"Mastering Nmap" |
"You will learn how to use Nmap to implement a wide variety of practical tasks related to pentesting and network monitoring. The tutorial will start with basic scanning techniques and explain Nmap fundamentals. Moving on, we will cover the advanced functionalities of the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) such as libraries, scripts, APIs, and so on. You will be able to perform custom tasks, learn the fundamentals of Lua programming, scan and assess mail servers and databases, Windows machines and their associated services as well as large networks.About the AuthorFotis Chantzis has been a member of the main Nmap development team since 2009, when he wrote Ncrack under the mentorship of Fyodor, the original author of Nmap, during Google Summer of Code 2009 and 2010. He also represented Nmap at the Google Mentor Summit in October 2016. He is passionate about network security and is actively and professionally involved in the information security field, with his research having been published on Phrack and other venues."
Price: 124.99 |
"Android: Application Development and Design Patterns" |
"If you're a newbie in the world of app development, trying to create apps that sells on Play Store, then this course is for you.Theres no denying that Android has taken over the mobile world.Theres no denying that Android has taken over the mobile world. Android is the most common OS used in mobiles.Android NUnparalleled levels of performance. Support for the Vulkan graphics rendering API. Better security with stronger MediaServer and platform hardening. 'Seamless' Android updatesAndroid N brings in much more advancements in control and security as compared to Android M. The performance has improved. Doze gets better in Android N.Theres a rise in Android app developers in the market. You could become one among them.Application development with Android N can be summarized in these words:More apps; less timeAndroid: Application Development and Design Patterns exists as a blend of text, videos, code examples, and assessments, which together makes your learning and creating journey all the more fun and worth the cost. This course starts with an introduction on Android Nougat. By getting to know all its new features, get started on building your own application. Start off by creating its UI with Androids key developer tool the Android Studio and Android SDK. Networking concepts with the API are the next in line, followed by creating an application that will give you a practical hands on experience such as a News Reader application. Complete the building process by implementing Firebase Analytics and Crash Analysis to measure the success and health of your app.You will gradually explore the different design and layout patterns and learn the best practices on how to use them together. You will then develop an application that will help you grasp activities, services, and broadcasts and their roles in Android development. Moving on, you will add user detecting classes and APIs such as for gesture detection, touch screen listeners and sensors to our app. You will also learn to adapt your app to run on tablets and other devices and platforms, including Android Wear, Auto, and TV. Finally, you will learn to connect your app to social media.By the end of the course, youll be ready to write clean code with no code entropyand make your app stand out from the crowd.The goal of this course is to make you a skilled Android developer.If you want to be the next Android app developer in town, go for this course.This course is authored by some of the best in the field.Kyle MewKyle Mew has been programming since the early eighties and has written for several technology websites. He has also written three radio plays and three other books on Android development.Soham MondalSoham Mondal has worked with Android for about 4 years now and his own app Skyro Voice Recorder has around half a million downloads on the Play Store and has been featured there a couple of times. Apart from that, he has consulted with a bunch of start-ups on Android/UX and was an organizer with Blrdroid, one of the largest Android groups in the world."
Price: 199.99 |
"Android Design Patterns and Best Practices - Volume 1" |
"Are you an Android developer with some experience under your belt? Are you wondering how the experts create efficient and good-looking apps? With this video, your wait is over! We will teach you about different Android development patterns that will enable you to write clean code and make your app stand out from the crowd.Patterns provide a logical and elegant approach to solving many of the development problems that coders face. These patterns act as a guide, creating a clear path from problem to solution, and although applying a design pattern does not guarantee best practice in itself, it will hugely assist the process and make the discovery of design flaws far easier.The course starts by introducing the Android development environment and exploring its support libraries. You will gradually explore the different design and layout patterns and get to know best practices for how to use them together. Then youll develop an application that will help you grasp activities, services, and broadcasts and their roles in Android development.About the AuthorKyle Mew has been programming since the early eighties and has written for several technology websites. He has also written three radio plays and three other books on Android development."
Price: 124.99 |
"Bootstrap 4 Projects" |
"Quite often when building various web applications, you will face the need to build out beautiful and mobile responsive websites in a small time frame. Bootstrap 4 helps alleviate the pain by defining sophisticated and refined user inputs and web components ready for your use. Learn how to quickly get your projects up to speed with the worlds most popular front-end framework.Through this course, we will take you through not only Bootstrap 4's new features and changes, but create larger projects with these components and frameworks. These projects include building out the structure and design of a social media platform, comprehensive login and registration forms, and finally a music library application. Each project will provide you with a chance to use some of the new Bootstrap 4 components in the greater context of the Bootstrap framework.Having completed this course, you will have sufficient knowledge on how to build out application user interfaces that are mobile-responsive, accessible, and importantly look good, all with the help of Bootstrap 4.About the AuthorAaron Vanston is a front-end developer and product specialist based in Melbourne, Australia, specializing in usability and user experience design on the web.Aaron has a multidisciplinary background ranging from digital marketing to web application development. He is currently exploring his passion for web development through his own web development studio and start-ups/ web development teams within Melbourne.In the past, Aaron has developed a range of tutorials based on design and web development including various Bootstrap written tutorials."
Price: 124.99 |
"Getting Started With Julia" |
"Julia is a new programming language designed for the needs of data scientists, statisticians, scientific computing, and engineers. Usually these disciplines have had to use a variety of of tools and languages:MatlabPython with NumpyRC/C++ or Fortran for high performanceWith Julia you can replace all these tools with one programming language, since it offers both flexibility and speed.Julia is a young language with limited documentation and although rapidly growing, a small user community. Most developers today will know the object oriented paradigm used in mainstream languages such as Python, Java and C++. This presents a challenge switching to Julia which is more functionally oriented. This course will not only introduce the language, but also explain how to think differently about problems with the Julia approach.About the AuthorErik Engheim is a professional mobile developer with experience in many different programming languages, often in combination. Erik Engheim has worked with C/C#, Java, C++, Objective-C, and Swift before moving into Julia. His experience with Julia involves automation, and high performance processing of code strings."
