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[New] 2021 Comprehensive Python Programming Masterclass A-Z™

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[New] 2021 Comprehensive Python Programming Masterclass A-Z™
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Language: English | Size: 6.71 GB | Duration: 19h 27m



What you'll learn
Go from absolute beginner to become a confident Python Programmer
Be grounded in the fundamental of Python programming to help you go from zero to hero
Go deeper to understand complex topics in Python
Learn Python programming through several exercises and solutions with the source codes
Acquire the required Python knowledge you will need to go for Data Science, Machine learning, Ai and Deep learning
Learn to use Python Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in your program
Learn to use Python GUI and create your own GUI projects
Learn to to create your own Python applications.
Learn Python from ardent Python programmer.

Requirements
No experience required - I will teach you from scratch
You only need a computer internet access

Description
Are you trying to learn Python programming but it seems you are afraid because you think it will be too difficult to understand? Or it may be you are moving from another programming language to Python and want to know it very fast. If yes, don't look further, this Python course is for you.

In this Python course, we will start from the bottom and build up. Anything topic that will hinder you from understanding the next concepts is first treated before the complex concepts. Everything is broken down into simple steps to ensure that you can easily master the Python language even if you have never coded before. After about 100 days of coding, you should be well-grounded in Python with this course as a beginner.

This course runs on the shoulders of challenges, solutions, and source code. Challenges are carefully crafted the illustrate most concepts. It is believed, the more we ask, the more we know. The very reason why most concepts are delivered in the form of challenges and solutions.

WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?

√ This course is for you if you want to learn python for the first time or you want to advance your understanding of Python programming.

√ This course is for you if you are coming from other programming languages and want to learn Python fast and know it really well.

√ This course is for you if you are tired of Python courses that are too brief, too simple, or too complicated.

√ This course is for you if you want to build real-world applications using Python.

√ This course is for you if you have to get the prerequisite knowledge to understanding Data Science and Machine Learning using Python.

√ This course is for you if you want to master the in-and-out of Python.

√ This course is for you if you want to learn Python by doing exciting real-life challenges that will distinguish you from the crowd.

√ This course is for you if plan to pass a Python Interview soon.


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Selenium Java : Beginner to Advanced [Live Project]

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Selenium Java : Beginner to Advanced [Live Project]
Genre: eLearning | MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | VTT | Size: 90.7 GB | Duration: 171h 56m

Includes Selenium 4, and 217 in-depth organized sessions (136+ hours), Real time Live Project and Interview Questions.


What you'll learn
Selenium,Core Java, Frameworks, Selenium Live Project and so on


Description
In detailed, easy, step by step, practical, well defined and real time video tutorials on Selenium Java

Not required to have any prior Java programming knowledge, as all the prerequisites such as Java are explained in detail before covering Selenium topics

Interview Questions and Answers (Recorded Videos and Notes)

Different topics covered in this course include: (Includes Videos and Notes for every topic listed below)

Introduction

Firebug/Firepath Alternatives

Selenium IDE

Locators

XPath Expressions

CSS Selectors

Others

Core Java for Selenium

Selenium WebDriver

Handling Multiple Windows

Waiting Mechanism

Handling Frames

Handling Lightbox

Selenium & Different Browsers

Selenium 3

Framework Concepts - Properties Files

Framework Concepts - POI API

Framework Concepts - Log4j

Framework Concepts - TestNG

Framework Concepts - Maven

Framework Concepts - Extent Reports

Framework Concepts - Taking Screenshots

Framework Concepts - ANT

Data Driven Framework

Cucumber and BDD

Page Object Model and Page Factory

Jenkins

Git

GitHub

WebDriverManager

Live Project (Real time)

AutoIt

Sikuli

Robot Class

Actions Class

DOM

JavaScript

JavaScriptExecutor

Java OOPS Concepts

Handling XML Files

Handling JSON Files

Database Testing using Selenium

Browser Configurations - Firefox, Chrome & IE

Handling Calendar

Handling WebTables

Select Class

Handling Random Activities

Handling Cookies

Downloading Files

Password Encryption and Decryption

WebDriver Listeners

TestNG Listeners

StaleElementReferenceException

And many more

Selenium Grid

Interview Questions and Answers

Along with videos, notes having the session details and links to download the code/frameworks/other files are provided

Huge list of real time and practical examples are provided throughout the sessions

Installation/configurations of various software are also explained in detailed in this course

After watching all the videos, you will be able to answer most of the interview questions, as all the topics are covered from basic to advanced level

Framework concepts are explained before showing how to build different frameworks

Sessions covering the development of different frameworks are also covered in detailed


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Udemy Materials and Finishes in Interior Design TUTORiAL-SOFTiMAGE

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Linkedin Learning Test Automation with Python 5 Web Browser Automation with Selenium-XQZT

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Udemy Python Projects TUTORiAL-SOFTiMAGE

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Linkedin Learning Learning Minitab-XQZT

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Ad World Schedule - Ad World Conference 2021

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Ad World Schedule - Ad World Conference 2021 | 8.67 GB
Ad World is one of the largest online events for digital marketers in the world.

