with today’s leaders.
The economics of these new technologies and business models.
The 7 attributes of AI led organizations.

Meet your instructor

Thomas Davenport

Tom Davenport is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, cofounder of the International Institute for Analytics, Fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics. He teaches analytics/big data in executive programs at Babson, Harvard Business School and School of Public Health, and MIT Sloan School. Davenport pioneered the concept of “competing on analytics” with his best-selling 2006 Harvard Business Review article and 2007 book. His most recent book (with Julia Kirby) is Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines. He wrote or edited seventeen other books and over 100 articles for Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, The Financial Times, and many other publications. He is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal. He has been named one of the top 25 consultants by Consulting News, one of the 100 most influential people in the IT industry by Ziff-Davis, and one of the world’s top fifty business school professors by Fortune magazine.

Megan Beck

Megan Beck is the Chief Product Officer at AIMatters, a digital startup that uses alternative data and AI to reframe how companies are valued in the era of transformational technology such social, mobile, big data, and machine learning. AIMatters uses new datasets to create AI-based products and services to help leaders, organizations, and investors manage and invest more wisely. Megan leads research, publication, curriculum, and new product initiatives for AIMatters. Megan coauthored The Network Imperative: How to Survive and Grow in the Age of Digital Business Models, published by the Harvard Business Review Press in 2016. She has published articles with Forbes, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal and many others and gives key notes on topics such as business model transformation, the gig economy, artificial intelligence, alternative data, and women in the workforce. Entering the workforce as an engineer, Megan later transitioned to strategy consulting and spent several years at Bain & Company before leaving to advise clients directly in her areas of expertise. A loyal Longhorn, she received a BS in Computer Science and a BA in the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds an MBA from the McCombs School of Business and resides in Dallas, TX.

Barry Libert

Barry is a digital board member, CEO and board advisor. He is the founder and chairman of AIMatters, Inc., an AI start up that is reinventing consulting. He is an expert in digital business models – particularly platforms, networks and AI. Barry served as a senior fellow at The Wharton School where he led their research into new business models (platforms with network effect) at the SEI Center since 2011. Barry has spent the last 6 years advising CEOs and boards on how to transform their business models from product to platform, customer to network, and data to AI in order to achieve exponential growth and value. His startup portfolio companies, collectively, have built and managed more than 15,000 customer and employee networks with more than 40 million users for 350 brands with more than 100 million fans. Current boards include Enterprise Community Inc., Bellwether, Wharton’s SEI Center, as well as a variety of start-ups. Past and present institutional clients include Barrick Gold, iRobot, Salesforce, Microsoft, GE Healthcare, Sun Life, Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, PWC, and ESPN. Barry is an active columnist for HBR, Forbes, Knowledge at Warton and MIT’s Sloan Management Review (SMR). Starting in 2018, he will add CIO to his monthly features. His sixth book, The Network Imperative was published in June 2016 by Harvard Business Review (HBR) Press. This book, along with his others – including We Are Smarter than Me and Social Nation - focuses on why and how digital business models outperform all other types. Mr. Libert has delivered more than 500+ keynote speeches to 50,000 people globally at leading industry conferences, private corporate events, and institutional investor gatherings. He has published 1,250+ articles in such periodicals as Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Barron's, and The New York Times. He has also appeared on CNN, CNBC, Fox News Network, NPR, and Facebook Live. Barry began his career with McKinsey & Company, is a graduate of Tufts University (Magna Cum Laude) and holds an MBA from Columbia University (Beta Gamma Sigma).

About This Course:

This health course focuses on the stories of people with intellectual disabilities around the world, as well as their families and supporters.

You will learn about the challenges and aid received in healthcare for people with intellectual disabilities, including their experience of specific syndromes and communication difficulties, and how they stay healthy.

Learners will also hear from family members as they discuss complex care, rare syndromes, early death, and planning for independence. The end of the course will focus on the history of treatment, the impact of rights’ movements on healthcare delivery, common health conditions, and health promotion.