Price: 124.99 |
"Fundamentals of SEMrush" |
"In this course, you will learn how to use SEMRush to research and analyze your online competition. Based on keyword and advertising research, we will demonstrate how to boost your SEO rankings and model your ad copy on successful competitor campaigns. You will also learn how to curate content and grow your social media presence using the SEMRush software. SEMrush is an SEO tool that performs the function of researching keywords, tracks your competitors by keeping a check on the keyword strategies they use, runs an SEO audit of your blog, looks for back-linking opportunities, and lots more.We will be looking at the fundamentals of competitive analysis, domain analytics, keyword analytics, creating professional reports, how to use SEMrush to improve SEO, interpreting backlink reports for SEO, and brand monitoring.About the AuthorJustin Womack is an Online Marketing Expert, Speaker, and Consultant. He is the owner of the company, Coaching Biz Mastery, and he is a Certified Partner with Infusionsoft. Justin specializes in video marketing, online funnel creation, and copywriting. He also runs workshops in the Los Angeles area to teach the fundamentals of building an online business."
Price: 124.99 |
"Learning React.js with Flux" |
"Flux is a web application development architecture created and used by Facebook. It fits seamlessly with Reactin MVC terms, Flux is the Model and Controller to Reacts View, but it actually goes much deeper than that. Flux is a new way of thinking compared to the old MVC model. Instead, it sets out a Dispatcher, Store, and View model for creating applications with much clearer data flow. Enabling you to create cleaner and more easily maintainable applications that scale better and are easier to debug.This course starts by having a running server that connects to Mongo database with Mongoose. We will also explore more about Nodemon, express, EJS, MongoDB, and Mongoose. Then we proceed to add React to present the data sent from the server. After integrating React into our workflow, the course focuses on building some of the critical components required to create the To-Do list. Then we proceed to learn about data storage and management on the client. Once you get acquainted with Flux and React, finally, the course takes us through integrating the Flux application with our backend.This course is a complete introduction to Flux, covering the new Flux paradigm and teaching how to create Flux and React web applications from the ground up.About the AuthorBen Fhala discovered his passion for data visualization six years ago while he was working at Parsons in New York, in their data visualization department, PIIM. He enjoys spending most of his time learning and teaching and has a love for visual programming and visualization in general. Ben has had the honor of developing applications for members of the US Congress, Prime Ministers, and Presidents around the world. He has built many interactive experiences for companies such as Target, AT&T, Crayola, Marriott, Neutrogena, and Nokia. He has technically directed many award-winning projects and has been part of teams that have won three Agency of the Year awards."
Price: 124.99 |
"Building Machine Learning Systems with TensorFlow" |
"This video, with the help of practical projects, highlights how TensorFlow can be used in different scenariosthis includes projects for training models, machine learning, deep learning, and working with various neural networks. Each project provides exciting and insightful exercises that will teach you how to use TensorFlow and show you how layers of data can be explored by working with tensors. Simply pick a project in line with your environment and get stacks of information on how to implement TensorFlow in production.About the AuthorRodolfo Bonnin is a Systems Engineer and PhD student at Universidad Tecnolgica Nacional, Argentina. He also pursued parallel programming and image understanding postgraduate courses at Uni Stuttgart, Germany.He has done research on High Performance Computing since 2005 and began studying and implementing convolutional neural networks in 2008,writing a CPU and GPU - supporting neural network feed forward stage. More recently he's been working in the field of fraud pattern detection with Neural Networks, and is currently working on signal classification using ML techniques.He is also the author of the book Building Machine Learning projects with Tensorflow, by Packt Publishing."
Price: 124.99 |
"Angular 2 Solutions - Intermediate Concepts" |
"Angular 2 introduces an entirely new paradigm for applications, wholly embracing all the newest concepts that are built into the next generation of browsers and cutting away all the fat and bloat from Angular 1. This course plunges directly into the heart of all the most important Angular 2 concepts. Alongside the Angular 2 content, the course covers the new ES6 syntax, Typescript conventions, Web Components, and RxJS observables, among many other brand-new concepts. The second volume of this course will cover the ES6 implementation of Promises and will show you how to integrate them with Angular 2 applications. Once youve built a good foundation for the new concepts of Angular 2 from the previous volume, youll work with implementing RxJS observables and youll understand how to use them effectively. Finally, youll learn how to inject dependencies and wrap HTTP APIs with a service. These topics will help you gradually level up your knowledge and move on to the next volume of this course.About the AuthorMatt Frisbie is currently a software engineer at Google. He was the author of the Packt Publishing bestseller AngularJS Web Application Development Cookbook and also has published several video series through O'Reilly. He is active in the Angular community, giving presentations at meetups and doing webcasts."
