University of California, San Diego Courses

Human-Centered Design: an Introduction

6 ratings

Design technologies that bring people joy rather than frustration: do needfinding fieldwork, build paper and Wizard of Oz prototypes, and run heuristic evaluations.

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

Genome Sequencing (Bioinformatics II)

5 ratings

Assemble genomes from short DNA fragments using graph theory and Euler's theorem, sequence antibiotic peptides from mass spectra with brute force algorithms, and apply assembly tools to Staphylococcus data.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Gut Check: Exploring Your Microbiome

11 ratings

Explore the human microbiome: how microbes are sampled, sequenced and visualized, how gut microbes shape nutrition, immunity and stress, and findings from the American Gut Project.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Internet of Things: Setting Up Your DragonBoard™ Development Platform

5 ratings

Set up a DragonBoard 410c single board computer: flash Android and Ubuntu with adb and fastboot, configure Android Studio, rescue bricked boards, and build apps with the NDK.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Information Design

579 ratings at Coursera

Create user interfaces with rapid wireframes and mock-ups, applying typography, layout, color, internationalization, and responsive strategies across tablets, walls, and watches.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Algorithms on Strings

1090 ratings at Coursera

Learn key pattern matching algorithms: build tries, suffix trees and suffix arrays, apply the Burrows-Wheeler transform, and implement Knuth-Morris-Pratt for linear-time exact matching.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Algorithms on Graphs

2272 ratings at Coursera

Implement graph decomposition for directed and undirected graphs, breadth-first search, Dijkstra's and Bellman-Ford shortest paths, and Kruskal's and Prim's minimum spanning trees.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 9 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Drug Development

2432 ratings at Coursera

Learn how a drug moves through clinical development: Phase 1-3 trial design, IND filing, clinical study start-up, New Drug Applications, product labeling, and FDA/EMA approval.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Machine Learning Fundamentals

8 ratings

Understand machine learning's role in data-driven modeling, prediction, and decision-making.

• edX
• 10 weeks, 8-10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Introduction to Graph Theory

1073 ratings at Coursera

Learn graph theory through puzzles and algorithms: connected components, Eulerian and Hamiltonian cycles, spanning trees, colorings, Ramsey theory, network flows, and Nobel-winning stable matching.

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

Combinatorics and Probability

874 ratings at Coursera

Count without listing: use basic counting rules, binomial coefficients, and combinations with repetitions, then compute probabilities, work with random variables, and program an optimal dice-game strategy.

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

Mastering the Software Engineering Interview

555 ratings at Coursera

Practice for software engineering interviews: code live in a shared document, present past projects with the STAR model, and attack whiteboard problems with a six-step process.

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

Design Principles: an Introduction

1372 ratings at Coursera

Learn design principles behind intuitive interfaces: direct manipulation, mental models, visual and information design, then run and analyze controlled online experiments to compare designs.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Internet of Things: Communication Technologies

1596 ratings at Coursera

Build your own VoIP calling and messaging app on a DragonBoard 410c: manage sessions with SIP, discover users, and compare narrowband and wideband codecs like AMR.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Big Data Integration and Processing

2429 ratings at Coursera

Retrieve big data from Postgres, MongoDB and Aerospike, apply integration tools like Splunk and Datameer, and build processing pipelines with Apache Spark, MLlib and GraphX.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course