For three days, Ad World will stream 10+ Digital Advertising Tracks, consisting of hyper-focused speeches, panels and live Q&A sessions to help take your business to the next level. Over 50,000+ of the world's brightest minds in advertising will collide to learn, share secrets and connect online.

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Linkedin Learning Excel Power QueryoaGet and Transform UPDATE 20210527-XQZT

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Udemy Java Programming Language for Beginners TUTORiAL-SOFTiMAGE

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TTC - Understanding and Applying Self-Defense Strategies

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TTC - Understanding and Applying Self-Defense Strategies
Duration: 13h 19m | Video: .MP4 1280x720, 30 fps(r) | Audio: AAC, 48000 Hz, 2ch | Size: 11.2 GB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English

Most of us don't think about self-defense until it's too late, perhaps assuming we will be able to muddle through a defense of ourselves if the need ever arose-or perhaps believing self-defense is impossible without years of intricate drills and many hours of physical training. The truth, however, is that anyone, regardless of age, size, or background, can learn to improve their safety, avoid or de-escalate threatening situations, or even escape a conflict altogether.

Understanding and Applying Self-Defense Strategies is a comprehensive introduction to self-defense, and will change the way you look at the world and think about yourself. Taught by acclaimed self-defense instructor, Krav Maga expert, and psychotherapist Dr. Tammy Yard-McCracken, these 24 interactive lessons will give you an arsenal of physical and mental strategies to prepare you to defend yourself and your loved ones.

Traditional martial arts are about mastering techniques and demonstrating specific moves. It can take years of practice to become a master of Kung Fu or Tae Kwon Do, but self-defense is different. In fact, people with years of martial arts training often freeze in a real-world defense situation because they haven't prepared their mind for conflicts where rules don't apply and the quickest, most adaptable, and most determined person often has the upper hand.

At its most basic, self-defense is about understanding violence and using skills to stay safe in a variety of situations. Elements of good self-defense include:

Getting to know the strengths and weaknesses of the body, or the "meat puzzle";
Putting yourself inside the mind of potential predators-and how to avoid them;
Picking up nonverbal cues to what a potential threat may be thinking;
Taking note of "natural lines of drift," exit points, and other environmental opportunities at your disposal;
De-escalating situations before they rise to the level of violence; and
Using any means necessary to defeat the threat and get away.

Dr. Yard-McCracken uses four fundamentals of learning to change the way you act and think: play (having fun), teaching (conveying information), training (practicing moves), and operant conditioning (getting yourself "tactical ready"). As you will learn in Understanding and Applying Self-Defense Strategies, you don't need years of practice to solve the "meat puzzle." Thanks to Dr. Yard-McCracken's guidance, whether you go through these lessons by yourself or with a partner, you will come away empowered with new skills and self-awareness.

Wake Up the Human Animal Within As members of civilized society, we live most of our lives in terms of the social contract. We try hard to respect rules of civility, decency, fairness, and politeness. But deep within us as human beings lies another self: an apex predator at the top of the food chain. True, we're not capable of speeding across a savannah to sink our teeth into a hapless gazelle, but we have cunning and reason and creativity. And it is these skills that will help us defend ourselves in a conflict.

Dr. Yard-McCracken guides you into waking up the animal within us-thinking differently, like a predator, so that you will be able to recognize dangerous situations for what they are and do what is necessary to escape a conflict. This process starts with yourself, by getting to know your body and how it responds to stressful situations. Through an abundance of physical exercises, activities, demonstrations, and more, Dr. Yard-McCracken teaches you about your body and how to engage it in a conflict. Among other things, you will learn about:

Tactical breathing
Fighting stances
Kicks and punches, including using knees and elbows
Joint locks
On-the-ground grappling
Non-traditional fighting maneuvers

Find out how to build a kinetic chain, or use momentum to build power. Explore the relationship between bone structure and impact. Learn about "golden moves," the ideal actions that worsen your opponent's position and cause the most damage while improving your own position and minimizing damage to yourself.