This course is open to anyone, but will be of particular relevance to those in the field of advanced medical, allied health, and disability. This course can also be used as workforce education for medical professionals in this field.

What You’ll Learn:

Insights into the daily life of those with intellectual disabilities and their families
Challenges and obstacles experienced and how these are overcome
Specific healthcare needs and how to promote good health for people with an intellectual disability

XSeries Program in Intellectual Disability Healthcare

Understand the barriers and enablers

Through My Eyes - Intellectual Disability Healthcare around the World

Well and Able - Improving the Physical Health of People with Intellectual Disability

Able-Minded - Mental Health and People with Intellectual Disability

3 Courses 4 Months 1 - 2 Hours per week

Complete Program $159.30

Program Details

Meet Your Instructors:

Nicholas Lennox

Nick is the former Director of the Queensland Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability at the University of Queensland. He is a researcher, educator, advocate and clinician and has specialised in the health of adults with intellectual disability since 1992. He is trained in general practice, and has developed interventions to improve the health of people with intellectual disability.

Miriam Taylor

Miriam is the former Education Coordinator at the Queensland Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability in the School of Medicine at the University of Queensland. She has a wealth of educational design experience for multi-users including people with intellectual disability, their families, disability organisations and health practitioners. Miriam has established an ongoing international collaboration with and is an invited contributor to the first World Disability Report for the World Health Organisation.

Overview

Linux skills are in high demand. Learn the fundamentals with this comprehensive video training that will ensure you have the tools you need to succeed.

Linux Fundamentals LiveLessons has more than 10 hours of comprehensive video training for you to have everything you need to build a strong understanding of working with Linux.

You will start with Linux Fundamentals LiveLessons, a full video course on Linux basics, concepts, practices, and theories so you can get a foundational knowledge of Linux.

Through the use of topic-focused instructional videos you will gain an in-depth understanding of Linux. The combination of demonstrations, white board instruction, and hands-on labs is a unique offering that gives you a full toolkit to enhance your learning, and provide a seamless path forward should you want to get certified for Linux Foundation CompTIA Linux+ or other entry-level Linux exams. Labs are presented at the end of each lesson, giving you the opportunity to test out the skills you have learned over the lesson. Sander then walks you through the Lab Solution to compare how you did.

Topics include:

Module 1: Essential Commands
Module 2: User and Group Management and Permissions
Module 3: Operating Running Systems

Honor Code Certificate

Learners who complete this course are eligible to receive an honor code certificate of completion from Pearson Advance.

About the Instructor

Sander van Vugt has been teaching Linux classes since 1995 and has written more than 60 books about different Linux-related topics.

Sander is a Red Hat Certified Instructor and has deep knowledge and understanding of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. He has been teaching Linux since 1994, and as a Red Hat Certified Examiner, he is authorized to proctor different Red Hat exams. He is also a regular speaker on major Linux conferences all over the world.

Skill Level

Beginning to Intermediate

Learn

Key concepts for all the objectives on the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) exam
Real-life Linux administration tasks

Who Should Take This Course

Anyone interested in learning about Linux from the ground up
Administrators currently administering UNIX systems and developers who want to write software for Linux

Lesson descriptions

Module 1, “Essential Commands,” will cover the essentials of Linux, starting with the installation of the ubuntu and CentOS distributions. Then, it will go into the essential tools, file management tools, and working with text files.

Module 2, “User and Group Management and Permissions,” covers user and group management, as well as storage management essentials. It goes into the details of the different required parts for setting up users and groups, the management of them, and more advanced features. The basic read write and execute permissions, as well as how to apply them, will be explained. Then, the more in-depth permissions, SUID, SGID, sticky bit, and umask will be covered. Lastly, partitions and file systems and how to mount filesystems onto specific directories will be explored in Lesson 9.