Price: 124.99 |
"Numerical and Scientific Computing with SciPy" |
"The SciPy Stack is a collection of Open-Source Python libraries finding their application in many areas of technical and scientific computing. It builds on the capabilities of the NumPy array object for faster computations, and contains modules and libraries for linear algebra, signal and image processing, visualization, and much more. Accordingly, gaining a solid working knowledge on some of the basic functionality of the SciPy Stack to solve mathematical models numerically is clearly the first step before one can start using it to tackle large-scale computational projects either in the industry or in the academic world.This practical course begins with an introduction to the Python SciPy Stack and a coverage of its basic usage cases. You will then delve right into the different functionalities offered by the main modules comprising the SciPy Stack (Numpy, Scipy, and Matplotlib) and see the basics on how they can be implemented in real-life scenarios. You will see how you can make the most of the algorithms in the SciPy Stack to solve problems in linear algebra, numerical analysis, visualization, and much more, including some practical examples drawn from the field of Machine Learning. By the end of this course, you will have all the knowledge you need to take your understanding of the SciPy Stack to a new level altogether, and tackle the trickiest problems in numerical and scientific computational programming with ease and confidence.About the AuthorSergio Rojas is currently a Full Professor of Physics at the Universidad Simn Bolvar, Venezuela. Regarding his formal studies, he earned in 1991 a B.S in Physics with Thesis on Numerical Relativity from the Universidad de Oriente, Estado Sucre, Venezuela, and then, in 1998, he earned a Ph.D. in Physics from the Physics Department of the City College of the City University of New York, where he worked on the applications of Fluid Dynamics in the flow of fluids in porous media, gaining and developing since then a vast experience in programming as an aid to scientific research via fortran77/90 and C/C++. In 2001, he also earned a Masters degree in computational finance from The Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology.Sergios teaching activities involve lecturing undergraduate and graduated physics courses at his home university, Universidad Simn Bolvar, Venezuela, including a course on Monte Carlo Methods and other on Computational Finance. His research interests include physics education research, fluid flow in porous media, and the application of the theory of complex systems and statistical mechanics in Financial Engineering. More recently, Sergio has been involved in Machine Learning and its applications in Science and Engineering via the Python programming language.Sergios is Co-author of the book Learning SciPy for Numerical and Scientific Computing - Second Edition (2015) and of the self-published book (in Spanish) Aprendiendo a programar en Python con mi computador: Primeros pasos rumbo a cmputos de gran escala en las Ciencias e Ingenieras, (2016)."
Price: 124.99 |
"Getting Started with Python Web Scraping" |
"Python is a high-level programming language used for general-purpose programming. It has a design philosophy which emphasizes code readability and a syntax which allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than possible in languages such as C++ or Java.This video course is a rich collection of recipes that will come in handy when you are scraping a website using Python, addressing your usual and unusual problems while scraping websites by diving deep into the capabilities of Pythonsweb scraping tools such as Selenium, BeautifulSoup, and urllib2. The video will start with showing how to use selenium module for scraping by setting up a web driver, debugging with the Console and downloading files and streamlining with a Headless Browser (PhantomJS). The video will then move on to demonstrate how to do parsing with Beautifulsoup which would include introduction to the BeautifulSoupObjects, Nested Selectors and Regular Expressions Basics and how to do UTF-8 Encoding. The video will finally end by showing how to do fetching with urlib2 by using the developer tools Network tab, how to bypass the browser and retrieve files.By The end of this video, you will be successfully able to understand the in-depth capabilities of python web scraping tools.About the AuthorCharles Clayton is a sole proprietor of crclayton technologies co and an independent web developer. He is an experienced developer and Python specialist in Python web scraping solutions and tools such asSelenium, BeautifulSoup,and urllib2. He has 2 years of experience as a Reliability Engineer with West frazweer."
Price: 124.99 |
"Learning Path: MEAN: Create MEAN Stack Apps" |
"Packts Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.Web development is moving fast and to keep up to mark, you need a technology stack that is fast too. The MEAN stack includes MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js. These tools provide a rich environment to build advanced web applications in a short space of time. All the pieces of the MEAN stack are practically tried and tested in large and small-scale organizations. This Learning Path begins by covering the fundamentals of the baseline technologies you need to know to become a full stack web developer. You will know how to work with: NPM, Node.js, Express.js, and MongoDB. We then move on to creating scalable web apps with the MEAN stack and understand how to make all MEAN components work together. Finally, you'll learn how to deploy apps to the cloud and make them available to the public. If you have no prior exposure to one of the most promising avenues of efficient web development, this Learning Path will help you get up to speed in no time. The goal of this Learning Path is to set you up with tried and tested full stack web development knowledge. This Learning Path is authored by some of the best in their fields. About the AuthorsBen Fhala is the owner of the online video training school, and an Adobe ACP. He enjoys spending most of his time learning and teaching and has a love for visual programming and visualization in general. Ben has had the honor of developing applications for members of the US Congress, Prime Ministers, and Presidents around the world. He has built many interactive experiences for companies such as Target, AT&T, Crayola, Marriott, Neutrogena, and Nokia. He has technically directed many award-winning projects and has been part of teams that have won three Agency of the Year awards. Chrispinus Onyancha is a hard-working young entrepreneur, working to impart the latest technology to his community where technology is almost mythical. He learns new things every single day and puts them into practice to create marvelous products that solve his community's problems. He has demonstrated success in leading and developing complex, multiple high-profile projects simultaneously, and has partnered extensively with local and global companies and groups to achieve scalable products with a proven track record, while delivering business changes and adding value. He is the founder of Creative DNA, an IT company majoring in media and health."
Price: 199.99 |
"Learning Path: AWS: AWS Environments with AWS Lambda" |
"Packts Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides trusted, cloud-based solutions to help you meet your business needs. Running your solutions in the AWS Cloud can help you get your applications up and running faster while providing the security to meet your compliance requirements. Amazon Lambda is the part of AWS that lets you run your code without provisioning or managing servers. Amazon Lambda is a compute service that enables you to deploy applications and backend services that operate with zero upfront cost and require no system administration. This learning path begins by showing you how to design robust large infrastructures using AWS. We will tackle the key capabilities to architect and host applications, websites, and services on AWS. We will see the available options for virtual instances and demonstrate launching and connecting to them. We will then design and deploy networking and hosting solutions for large deployments. Next, we will show you how to program AWS Lambda with Node.js, Java, Python, and C#. Finally, we will learn how to deploy and test Lambda functions, and how to set up and use the serverless framework. Start moving your business to the cloud by leveraging the skills this Learning Path promises to deliver. The goal of this Learning Path is to equip you with skills to leverage the great many promises of AWS. This Learning Path is authored by some of the best in their fields. About the AuthorsWayde Gilchrist started moving customers of his IT consulting business into the cloud and away from traditional hosting environments in 2010. In addition to consulting, he delivers AWS training for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and international consulting firms. When he is not out visiting customers, he is delivering training virtually from his home in Florida. Markus Klems is an expert on software development and system administration for scalable, high-availability, and high-performance software systems, such as big data, mobile, web application, and SaaS systems. In the context of his research and development work at TU Berlin and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Markus has gained in-depth knowledge and experience with complex and large-scale IT systems. Markus has been working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) since 2008 and is particularly excited about emerging technology trends in the realms of serverless computing and serverless microservice architectures."
