Software Engineering Tools and Practices

Learn the essentials to quickly master automation with Ansible! While this course is designed for learners with limited coding experience, it is helpful (though not required!) to have familiarity with Linux or Unix-like operating systems, the command line interface, and the basics of shell scripting. To allow for a truly hands-on, self-paced learning experience, this course is video-free. Assignments contain short explanations with images and runnable code examples with suggested edits to explore code examples further, building a deeper understanding by doing. You'll benefit from instant feedback from a variety of assessment items along the way, gently progressing from quick understanding checks (multiple choice, fill in the blank, and un-scrambling code blocks) to small, approachable coding exercises that take minutes instead of hours. The modules in this course cover an introduction to Ansible, automations, and connecting to web-based systems.

Code and run software tests websites without installing anything! This course is designed for learners who have some experience with JavaScript but a novice to software testing. The modules in this course covers the fundamentals of testing with Jest; popular testing paradigms like test-driven development, behavior-driven development, user accepting testing, etc.; and commonly used tools like JMeter, Postman, and Cucumber. To allow for a truly hands-on, self-paced learning experience, this course is video-free. Assignments contain short explanations with images and runnable code examples with suggested edits to explore code examples further, building a deeper understanding by doing. You’ll benefit from instant feedback from a variety of assessment items along the way, gently progressing from quick understanding checks (multiple choice, fill in the blank, and un-scrambling code blocks) to slowly building features, resulting in large coding projects at the end of the course. Course Learning Objectives: Write unit tests with Jest Develop software using test-driven development Test APIs with Postman Test software with popular tools such as JMeter, Selenium, and Cucumber

Learn how to access and create web APIs. This course is designed for learners who have experience with JavaScript. The modules in this course cover accessing web APIs and creating simple web servers. To allow for a truly hands-on, self-paced learning experience, this course is video-free. Assignments contain short explanations with images and runnable code examples with suggested edits to explore code examples further, building a deeper understanding by doing. You’ll benefit from instant feedback from a variety of assessment items along the way, gently progressing from quick understanding checks (multiple choice, fill in the blank, and un-scrambling code blocks) to slowly building features, resulting in large coding projects at the end of the course. Course Learning Objectives: API Protocols HTTP Servers Authentication

This course is designed as an intermediate introduction to CI/CD. You will learn about the basics of automating processes and version control. This course uses GitHub, and you will need to have an account with them. Information is provided how to do this. Learners also use CI/CD to build, test, and check the quality of their code. The course ends with deployment, secrets, and a capstone.

This course is designed for learners who want to gain practical experience with RESTful MVC architecture. Learn how to organize server-side code based on models, views, and controllers. You will then learn about the REST standards that allow clients are servers to communicate in a safe and reliable manner.