Design is full of unspoken rules and obscure theories that, when applied, can dramatically improve one's own design. For the first time, we are documenting them all in one place. Universal Principles of Design, based on William Lidwell's award-wining books, illustrates one design principle, ranging from the tried and true (the 80/20 rule) to concepts that you may not have ever heard in a design context (Ockham's razor or crowd intelligence.) These principles are critical to successful design-no matter what the discipline. Anyone who creates, designs, engineers, or illustrates will learn invaluable lessons that can take their work to the next level.

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Simply English. A simple, elegant approach to English
What you'll learn

To speak English like an American and write like the British
Improve your pronunciation via a variety of visual and audio speech exercises
Build your vocabulary and English expressions
Bridge the gap between your reading ability and your comprehension of what you read
Improved grammar
Improved comprehension
Improved speaking and reading

Requirements

An elementary or an upper elementary (A1-A2) level of English
Perseverance
Willingness to practise what they learn

Description

This course is an elementary level English course (A1-A2). The student understands basic phrases and instructions. He/she can interact in a very simple way and uses incomplete sentences, without real grammatical content. He/she may be able to participate in a dialogue giving personal information but in a limited way using minimal vocabulary.

This course is designed to improve your English at its foundation. You will have a basic understanding of English and be able to speak it immediately. You will be able to introduce yourself in various social interactions. Use the verb 'to be' correctly in positive, negative and question sentences. Understanding when to use the verb 'to be'. Talk about yourself and give personal information.

Using the WH-question words correctly and immediately employ them in your language. Express yourself and ask the proper questions to get the answers you need.

You will learn:

How to Meet and Greet

Greetings and Farewells

Subject Pronouns

How to Use the Verb 'To Be' Properly

How to Talk About Jobs, Countries

How to Use Wh Questions (What, Where, Who, When)

And much more!

This course is taught using the four pillars of learning; both active parts of speaking and writing and both passive parts of reading and listening. You will acquire new vocabulary from real life scenarios and while reading excerpts of paragraphs and poems written by well-known authors.

The course will be paired with a PDF leaflet that you can download and print which will follow the order of each section and lecture offering you an active part in your learning.

This course also includes:

Clear lessons that are built upon each other

Skits that subtly foreshadow upcoming lessons

Integrative approach to English expressions, idioms, similes and metaphors

Many PDF worksheets that mirror each part of the lessons

Original flashcards to develop vocabulary

Teacher that speaks American English

About your teacher

Native speaker from Canada

Taught ESL to adults and children for 5 years, privately and in a classroom

fluent in English and French

taught in a Montessori preschool

homeschooled my children for 14 years employing the Waldorf pedagogy

As the name intends, Simply English is a course designed for A1 students who desire a simple approach to English. Through the 4 language pillars of speaking, reading, writing and listening, each lesson provides a weave of active and passive activities. Simply English employs many images to further the understanding of the lesson, as well as unique and engaging video skits. Which add a playful appeal to the overall learning experience.

Who is the target audience?

Students who desire to improve their English at its foundation
Students who are seeking to have a basic understanding of English and be able to speak it immediately
People who have tried to learn English with no significant advancement
Desire a natural approach to learning

Build 10 Games. Learn Fractal Basics, Object Pooling, Meshes, Rendering, Hexagonal Maps, Noise Simulation, Voxel Grids.

What you'll learn

Become excellent at using the Unity game engine.
Gain an excellent general knowledge of video game design.
Implement sound effects, background music, and particle effects
Build a solid foundation for game design and game development that will help you build your own games.
Navigate the Unity Engine and discover unique features
Become familiar with the interface and discover useful shortcuts and functionalities that can save them time.

Requirements

Must have a Mac or PC for Unity game development
No prior coding experience required or experience in Unity
Unity 5 Game Engine(Free Version)
In this course, we will walk you through from the beginning. From installing Unity on your computer to making complex games in Unity
Regular internet access

Description

If you are a Game geek and in case you ever tried your hand towards computer gaming, you must be aware of the Unity software. Regardless the 2D or 3D Unity game development you want to make, Unity is the common platform that most of the games in the market are created. With this application, you can create a full length working two-dimensional and three-dimensional games just as you witnesses everywhere.