Price: 199.99 |
"Learning Path: From Python Programming to Data Science" |
"Python has become the language of choice for most data analysts/data scientists to perform various tasks of data science. If youre looking forward to implementing Python in your data science projects to enhance data discovery, then this is the perfect Learning Path is for you. Starting out at the basic level, this Learning Path will take you through all the stages of data science in a step-by-step manner.Packts Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.We begin this journey with nailing down the fundamentals of Python. Youll be introduced to basic and advanced programming concepts of Python before moving on to data science topics. Then, youll learn how to perform data analysis by taking advantage of the core data science libraries in the Python ecosystem. Youll also understand the data visualization concepts better, learn how to apply them and overcome any challenges that you might face while implementing them. Moving ahead, youll learn to use a wide variety of machine learning algorithms to solve real-world problems. Finally, youll learn deep learning along with a brief introduction to TensorFlow. By the end of the Learning Path, youll be able to improve the efficiency of your data science projects using Python. Meet Your Experts: We have combined the best works of the following esteemed authors to ensure that your learning journey is smooth: Daniel Arbuckle got his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. Benjamin Hoff spent 3 years working as a software engineer and team leader doing graphics processing, desktop application development, and scientific facility simulation using a mixture of C++ and Python. Dimitry Foures is a data scientist with a background in applied mathematics and theoretical physics. Giuseppe Vettigli is a data scientist who has worked in the research industry and academia for many years. Igor Milovanovi is an experienced developer, with strong background in Linux system knowledge and software engineering education. Prateek Joshi is an artificial intelligence researcher, published author of five books, and TEDx speaker. Eder Santana is a PhD candidate on Electrical and Computer Engineering. His thesis topic is on Deep and Recurrent neural networks."
Price: 199.99 |
"Advanced VDI with VMware Horizon 7" |
"VMware Horizon 7 delivers, protects, and manages your applications and virtual desktops and ensures the end user can access them from anywhere and at any time. It is easy to have a fundamental knowledge of VMware Horizon 7 but it is way more challenging and difficult to implement and fine-tune it according to your business needs. Our video overcomes this challenge and ensures you gain the advanced and practical knowledge required to manage and implement Horizon 7 efficiently for your organization.The video starts by demonstrating advanced installation and configuration, which will help you to customize Horizon 7 according to your business requirements. Then you'll delve into the latest features of Horizon 7 such as just-in-time delivery with instant clone; modernized life cycle management, which ensures faster application delivery; better user experience; smart policies, in order to improve security; and many more. This advanced-level video will teach you to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single platform, multiple deployment scenarios, Horizon client and agent security, integration with third-party software, best practices, and troubleshooting techniques.About the AuthorPeter Von Oven is an experienced technical consultant and has spent the past 20 years of his IT career working with customers and partners in designing technology solutions aimed at delivering true business value. During his career, Peter has been involved in numerous large-scale enterprise projects and deployments and has presented at key IT events such as VMworld, IP EXPO, and various VMUGs across the UK. He has also worked in senior presales roles and senior presales management roles for IT giants such as Fujitsu, HP, Citrix, and VMware and was awarded VMware vExpert for 2015 and 2016. Over the past 10 years and more, Peter has focused his skills and experience by specializing in the desktop and application virtualization market and today works for market-leading desktop transformation specialists, Liquidware Labs. Peter got his first taste for writing when assisting with some of the chapters in the book Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View, which then led to four other Packt titles: VMware Horizon Mirage Essentials; VMware Horizon Workspace Essentials, co-written with Peter Bjork and Joel Lindberg; and VMware Horizon View Essentials and Mastering Horizon View, co-written with Barry Coombs."
Price: 124.99 |
"WordPress: Beyond the basics" |
"WordPress is one of the most popular website-building platforms in use today. It's easy to learn, has great features, and (best of all) it's free.In this course, you will learn how to create and manage your website and make it look like you had it designed by a professional.This course will show you how to create new pages, set up and structure your site, and add features to it.It will progress to theming, customizing, and making your site responsive so it works on all devices. It'll also teach you something often neglected but important: how to set the tone of the site with graphics, select a color palette, and add images in order to best tell your story to everyone.Finally, you'll learn some cool HTML5 and CSS tricks and shortcuts that will make visiting your website a pleasant experience.About the AuthorAndros T. Sturgeon is the founder of Starchild Interactive, a web development and online marketing firm located in Ojai, California. Andros has been helping people with online marketing, videos, and websites for over 20 years. Andros's father was the science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon who wrote for the original Star Trek television series and coined the phrase ""Live Long and Prosper."" While not working, he likes to spend time with his family."