Module 3, “Operating Running Systems,” covers the day-to-day Linux management tasks. It starts with an explanation of networking and managing system time. Then, services and processes, including the different utilities that are used, will be detailed. Software managers, how to manage software packages, task scheduling, and reading log files will also be covered.

About Pearson Video Training

Pearson publishes expert-led video tutorials covering a wide selection of technology topics designed to teach you the skills you need to succeed. These professional and personal technology videos feature world-leading author instructors published by your trusted technology brands: Addison-Wesley, Cisco Press, Pearson IT Certification, Prentice Hall, Sams, and Que. Topics include: IT Certification, Network Security, Cisco Technology, Programming, Web Development, Mobile Development, and more. Learn more about Pearson Video training at http://www.informit.com/video.

Overview

Git Essentials will teach you the skills you need to be prove your proficiency in this popular software.

Description

Git Essentials LiveLessons teaches the skills necessary to version control with git. The first part of the course begins with the basics of Git and how to use it as an individual programmer. Part 1: Git Fundamentals covers installation and setup, fundamental commands, and how to use remote and branches in git using Github as the online hosting service to lay the foundation for more advanced workflows.

After the basics are covered, Part 2: Collaborating with Git shows how to work collaboratively with teams with git. Three common ways of collaboration are covered, including: adding other users to your project repository, forking a copy of repository and submitting changes for review, and finally using the git flow workflow.

Skill Level

Beginner

You Will Learn How To

Set up and install git
Use basic git commands
Understand remotes and branches
Add a collaborator
Push/pull branches and incorporate changes
Fork a repository and make changes while staying in sync
Work with branches
Use a Git Flow workflow

Who Should Take This Course

Individuals who want to incorporate version control and more robust collaboration methods into their workflow.

Course Pre-Requisites

Basic command line skills:
– moving to directories
– creating and editing plain text files

Table of Contents

Introduction to Git Essentials

Introduction to Part I

Part I: Git Basics

Lesson 1: Setting Up Git

Learning objectives

1.1 Understand what can Git do for you

1.2 Install Git

1.3 Configure Git

Lesson 2: Understanding and Using Git- The Basics

Learning objectives

2.1 Create a Git repository (init, status)

2.2 Track changes (add, commit, log; what is master)

2.3 Look at differences

2.4 Look around

2.5 Undo changes

2.6 Ignore things in Git

Lesson 3: Remotes and Branches

Learning objectives

3.1 Understand what GitHub is and how it’s used

3.2 Use remotes with https

3.3 Use remotes with ssh

3.4 Utilize self collaboration

3.5 Use Git for project management

3.6 Use branches on your own

3.7 Understand Git workflows

3.8 Incorporating changes after you branch

3.9 Use Git GUIs

Introduction to Part II

Part II: Collaborating with Git

Lesson 4: Adding a Collaborator

Learning objectives

4.1 Add a collaborator, push and pull down changes

4.2 Push/pull with branches and request a pull

4.3 Incorporate changes in existing branches

Lesson 5: Forking Workflow of Collaboration

Learning objectives

5.1 Fork a repository and making a change as a collaborator

5.2 Working with changes and staying in sync

5.3 Working with branches

Lesson 6: Git Flow Workflow of Collaboration

Learning objectives

6.1 Forking and making changes on a Git Flow repository

6.2 Working with changes and staying in sync

6.3 Staying in sync with conflicts

Summary

About LiveLessons Video Training

LiveLessons Video Training series promotees hundreds of hands-on, expert- led video tutorials covering a wide selection of technology topics designed to teach you the skills you need to succeed. This professional and personal technology video series features world-leading author instructors promoteed by your trusted technology brands: Addison-Wesley, Cisco Press, IBM Press, Pearson IT Certification, Prentice Hall, Sams, and Que. Topics include: IT Certification, Programming, Web Development, Mobile Development, Home and Office Technologies, Business and Management, and more. View all LiveLessons on InformIT at: http:// www.informit.com/livelessons