Beyond the physical, however, mental preparation is equally important. Our body has a natural Survival Stress Response, or SSR, and when the SSR kicks in, the "you" in the midst of a conflict is not the "you" that is going about your everyday life. A flood of hormones will cloud your thinking. Primal "monkey" and "lizard" brain impulses try to take over. And, worst of all, you may get caught in the freeze phase of your freeze-fight-flight response.

Dr. Yard-McCracken helps you understand the process of violence and your body's physical and mental response to danger so that if you are ever in a threatening situation, you can remain level-headed, quick, agile, and smart.

Become a Better Observer of People around You Self-defense is also about understanding the world around you-both the threat you are facing and the environment where the conflict takes place. Much of this course, therefore, teaches you how to widen your "affordances" so that you see beyond the surface and look at the world through a different lens. Learn to observe the people you encounter in new ways. Where is the center of balance for the person in front of you? What are this person's weak lines and vulnerabilities? How would you defeat them if they attacked you?

Dr. Yard-McCracken takes you inside the mind of the predators out there. Asocial predators may want something from you, such as your money, or they may simply enjoy the process of doing harm. By going inside the mind of such people, you'll learn to understand their motivations, which will in turn help you spot threats while there is still time to escape. Meanwhile, social predators have their own motivations-including tribal pack behavior, the emotions surrounding betrayal and vengeance, and more.

Once you know how predators think, you can become much better at spotting potential threats in the world: Learn to evaluate locations such as bars, empty corridors, elevators, parking lots. You'll learn how to spot situations that are escalating-raised voices, threatening language, and a variety of nonverbal communications-and how to stay in control of a situation so that you can escape these threats or be ready for the confrontation to come.

Make the Most of Your Environment Getting yourself tactical ready and learning to read potential threats are two important pillars for self-defense. The third pillar is the environment. Avoiding a late-night bar full of angry drunks or an unlit parking lot may be common sense, but what about the elevator ride up to your hotel room? Or the short walk from a parking lot to a townhouse?

Sometimes higher-risk locations can't be avoided, so self-defense is about knowing where you are and what tools you have at your disposal. For example, military professionals talk about "natural lines of drift"-the most likely paths a person might take to get from A to B. What are the natural lines of drift between you and the exit? If someone is after you, which path are they most likely to take?

If a conflict can't be avoided, waking up the inner animal means the fight doesn't have to be fair, and it probably shouldn't be. The social contract may condition you to be polite, but staying alive and safe means doing what you have to. Look around: What objects can you use as weapons? Can anything be used to stab? Anything that can cause blunt-force trauma? What can you use to get away?

When you complete this course, you will not walk through the world the same way. You will notice other people and their behavior, you will be more aware of your environment, and you will recognize your own body's strengths and limitations. Ultimately, this course is about empowerment. Self-defense training is not simply about seeing a world full of threats, but about becoming self-aware, and becoming a harder target. Understanding and Applying Self-Defense Strategies will prepare you to face whatever is out there-and to live a fuller, more confident life.

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TTC - The Skeptic's Guide to Health, Medicine, and the Media

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TTC - The Skeptic's Guide to Health, Medicine, and the Media
Duration: 12h 32m | Video: .MP4 1280x720, 30 fps(r) | Audio: AAC, 48000 Hz, 2ch | Size: 10.5 GB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English

If you've ever sneezed while driving your car, did you immediately think, "Cars Cause the Common Cold!"? No, of course not. A headline like that wouldn't make any sense. And yet, some of the sources we rely on for health and medical news are not much better. Many media outlets are perfectly happy to grab us with a wacky headline or an article that reflects none of the nuance of the study on which it's based-as long as we buy the magazine or click through to the article. And we do. We take the bait. With 50,000 scientific studies published each week in English, many media outlets don't put in the time and effort to adequately decipher and report on even a tiny fraction of those studies. But they publish news about them, anyway.

As consumers of medical news, how can we know whether the article we just read is based on solid science or trash?

We know we can't believe every article we read. If we did, we'd conclude that everything causes cancer; any non-organic food will cause our death; we should never eat fats or carbohydrates; and high-dose supplements of every vitamin will save our lives or, depending on the specific article, kill us.