Price: 124.99 |
"Secure Your Spring-Based Applications" |
"Knowing that experienced hackers are itching to test your skills makes security one of the most difficult and high-pressure concerns of creating an application. Thats where Spring Security comes into the picture to simplify things for developers. A lot has changed since version 3 and with version 4.1 in place, there have been several changes and improvements to the Java Configuration, Web Application Security, Authorization, Crypto Module as well as to Testing, along with some that have been deprecated in the current release. This course is an incremental guide that will teach you how to protect your application from malicious users.You will learn how to cleanly integrate Spring Security into your application using the latest technologies and frameworks with the help of detailed examples. The scenario created in the book revolves around a security audit of an insecure application and then modifying the sample to resolve the issues found in the audit. It starts by integrating a variety of authentication mechanisms and then demonstrates how to properly restrict access to your application. It concludes with tips on integrating with some of the more popular web frameworks. An example of how Spring Security defends against session fixation moves into concurrency control, and how you can utilize session management for administrative functions, is also included.About the AuthorAnkit Mishra is a Senior Software Engineer with extensive IT experience in mission-critical development projects and architecture designs. He has worked for giants such as Ericsson, Fidelity, and others.He has more than four years' experience in managing and delivering Spring MVC and Spring Security projects, Cloud deployment, and PaaS cloud administration. Currently, he is working on Spring micro services, Spring Security, cloud deployment, and tuning.Specialties: Red-Hat Certified engineerFunctional domains: Retail and Banking"
Price: 124.99 |
"Building Applications with Mean Stack" |
"The course helps you become a full-stack JavaScript developer. It develops your skills further by teaching you how to make all MEAN components work together. The topics covered in the course are those almost all web applications need, such as data manipulation, searching, sorting, and pagination. Also, important aspects such as user authentication and authorization are described thoroughly with appropriate examples. Finally, you'll learn how to deploy apps to the cloud and make them available to the public.About the AuthorChrispinus Onyancha is a hard-working young entrepreneur, working to impart the latest technology to his community where technology is almost mythical. He learns new things every single day and puts them into practice to finally create marvelous products that solve his community's problems.He has demonstrated success in leading and developing complex, multiple high-profile projects simultaneously, and has partnered extensively with local and global companies and groups to achieve scalable products with a proven track record, while delivering business changes and adding value. He is the founder of Creative DNA, an IT company majoring in media and health."
Price: 124.99 |
"Learning Path: OpenCV: Real-Time Computer Vision with OpenCV" |
"Are you looking forward to developing interesting computer vision applications? If yes, then this Learning Path is for you.Packts Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it. Computer vision and machine learning concepts are frequently used together in practical projects based on computer vision. Whether you are completely new to the concept of computer vision or have a basic understanding of it, this Learning Path will be your guide to understanding the basic OpenCV concepts and algorithms through amazing real-world examples and projects. OpenCV is a cross-platform, open source library that is used for face recognition, object tracking, and image and video processing. By learning the basic concepts of computer vision algorithms, models, and OpenCVs API, you will be able to develop different types of real-world applications. Starting from the installation of OpenCV on your system and understanding the basics of image processing, we swiftly move on to creating optical flow video analysis and text recognition in complex scenes. Youll explore the commonly used computer vision techniques to build your own OpenCV projects from scratch. Next, well teach you how to work with the various OpenCV modules for statistical modeling and machine learning. Youll start by preparing your data for analysis, learn about supervised and unsupervised learning, and see how to use them. Finally, youll learn to implement efficient models using the popular machine learning techniques such as classification, regression, decision trees, K-nearest neighbors, boosting, and neural networks with the aid of C++ and OpenCV. By the end of this Learning Path, you will be familiar with the basics of OpenCV such as matrix operations, filters, and histograms, as well as more advanced concepts such as segmentation, machine learning, complex video analysis, and text recognition. Meet Your Experts: We have combined the best works of the following esteemed authors to ensure that your learning journey is smooth: David Milln Escriv was eight years old when he wrote his first program on an 8086 PC with Basic language, which enabled the 2D plotting of basic equations. In 2005, he finished his studies in IT through the Universitat Politcnica de Valencia with honors in human-computer interaction supported by computer vision with OpenCV (v0.96). Prateek Joshi is an artificial intelligence researcher, published author of five books, and TEDx speaker. He is the founder of Pluto AI, a venture-funded Silicon Valley startup building an analytics platform for smart water management powered by deep learning. Joe Minichino is a computer vision engineer for Hoolux Medical by day and a developer of the NoSQL database LokiJS by night. At Hoolux, he leads the development of an Android computer vision-based advertising platform for the medical industry."
Price: 199.99 |
"Swift 3 for iOS Applications" |
"Swift, which was developed in 2010 and introduced by Apple Inc. in 2014, replaced Objective-C which was then used to code iOS applications. Swift is regarded to be safer, more concise, and readable as compared to Objective-C. Swift is now the preferred way of developing iOS applications and comes in-built with Xcode 6 onwards.This integrated course covers the basic concepts of Swift that are essential for iOS development and takes you through building iOS applications using real-time examples. Initially, it will cover the installation of Xcode and familiarize you with the environment.You will be introduced to the basics of Swift, including types, concepts, classes, structs, and so on. With a strong hold on the fundamentals, you are ready to get started with app coding. Later, we will learn how to build an application to create and query contacts. We will also discuss the different ways of storing data on the device.Towards the end of the course, we will go towards advanced projects wherein we will see how to retrieve the weather forecast information, and learn how to detect the user's location. Finally, we will we will discuss a few of the concepts that are related to test-driven development (TDD).After you complete the course, you will be able to build iOS applications using Swift, and will be able to apply a few TDD related concepts in your applications."
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"Learning Path: Python: Machine and Deep Learning with Python" |
"Do you want to explore the various arenas of machine learning and deep learning by creating insightful and interesting projects? If yes, then this Learning Path is ideal for you!Packts Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it. Machine learning and deep learning gives you unimaginably powerful insights into data. Both of these fields are increasingly pervasive in the modern data-driven world. This Learning Path begins with covering the basic-to-advanced-level concepts of Python. Then, youll explore a range of real-life scenarios where machine learning can be used. Throughout the Learning Path, you will use Python to implement a wide range of machine learning algorithms that solve real-world problems. Youll also learn a range of regression techniques, classification algorithms, predictive modeling, data visualization techniques, recommendation engines, and more with the help of real-world examples. There are six different independent projects that will help you master machine learning in Python. Finally, youll learn to build intelligent systems using deep learning with Python. By the end of this Learning Path, you should be able to build your own machine learning and deep learning models. Meet Your Experts:We have combined the best works of the following esteemed authors to ensure that your learning journey is smooth:Daniel Arbuckle got his Ph.D. In Computer Science from the University of Southern California. He has published numerous papers, along with several books and video courses, and is both a teacher of computer science and a professional programmer. Prateek Joshi is an artificial intelligence researcher, published author of five books, and TEDx speaker. He is the founder of Pluto AI, a venture-funded Silicon Valley startup building an analytics platform for smart water management powered by deep learning. His tech blog has received more than 1.2 million page views from 200 over countries and has over 6,600+ followers. Alexander T. Combs is an experienced data scientist, strategist, and developer with a background in financial data extraction, natural language processing and generation, and quantitative and statistical modeling. Eder Santana is a PhD candidate on Electrical and Computer Engineering. His thesis topic is on Deep and Recurrent neural networks. After working for 3 years with Kernel Machines (SVMs, Information Theoretic Learning, and so on), Eder moved to the field of deep learning 2.5 years ago, when he started learning Theano, Caffe, and other machine learning frameworks."