This 2D & 3D Unity game development course is focused towards giving the understanding of the Unity 5 version and unity game development teach you how you can make use of the software in creating traditional two-dimensional games and breathtaking three-dimensional games. We will look into various parts of the software which will directly deal with both flavors of the game. We start the lectures from the scratch as beginners can understand the complex topics covered in the further lectures and we also have advanced lectures such as scripting and 3D gaming essential elements which will help intermediate and advanced level students to learn deeper concepts about Unity 5.

A common misconception these days is to leave the traditional two-dimensional gaming and start working on three-dimensional gaming from the day one, which can potentially dent a gamers career. We introduced 2D gaming in this course as even today, it is widely used and highly successive games of all kinds. 3D gaming is essentially worked only by High-end studios and massive gaming companies as EA. Though the spectrum is large, on a global scale the number of companies that are totally involved in 3D gaming is relatively lesser when compared to the gaming companies working on 2D gaming. The numerous numbers of games we find today on Android and iPhone are dominated by the two-dimensional gaming examples. Every day there are a huge number of gaming companies coming into the global market who are trying their hand at the 2D games through the mobile platform. This is one of the strongest rationales that we included the 2D gaming in this course.

On the other hand, three-dimensional games are hitting the market like never before. In the recent years, 3D games revolutionized the way we perceived gaming experience from what we have seen a few years ago. Thanks to the increasing capacity of the hardware equipment and latest technology. Very soon, 3D gaming will set up into a multitude of avenues such as Holograms, Virtual reality, Sensor-driven gaming and much more.

Skills You will Master:

UNITY, Game Development, Gem Collector Game, BreakOut Game, Flappy Chopper Game, Breakout Game, Pipe Runner Game, Box Sprint Game, Maze Games, Unity GUI, Game Physics, Inertia, Gravity, Torque, Unity 3D, Fractal Basics, Object Pooling, frame rate counter, Bezier Curves And Lines, Meshes, Rendering, Creating Hexagonal Maps, Simulation Noise, Procedural Noise, Noise Derivatives, Simplex Noise, Marching Squares, Voxel Grids, Role Playing Game(RPG), 3D Integration, Level Design, Joyride Clone, Tower Defense Game

Who is the target audience?

Beginners with no coding experience or Unity experience
Game developers who want to learn Unity
Experienced Game Developers
People interested in developing quality 2D and 3D games either professionally or as a hobby.
Developers who want to re-skill across to game development.
Anyone Who Wants To Learn Game Development
Multimedia Professional trying to learn code and enter gaming
Programmers who are interested in joining game development Industry

Rhino is a 3D modeling powerhouse, used to design and engineer products ranging from toy robots to architecture, automobiles, and full-sized aircraft. Learn the essentials you need to build your own production-ready 3D models, characters, and prototypes with Rhino 6. This course follows up on instructor Dave Schultze's quick start guide. It starts with tips for navigating the interface and setting up a Rhino workflow that's efficient and fast. Dave then shows how to use Rhino's primary entities to draw 2D lines, shapes, and curves and model 3D objects. Plus, learn how to edit 2D and 3D geometry and make basic transformations such as scaling, lofting, and sweeping.

Topics include:

Customizing the Rhino UI
Using the Properties panel
Selecting objects
Transforming objects
Drawing 3D geometry
Modeling 3D objects with basic surfaces

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Create CoderSwag app in Kotlin

In this course, we'll teach you everything you need to know to get started with List and Recycler Views in Android. We'll teach you the platform and the underlying coding principles of Android. We believe in building engineers and not copy-and-paste students.

This course gives you a comprehensive overview of List and Recycler Views

What You Will Learn

Learn to create CoderSwag app
Make use of ListView and Custom List Adapter

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A stepping stone to building applications and making your vision a reality with smooth UI animations

This practical hands-on course will get you started working with Vue right from the get-go. Then you'll explore different Vue essentials with practical examples, where you'll learn about powerful templates and event handling. Next, you'll discover Vue's amazing features and add transitions and animations smoothly to your application. Also, you'll learn to select the best tool to maintain your apps. Finally, you'll build an application by applying all the features you've learned, bootstrap a project, and set up web pack configurations.