Professor Roy Benaroch of Emory University School of Medicine provides just the direction we need to answer important questions, look beyond media hype, and more in The Skeptic's Guide to Health, Medicine, and the Media. In 24 fascinating lectures that address the most important health issues of our day, Dr. Benaroch shows us how to recognize the good reporting that provides balanced, accurate, and well-sourced information and the bad reporting that is incomplete at best and purposely misleading at worst. You'll learn how to ask the questions that take you past the headlines and beyond the way health news is typically reported.

Would You Believe?

Dr. Benaroch provides numerous examples of headlines you wouldn't fall for-or would you? While some headlines are published on obscure internet sites, others are published in some of the largest, most-trusted papers in the country. Every day, people take the bait to read about:

"Breatharian Couple Survives on the Universe's Energy Instead of Food." Just a little bit of digging reveals that the couple actually does eat food. Of course, they do.
"Traces of Controversial Herbicide Are Found in Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream." The article itself states that a typical child would need to consume 145,000 eight-ounce servings a day to reach the federal safety limit of the chemical in question. But the headline made for great "clickbait" since it used the successful technique of pairing a random fact with a recognizable brand name.
"The Soothing Benefit of Acupuncture for Babies." The article states the goal of the study was to use acupuncture to soothe babies and shorten their crying spells-and then makes it clear that the acupuncture didn't actually work. Yet, you would never know this from the headline.
Addressing the Top Medical Controversies of the Day

In providing samples of both good and bad medical journalism, The Skeptic's Guide addresses both significant medical topics and smaller, everyday questions like, "Should I floss?" Some of the major issues and subjects you will look at include:

Cardiovascular health and the new blood pressure guidelines,
Cancer screenings and treatment,
The opioid crisis,
The obesity epidemic,
The price of prescription medication,
The stigma of mental health, and more.
To better understand these issues in all their complexity, you'll go behind the headlines to learn more about the subjects themselves, as well as the media's role in addressing them.

Building Your Skeptic's Toolkit

With so many false or misleading sources out there, it can be natural for readers to become cynical about medical reporting and headline news. However, as Dr. Benaroch points out, there's a difference between being a cynic and being a skeptic. Becoming a cynic and believing nothing of what you read would be just as ineffective as being gullible and believing everything. There is good health-related information out there, and The Skeptic's Guide to Health, Medicine, and Media will teach you how to access it. You'll learn six specific questions to ask yourself as you read, all of which begin with the letter "s" for ease of remembering. These questions form the basis of your "Skeptic's Toolkit," the lens through which you can determine the value of any article. They are:

Source. What's the source of the article and is it credible for medical information? Is the article based on a study from a reputable university or research institute? Or is it based on anecdotal information from a non-scientist? You might be interested in reading a first-person account about someone whose blood pressure improved when she started drinking tea-but you wouldn't want to base your own medical decisions on it.
Strength. Is the evidence presented strong enough to be valuable? Stories that review large clinical trials are much stronger than stories about small pilot studies. Dr. Benaroch explains why the strongest studies are the gold standard double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled experiments with a large number of participants.
Salesmanship. Is the article trying to sell me something or promote a particular brand? Many media accounts are repackaged press releases whose purpose is to sell a product. That doesn't mean the story is false, but it does mean you're probably not getting a balanced viewpoint. And salesmanship works-as evidenced by, among other examples, the $1.2-billion fish oil supplement industry in the United States that is going strong despite 15 years of research that reveals no actual health benefits.
Salience. Is this study about people like me, and are the factors they're measuring in the study important to me? If the article refers to a study about children, you can't assume the results hold true for adults. As one example, Dr. Benaroch highlights an article claiming to show that cell phone exposure increases the risk of cancer. But actually, the experiment was conducted on rats.
Sides of the Scale. Does the news report try to present a viewpoint from scientists not directly involved in the study, or from people with appropriate expertise who can offer a balanced viewpoint? The article should quote additional experts in the field, not just the study authors. And, if there are legitimate disagreements about the study, those should be mentioned, too. But don't fall for a false equivalence in which invalid or untrue assertions are given equal weight to established scientific consensus.
Sensible. Is the story itself sensible, making sense and fitting in with what we already know? It doesn't matter how many times you sneeze while driving, we know that cars do not cause the common cold-no matter how nice the alliteration sounds. Exaggerations in headlines should also send up a red flag. "Miracle cures" and "magic bullet" might get our attention, but those descriptions almost always point to inflated or false claims.
With Dr. Benaroch's guidance, you'll know how to find information you can truly rely on. And you'll know which articles to put straight in the trash.

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