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"Learning Path: Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager" |
"If youre a systems administrator or a Windows administrator hands on SCCM 2016, this Learning Path is for you. Even if you do not have any prior knowledge of System Center Configuration Manager, do not worry. This Learning Path will address your need.System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) is a flagship systems management product from Microsoft that provides a comprehensive management solution for computer systems. It enhances administrative tasks such as keeping your software and security policies up-to-date, managing PCs and servers, and monitoring systems for your organization. SCCM: Building Concepts with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager is Packts Video Learning Path that is a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it. This Learning Path will get you started with this powerful solution and eventually enable you to effectively manage your resources. We'll teach you how to install and configure ConfigMgr, manage your devices, deploy operating systems in the enterprise, and deploy and manage applications. Then, you will learn to secure SCCM by configuring public key infrastructure, validating HTTPS mode, and configuring site roles to support HTTPS. Finally, you will learn to manage your Mac OS X using Configuration Manager, where you will be taught how to enroll your Mac device, deploy applications and settings, and explore different third-party applications. By the end of this course you will be well versed with the various advanced, yet real-world scenarios that you may come across using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. The goal of this course is to help you manage your professional systems efficiently by exploring SCCM. This Learning Path is authored by some of the best in the field. About the AuthorGerry Hampson is an author, blogger and speaker. He is a senior consultant engineer with over twenty years of experience as an IT professional. He has worked for Ergo Group, based in Dublin, Ireland, for 12 years. Gerry specializes in designing and deploying Microsoft solutions, with a particular interest in System Center Configuration Manager and Intune. He was awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Enterprise Client Management for 2015.Peter Daalmans is a technical consultant and Enterprise Mobility Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with a speciality in System Center Configuration Manager, Enterprise Mobility (Microsoft EMS) and Exchange Server."
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"Julia: Performing Statistical Computations" |
"Julia is a high-performance dynamic programming language for numerical computing. This practical guide to programming with Julia will help you to work with data more efficiently.This course begins with the important features of Julia to help you quickly refresh your knowledge of functions, modules, and arrays. Well explore utilizing the Julia language to identify, retrieve, and transform datasets so you can perform efficient data analysis and data manipulation.You will then learn the concepts of metaprogramming and statistics in Julia. Moving on, you will learn to build data science models by using several algorithms such as dimensionality reduction, linear discriminant analysis, and so on.Youll learn to optimize data science programs with parallel computing and memory allocation. Youll get familiar with the concepts of package development and networking to solve numerical problems using the Julia platform.This course includes sections on identifying and classifying data science problems, data modelling, data analysis, data manipulation, multidimensional arrays, and parallel computing. By the end of this course, you will acquire the skills to work more effectively with your data.What am I going to get from this course?Extract and manage your data efficiently with JuliaExplore the metaprogramming concepts in JuliaPerform statistical analysis with StatsBase.jl and Distributions.jlBuild your data science modelsFind out how to visualize your data with GadflyExplore big data concepts in JuliaWhats special about this course?We've spent the last decade working to help developers stay relevant. The structure of this course is a result of deep and intensive research into what real-world developers need to know in order to be job-ready. We don't spend too long on theory, and focus on practical results so that you can see for yourself how things work in action.We have combined the best of the following Packt products:Julia Cookbook by Jalem Raj RohitJulia Solutions by Jalem Raj RohitMeet yourexpert instructors:Jalem Raj Rohit is an IIT Jodhpur graduate with a keen interest in machine learning, data science, data analysis, computational statistics, and natural language processing (NLP). Rohit currently works as a senior data scientist at Zomato, also having worked as the first data scientist at Kayako. He is part of the Julia project, where he develops data science models and contributes to the codebase.Meet your managingeditor:This course has been planned and designed for you by me,Shiny Poojary. I'mhere to help you be successful every step of the way,and get maximum value out of your course purchase. If you have any questions along the way, you can reach out to me and our author group via the instructor contact feature on Udemy."
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"Learning Path: Managing Infrastructures with Microsoft SCOM" |
"If youre a systems administrator or an IT operations professional who wants to monitor your infrastructure and applications using SCOM 2016, or if you are just someone who is looking to gain expertise at System Center Operation Manager, this Learning Path is for you. As organizations become more and more dependent upon a powerful IT infrastructure, there is increased pressure on administrators to be able to monitor and troubleshoot quickly and effectively. Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) makes this possible by giving administrators a simple way to manage the performance of their infrastructure and allowing them to focus on the steps to optimize and improve it. SCOM: Manage Infrastructures with Systems Center 2016 Operations Manager is Packts Video Learning Path that is a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it. This Learning Path will start by enlightening you on the core fundamentals that will help you leverage your IT assets in order to derive high benefits. We will demonstrate the configuration and deployment aspect of SCOM and its various services based on your business requirements. We then focus on explaining the core concepts of SCOM such as Management Servers and Packs, Services, and Agents along with teaching you the latest features of SCOM 2016.This Learning Path then covers advanced monitors and data collection,where youll learn to gather data and put it on dashboards. Youll then learn to integrate the Operational Management Suite to delegate access to websites. Youll finish by learning how to Integrate PowerShell with SCOM. The goal of this Learning Path is to make a master out of you in SCOM 2016. This Learning Path is authored by some of the best in the field. About the AuthorJerome Jones is a technical instructor and consultant with over 20 years of IT and instructional experience specializing in System Center (Configuration Manager, Operations Manager, Service Manager, and Orchestrator), Windows Server, Windows Client, and Microsoft Exchange. He has been an instructor and consultant since 2005 earning his MCT, MCSE-Messaging, MCSA-Messaging, MCITP, and MCTS. Stephen Hohman has 24 years of experience with Microsoft products. He is a Senior-level Microsoft Solutions Consultant with over 24 years of experience working with clients on technology requirements. His primary areas of knowledge include a large suite of Microsoft technologies deployed in every Active Directory based environment, in addition to Exchange server and System Center 2012 R2 (Operations Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, Service Manager, AppController, App-v, Orchestrator, and Configuration Manager).Stephen Hohman has 24 years of experience with Microsoft products. He is a Senior-level Microsoft Solutions Consultant with over 24 years of experience working with clients on technology requirements. His primary areas of knowledge include a large suite of Microsoft technologies deployed in every Active Directory based environment, in addition to Exchange server and System Center 2012 R2 (Operations Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, Service Manager, AppController, App-v, Orchestrator, and Configuration Manager)."
