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Bluemix essentials

Updated! Featuring the new Bluemix unified user experience layout. New to cloud computing? If so, this is the right course for you. Get hands-on experience with IBM Bluemix, Cloud Foundry, and best practices for agile and test-driven development.

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4 hours

 

Bluemix, Cloud, Courses

Get started with API Connect

Build, manage, and secure your APIs and microservices by using IBM® API Connect™. Use API Connect to help you make your business services and data APIs available to internal, partner, and third-party developers.

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4 hours

 

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IBM Blockchain for developers

Learn about one of hottest new technologies. These introductory courses help developers to quickly understand IBM’s direction with blockchain technology and to give hands-on experience with a sample use case developing with chaincode.

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10 hours

 

Courses include videos, hands-on labs, and quizzes on tech that matters to you. Courses take 2 – 4 hours to complete, are available at no cost, and, in some cases, can lead to an IBM badge.

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Apply blockchain to a business network

What is blockchain? As a developer, you've heard about it, but now you need know more about blockchain, blockchain networks, and chaincode. The course includes a lab that demos how assets are transferred to several people/roles across a network.

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2 hours

 

Cloud, Courses

Apply continuous delivery to your apps with IBM DevOps Services

Embrace continuous delivery by using IBM Bluemix DevOps Services, which is software as a service (SaaS) on the cloud. Continuous delivery is a software development methodology in which teams produce valuable software in short iterations and ensure that the software can be released at any time.

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3 hours

 

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Bluemix essentials

Updated! Featuring the new Bluemix unified user experience layout. New to cloud computing? If so, this is the right course for you. Get hands-on experience with IBM Bluemix, Cloud Foundry, and best practices for agile and test-driven development.

Continue reading Bluemix essentials

4 hours

 

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Build your first chaincode

Learn how to develop applications with chaincode. Chaincode is code that is deployed into a network of Hyperledger fabric peer nodes that enables interaction with that network’s shared ledger.

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2 hours

 

Cloud, Courses

Create applications on IBM Cloud

Understand the benefits of IBM® Cloud (IBM® Bluemix® PaaS), which offers a seamless integration into public and private cloud environments. Better yet, this cloud environment is secure, scalable, and flexible.

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5 hours

 

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Create basic Python apps in IBM Bluemix

Explore the Python runtime in IBM Bluemix and learn how to create your first Python and Django (or Flask) application in the cloud that consumes Watson cognitive services.

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2 hours

 

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Create Python apps with IBM Watson to translate and analyze text

Refine the Python application that you built in the first course and add the Language Identification service, Watson Natural Language Classifier service and AlchemyLanguage APIs.

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3 hours

 

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Create Swift mobile apps with IBM Watson services

Recognize what's in a photo, analyze the intent of a statement, and convert text to speech by building three simple cognitive apps in IBM Bluemix and Swift.

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3 hours

 

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Discover, analyze, and visualize data with IBM BigInsights

Derive effective business insights from big data by getting an introduction to IBM BigInsights. You'll work with real data from a car rental business and learn to analyze and visualize that data in useful ways.

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3 hours

 

Courses, Java

Enhance applications by using data services

Find a data service to meet just about any requirement. For example, in IBM Bluemix, you can use a NoSQL database such as Cloudant or a time series database. Learn how you can store and retrieve a wide variety of data types such as JSON, full-text, and geospatial data.

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5 hours

 

Cloud, Courses

Enhance applications by using essential services

Improve the performance of your cloud apps by taking advantage of IBM Bluemix, which provides a productive and effective environment for developing and enhancing applications. Use services such as data caching, messaging, and Watson cognitive APIs to enhance your apps.

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4 hours

 

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Enhance Python applications for the cloud

Learn how to make your Python applications more consumable and secure by using REST APIs and a credential store.

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1 hour

 

Courses, Java

Enrich Java apps with cognitive services

Discover how your apps can translate text, analyze sentiment, and perform other cognitive services. Boost the power of your Java applications with IBM Watson cogntive services.

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2 hours

 

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Explore blockchain and the Hyperledger Fabric Project

Get more familiar with blockchain fabrics, the different types of fabrics, IBM’s work with the Hyperledger Project, and how blockchain technology can solve business problems.

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2 hours

 

Bluemix, Cloud, Courses

Get started with API Connect

Build, manage, and secure your APIs and microservices by using IBM® API Connect™. Use API Connect to help you make your business services and data APIs available to internal, partner, and third-party developers.

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4 hours

 

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A learning path guides you sequentially through related content to help you become proficient in a specific technology in the shortest time possible. You can complete all the content in a learning path or just what interests you. Learning paths can take 10 – 20 hours to complete, are available at no cost, and can lead to an IBM badge. Complete the whole path or part of the path on your schedule, whenever you’re ready.

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Cloud application developer certification preparation

Review key concepts to help prepare to pass the IBM Cloud Platform Application Development V1 exam. Gain experience with IBM Bluemix and learn how to build applications for the cloud that are scalable, reliable, and secure.

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21 hours

 

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Create Python apps with IBM Watson and IBM Bluemix

Get started with creating Python applications on IBM Bluemix, IBM's platform-as-a-service cloud environment. If you're an experienced Python developer but new to the cloud and cognitive services, this series of courses will quickly get you up to speed.

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6 hours

 

Learning paths

IBM Blockchain for developers

Learn about one of hottest new technologies. These introductory courses help developers to quickly understand IBM’s direction with blockchain technology and to give hands-on experience with a sample use case developing with chaincode.

Continue reading IBM Blockchain for developers

10 hours

 

Java, Learning paths

Optimize Java apps on IBM Cloud

Understand the benefits of developing, testing, and maintaining Java applications in IBM Bluemix (IBM Cloud). Learn to prepare and migrate Java apps to the cloud and how you can enhance those apps by adding data and cognitive (Watson) services.

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15 hours