This course will take you through essential patterns and concepts you'll need to develop a Vue.js application. You'll learn how to respond to user actions with event handling, explore Vue's features, and add awesome transitions and animations to your applications. At the same time, we walk you through Vue components. You'll learn how to respond to user actions with event handling and select the right tools to maintain your apps.

Style and Approach

This course adopts a completely practical approach where you will get started working with Vue from the get-go. Then, you'll explore different Vue essentials with practical examples where you'll learn about powerful templates and event handling. Next, you'll discover amazing Vue features and add transitions and animations smoothly to your application. Also, you'll learn to select the best tool to maintain your app. Finally, you'll build an application by applying all the features you've learned, bootstrap a project, and set up web pack configurations.

What You Will Learn

Explore Vue essentials with practical examples
Dig into powerful templates and explore interpolations, directives, and shorthand
Learn how to respond to user actions with event handling
Start using Vue features by creating smooth transitions and animations for your app
Handle client-side routing for SPAs with Vue
Set up server-side rendering in Node.js
Maintain your application by selecting the most appropriate and best tool

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Explore how to use JavaScript to draw on HTML5 element - Practice exercise for JavaScript

Course helps you learn more about JavaScript by doing, See how you can apply JavaScript to connect to your HTML5 canvas element, listen for event like mouse down on the canvas element and more. Draw lines, change their colors, change the width of the line being draw, save your work within this mini web application. The scope of this course is to help you learn JavaScript, focused on applying code logic and building functioning code from scratch to make something with code from start to finish. Perfect course for beginners to learn JavaScript!!! Step by step learning with all steps included. Fun and exciting way to learn and practice JavaScript. by applying what is presented in the lessons and building your own version of the applications. Make it even better, style it and try out JavaScript. Beginner JavaScript knowledge is required as the course covers only JavaScript relevant to the building of the countdown timer. Also, HTML and CSS knowledge is essential as the scope of this course is all JavaScript-focused. Start building your own version of the countdown timer today!

Style and Approach

JavaScript Practice Exercise - Learn to use JavaScript and create an interactive mouse drawing application from scratch. Use JavaScript to draw on HTML5 Canvas element.

What You Will Learn

Setup your HTML and CSS
Connect to canvas element and draw
Setup you defaults for drawing
Add event listeners for user interaction
Build the drawing functions
Save your work to an image element
Save your work triggering a on saving creating a dynamic JavaScript element

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Angular was designed by Google to address challenges programmers face building complex, single-page applications. This JavaScript framework takes care of the back end so you can take care of the client side. Angular Essential Training introduces you to the essentials of this "superheroic" framework, including powerful features such as rich templates, change detection, user interactions, two-way data binding, comprehensive routing, and dependency injection.

Justin Schwartzenberger steps through the framework one feature at a time, focusing on the component-based architecture of Angular. Learn what Angular is and what it can do, as Justin builds a full-featured web app from start to finish. After mastering the essentials, you can tackle the other project-based courses in our library and create your own Angular app.

Topics include:

What is Angular?
Setting up an Angular template
Creating a component
Binding events and properties
Getting data to components
Using directives and pipes
Creating Angular forms
Validating form data
Understanding dependency injection
Providing services
Making HTTP calls
Routing

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Learn to build resilient and robust AWS Cloud environments

AWS is currently the most popular and efficient Cloud platform. Administering and deploying your applications on AWS makes them flexible and resilient.

We'll show you all the options you need on AWS, from running your app on EC2, using auto-scaling, Dockerizing your app, and running serverless. You'll learn to plan and implement the platform architecture and also include scaling to serve millions of users in high concurrency on AWS. You'll earn to install your app, deploy it, monitor its key metrics, and scale it accordingly. In short, you'll learn to build highly scalable web environments on AWS.