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"Learning Path: JavaScript: Reactive & Functional JavaScript" |
"Although JavaScript has many diverse applications, it has become the programming language for the Web in the recent times. Almost always, when you see something working smoothly and interactively on the Web, you can assume that there is some JavaScript code running in the background. Packts Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it. JavaScript: Reactive and Functional JavaScript begins with describing what JavaScript is and how browsers use it. We get started with the essentialsthe JavaScript syntax. This includes comments, operators, variables, conditionals, loops, and functions. With the basics in place, we move on to learn about reactive programming, understand its need, and also look at building simple apps with good understanding of Rx. We will start off with Bacon.js and then move on to using Rx.js for both client-side and server-side applications. The final part of this Learning Path will look at writing maintainable code. You will experience the benefits of functional programming even if your code is not purely functional. You will also learn how to write code that's easy to understand, extend, test, and debug. Hands-on practice on how to use currying, partial evaluation, map, reduce, filter, recursion, and other functional programming concepts in ES6 is also covered.By the end of this course, you will be able to optimize your JavaScript code.This course is authored by some of the best instructors in this field: About the AuthorChip Lambert has been developing websites and web applications for almost 20 years. He is currently a software engineer for Jenzabar Inc. and an online instructor for Bluefield College, teaching courses in web and mobile application development. Shriyans Bhatnagar uses Rx.js on a daily basis in work, mostly combining it with React and redux. Being a full stack developer, he often finds himself using Rx on Node too. He is extremely passionate about writing functional reactive code. He started out as a backend engineer writing Ruby applications using rails, but quickly moved on to using JavaScript for both the backend and frontend. Zsolt Nagy is a web development team lead, mentor, and software engineer living in Berlin, Germany. As a software engineer, Zsolt continuously challenges himself to stick to the highest possible standards when improving his own knowledge. He believes that the best way of learning is to create a meaningful product on the way."
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"Learning Path: Automation with Ansible, Puppet, and Salt" |
"It is no surprise that automation and orchestration make life very easy, be it a small organization or a large-scale industry that houses hundreds of servers. IT automation is essentially the ability to orchestrate and integrate tools, people, and processes through a certain workflow. Automation with Ansible, Puppet, and Salt is a Learning Path that looks at the most popular tools for automation, their advantages, and how you can use each of these tools to automate your IT infrastructure effectively. Packts Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it. In this one, we'll cover the why and how of Ansible, Puppet, and Salt, in a step-by-step, progressive manner. Initially, we focus on Ansible. You will learn how to manage environments and implement strategies in Ansible and be introduced to Ansible Galaxy and Tower, which are Ansible's enterprise tooling for supporting large-scale infrastructure. We then move on to learning Puppet. Puppet is a configuration management tool that allows you to automate all your IT configurations. Using Puppet you can control each Puppet agent in a network. You will learn how to do so by first understanding the Puppet ecosystem and then detailed topics such as configuration and management of Puppet servers, environments, module repositories, and reusable modules. With Salt too, we use a similar approach. We start from the basics, such as installing, configuring, deploying, and managing a web application to advanced concepts like Docker containers across multiple systems behind a HAProxy load balancer.By the end of this Learning Path, you will be able to build and manage your infrastructure and fully utilize its potential. This course is authored by some of the best instructors in this field: David Cohen worked as a system administrator, platform engineer, DevOps engineer, and software developer in everything from small businesses to growing companies (100+ employees) and large tech/engineering firms (10,000+ employees). He owns a YouTube channel, where he has helped tens of thousands of people learn the basics (and not-so-basics) of system administration, DevOps, and software engineering. Anirban Saha is an infrastructure professional with more than six and half years' experience in infrastructure management at various industries and organizations ranging from early startups to corporate environments. He has worked extensively with configuration management and automation tools including Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack, and Terraform, to name a few. Seth House is an active member of the Salt community for the past five years and has worked at SaltStack for four years. He wrote the salt-api and also contributed to many core parts of Salt. He has collaborated with the Salt community and started the Salt Formulas organization."
