Software Engineering Courses and Certifications

NDC Conferences

How Simple Is "As Simple As Possible?" - A Guide to Software Engineering Simplicity

Explore practical strategies for identifying essential software patterns, tools, and abstractions while learning when to embrace simplicity and avoid unnecessary complexity in development projects.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Strange Loop Conference

Value and Waste in Software Engineering

Explore how waste enters software development through bad code reviews and technical debt, and how reducing it can create value.

• YouTube
• 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

Software Engineering vs Software Craftsmanship

Dave Farley argues that software engineering can take craftsmanship further by focusing on practices that produce software that works.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

Engineering for Software - How to Amplify Creativity

Explore how engineering thinking—through learning, testability, and experimentation—can amplify creativity in software work.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

Progress Toward an Engineering Discipline of Software

A comparison with civil engineering traces how software practice, architecture, and codified knowledge could mature into an engineering discipline.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Black Hat

Engineering Empathy - Adapting Software Engineering Principles and Process to Security

A role reversal between security and runtime engineers shows how security teams can scale by adopting software engineering principles, planning, feedback, and DevOps culture.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

Engineering for Software

Explores how testability and speed can serve as tools to amplify creativity in software engineering.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

Engineering for Software - How to Amplify Creativity

Shows how testability and speed can amplify creativity in software work.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Design Engineering: The Next Era of Software Design in the Age of AI

Explore the evolving intersection of design and programming in the AI era, examining how Design Engineering shapes software development's future through real experiences at GitHub.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NDC Conferences

The Empowered Software Engineer - Unlocking Engineering Potential

Empowered software engineers shift from shipping features to solving user problems by connecting engineering work with product, user, and organizational needs.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

How Flow Works in Software Engineering - Insights from Complexity Science

Using information theory and complexity science to explain how work flows through software value streams.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

GOTO Conferences

Is Software Engineering Real Engineering?

Interviews with engineers who have worked in both software and traditional fields reveal how the disciplines compare and what each can learn from the other.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Career Certificate

Software Design and Architecture

4049 ratings at Coursera

Apply design principles, patterns and architectures to build reusable, flexible software: object-oriented design, design patterns, software architecture, service-oriented architecture, and documenting designs in visual notation.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses

Software Engineering Immersive (Live Online)

330 ratings at CourseHorse

Build the skills of a Software Engineer or Full Stack Developer through Practical Programming's immersive course.

• CourseHorse
• 651 hours
• Self-Paced
• $10,995.00

Career Certificate

Mastering Software Development in R

1486 ratings at Coursera

Build data science tools in R: handle complex data with tidyverse, create custom visualizations with ggplot2, and package code as reusable, modular R packages.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 5 courses