By the end of this course, you will have learned to make the most of AWS services, resulting in the faster deployment of your applications on a fault-tolerant platform.

Style and Approach

This course is an example-driven tutorial that teaches you how to build, deploy, manage, and operate highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant system on AWS.

What You Will Learn

Deploy your first app on an EC2 instance, monitor it via CloudWatch, and use the ELB to add new instances.
Create an application database on Relational Database Service.
Architect and manage your app optimally at scale using AWS
Automatically add and remove an instance of EC2 from the load balance based on system metrics using the Auto Scaling Mechanism.
Apply AWS patterns for high availability and scaling in both serverless and server-based applications, along with approaches for the frontend, middle, and database application tiers.
Explore high availability features in AWS to keep your application alive and sleep better.
Build a cookbook for application deployment in AWS.

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People are the weakest link in IT security and having an effective information security awareness training program can help reduce many of the associated risks. This course will teach you how to build your own program from start to finish.

Did you know that the biggest threat to an organization is its own employees? Have you tried phishing simulations or basic information security awareness training lectures at your organization but feel like something is missing? In this course, Building and Implementing a Security Awareness Training Program, you will learn everything required to setup a program from scratch that makes sense for your organization's unique needs. First, you will learn the critical elements of any security awareness training program that must be in place before you even think about sending that first phishing simulation email. Next, you will learn how to properly scope and develop security awareness and training material that is razor-sharp focused and can be presented in a way that will convince your leadership to give you a healthy budget. Finally, you will learn how to deal with many common problems that plague security awareness training programs by using a number of communication techniques and ensuring that the right performance metrics are in place that will prove your program is winning. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge required to step into any organization and develop an information security awareness training program that will inspire your organization to be more security minded in a manner that doesn't waste everyone's time.

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Creating diagrams can be tedious work. Visio-a popular diagramming app from Microsoft-boasts functionality that can help professionals in a variety of industries design and share diagrams at a faster rate. In this course, David Rivers helps you master the intricacies of this powerful tool, whether you're using Visio to create an org chart, map out a network, or draw a floor plan. David helps to acquaint you with the user interface and shows how to create and connect diagrams, add objects, and format shapes, images, text, and more. To wrap up the course, he covers ways to publish and share your diagrams, including how to publish diagrams to PDF and share diagrams using the cloud.

Topics include:

Opening files and adjusting the Visio interface
Connecting shapes manually
Adding and arranging SmartShapes
Adding text, graphics, and more
Formatting text and shapes
Applying themes to change the look of a drawing
Inserting callouts
Publishing diagrams
Sharing diagrams using cloud options

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Step by Step Report Registration Steps in Oracle Apps R12 to Easy Navigation

Oracle Applications is a tightly-integrated family of application products that share a common look and feel. Using the menus and windows of Oracle Applications, you have access to all the functions you need to manage your business information.

Oracle Applications is highly responsive to users, supporting a multi-window graphical user interface (GUI) that provides you with full point-and-click capability. You can use your mouse or keyboard to operate graphical controls such as pull-down menus, buttons, pop lists, and check boxes. In addition, Oracle Applications offers many other features such as field-to-field validation and list of values to help you simplify data entry and maintain the integrity of the data you enter.

The best way to familiarize yourself with the common look and feel of Oracle Applications products is to log in and use the products. This chapter describes how to get started with Oracle Applications and provides you with the basic information you need to explore Oracle Applications in greater depth.

FEATURES

Learn how to use the system quickly
Oracle Applications uses familiar and easy-to-use menus so you, your staff, and your new employees can be productive after a few minutes of coaching from a colleague.

Be productive even if you are a novice user
A simple, intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) lets you use all of the power of Oracle Applications.

Increase your productivity as a power user. When you become familiar with Oracle Applications, you can use shortcuts in the graphical user interface to quickly navigate and work with multiple windows at once.
Get help when you need it
Context-sensitive online help is always available whenever you need assistance.

Secure your application data from unauthorized access
You can control access to your application data and customize the windows available for each user based on that user's level of authority.