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"Learning Path: Web Development with PHP 7 and Laravel 5" |
"Are you a PHP developer who wants to learn the best PHP framework, Laravel? Do you want to migrate to PHP 7 for developing robust feature-rich web applications? If yes, this Learning Path is for you. Laravel is a web application framework with expressive and elegant syntax. Laravel attempts to take the pain out of development by easing tasks that are most commonly used in web projects. PHP 7 is based on the PHPNG, so the performance gains realized from PHP 7 are huge. Although Laravel 5 works well with the previous versions of PHP, the combination of PHP 7 and Laravel 5 can be used to create faster websites. Packts Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that video builds on the skills learned in the video before it. This Learning Path starts with an introduction to PHP 7 and then moves on to exploring its new and advanced features. You will also get acquainted with the basic and advanced object-oriented programming concepts and techniques. Next, you will learn how to install Laravel on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. You will then be introduced tothe directory structure of a Laravel application, as well as the third-party dependencies, packages, and installation with Composer. Moving ahead, you will learn about the Laravel MVC structure: routes, controllers, models, views, and templates. Finally, you will build a simple web application using the CRUD operations and basic validations. By the end of this Learning Path, you will be able to build your own applications using PHP 7 and Laravel. About the Authors: For this course, we have combined the best works of these esteemed authors: Budi Irawan is a software engineer, lecturer, and open source contributor. He has experience in PHP for more than 7 years in building small and enterprise web applications. Besides PHP, he also plays with JavaScript and Ruby. He loves to teach, contribute, and meet new people. In his leisure time, he usually plays sports and at times travelling too.Hiren Dave is a software engineer, blogger, and consultant with over 9 years of professional experience. He writes code in number of languages. He has a passion for developing web apps, mobile apps, writing books, and blog articles about programming. He has a solid experience of startups, as he manages products for few startups. He is also passionate about researching and learning new technologies and trends. He has also authored a book Instant Sencha Touch, published by Packt."
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"Learning Path: Magento: Master and Test Magento 2 with Ease" |
"Magento 2 is not just the next version of Magento 1, its a completely new framework. It introduces a bunch of new libraries and approaches, with more opportunities to implement the online channel functionality better. This Video Learning Path explains how the most important parts of the framework are implemented, how they work, and how they can be used.It intends to cover valuable information you need to know as a Magento developer. It explores module implementation and core functionality customization, demonstrating Magento 2 development patterns and approaches. This Video Learning Path is not just about functionality implementation, it shares the best practices for managing Magento 2 applications as a whole. We will move on to explaining how to get the value of automated tests provided by Magento out of the box and how to cover your implementation with an appropriate type of test, to ensure a high level of quality. Finally, we will see how to migrate from Magento 1 to Magento 2, covering the usage of code and data migration tools.By the end of this Video Learning Path,you will gain understanding and practical knowledge that will allow you to master the Magento 2 framework.For this course, we have combined the best works of this esteemed author:Sergii Ivashchenko has been working in the Magento team for more than 4 years. He took part in the development of both the Magento 1 and Magento 2 frameworks and participated in the Magento Testing Framework implementation. For several years, Sergii has been systemizing and sharing his knowledge of the framework and core modules by contributing to official and non-official Magento 2 documentation and development resources, talking on Magento events and meetups."
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"Learning Path: Linux: A to Z Linux Networking Concepts" |
"Linux can be configured as a network workstation, a DNS server, a mail server, a firewall, a gateway router, and many other things. Network administration is one of the main tasks of a Linux administrator. In this Video Learning Path, you will begin with configuring and deploying several network services including file, web, mail, and servers. You will then learn how to enable NAT on the router in order to allow Internet access from the network. Going ahead, you will learn to configure Samba to centralize authentication for your network service and Linux client to leverage it for authentication. Youll also set up SMTP and IMAP mail services, and enable spam filtering. Then well configure our own XMPP-based IM service, configure it to communicate with other XMPP services, and configure Pidgin as a client to utilize the service. Finally, you will have a network with a number of services running on it, and will implement monitoring in order to detect problems as they occur.By the end of this Video Learning Path, you will learn to build, maintain, and secure a computer network using Linux.For this course, we have combined the best works of this esteemed author:Gregory Boyce is a technologist with nearly 20 years' experience using and managing Linux systems. He has spent the last 15 years working at Akamai Technologies, where he has worked in roles ranging from network operations, internal IT, information security, software testing, and professional services. Currently, he heads up the Linux OS team that manages Akamai's custom Linux operating system, which runs on their massively distributed customer-facing network."
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"Learning Path: Elasticsearch and AngularJS: IntraWeb Search" |
"Always wanted to make your AngularJS app more scalable and fast? Thinking of ways to power insanely fast data discovery within your app? Think no more, for this Learning Path guides you how to integrate Elasticsearch - the world renowned scalable and fast open-source search server - with your AngularJS app. Elasticsearch is a search server that also doubles up as a NoSQL data store, and hence provides lightning-fast search functionality within a website. Moreover, you can rapidly scale up a website using Elasticsearch. It is also highly available, meaning that a website would almost never face any downtime or lags, when having an Elasticsearch backend; which is also attributed to its NoSQL nature. AngularJS is a web framework powered by Google, that has revolutionized web development over the past few years. With its advanced and unique 2-way data binding between the data and the UI, strong template-building solutions, code reuse features, allowing the creation of custom DOM elements whenever needed, AngularJS can indeed be said to be the framework of the future. Elasticsearch and AngularJS: IntraWeb Search is Packts Video Learning Path that is a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it. Firstly, we would be looking at getting started with AngularJS. We will be looking forward to developing a strong foundation in AngularJS by learning the basics, and then moving on to topics such as controllers, templates, routing, and services. Next, we would be studying about Elasticsearch right from the basics, so that our concepts are built well. Moving on, we would be learning about how to create queries to enable searching data in an Elasticsearch data store. Finally, we would be looking in detail at integrating Elasticsearch with an AngularJS application, and improving the search features by tweaking various configurations, so as to boost the overall efficiency and scalability. By the end of this course , you will have developed a strong foundation in Elasticsearch and understood the basics of AngularJS well enough to integrate Elasticsearch with an AngularJS application environment and improve its performance drastically. The goal of this course is to teach you to integrate Elasticsearch with an AngularJS-based app and improve the overall performance and scalability of your application. This course is authored by some of the best in the field. Daniel Beachis a search architect, specializing in client-side application development.He works at OpenSource Connections where he has built search applications for organizations ranging from publishers to government agencies. Mathieu Chauvincis a Managing Director at Red Ape Solutions. He has been involved in web technologies for over a decade, from Django, Node.js, Go, SQL, NoSQL, Mootools, and Angular 2. He has also studied in Karlsruhe University, Germany. He has authored several video courses, such as Learning JavaScript Promises and Introducing Ionic 2."
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