Microsoft is offering free online course on Building Your Azure Skills Toolkit. This course provides a fast-paced, hands-on tour of several cloud-powered features and integrates them within a single web app using an easy to follow scenario.
This self-paced course explores an array of different services, giving you the chance to learn just how easy it is to integrate Azure services within your apps and give them the power of the cloud. The course will start on June 30, 2017.
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Length: 5 weeks
Effort: 2-3 hours pw
Subject: Computer Science
Institution: Microsoft and edx
Languages: English
Price: Free
Certificate Available: Yes, Add a Verified Certificate for $49
Session: Course Starts on June 30, 2017
Providers’ Details
Microsoft is offering this online course via the edX platform. Microsoft is offering the course via renowned online platform edX. In this new connected world, Microsoft believes technology creates opportunity, and courses are designed to provide you with the core development skills needed to be successful in the cloud-first, mobile-first world.
About This Course
This course is part of the Microsoft Professional Program Certificate in Front-End Web Development.
To begin, you’ll create a web application using Angular and .NET Core. With your base app up and running, you’ll learn how to integrate Bing Search, in this case to find and retrieve images that you can display on your site. Next, you’ll add some artificial intelligence (AI) to your app by using Azure’s Computer Vision Cognitive Service to analyze and detect the objects within the images. You will use SQL Azure to store your metadata in a scalable database, and you will retrieve the data and display it using .NET Core Web API and Entity Framework Core. To complete the scenario, you will add Azure Search to enable quick retrieval of images based off of your own search terms. Finally, you’ll secure the entire application using Azure Active Directory B2C to enable secure access to your stored images.
Why Take This Course?
This course provides a fast-paced, hands-on tour of several cloud-powered features and integrates them within a single web app using an easy to follow scenario.
Learning Outcomes
- Azure Cognitive Services
- Active Directory B2C
- SQL Azure
- Azure Search
Instructors
Geoffrey Morgan
Geoffrey is a senior developer with Crank211, a company that specializes in designing and building next-level digital experiences.
Chris Howd
Chris is an engineer and software developer who has been working at Microsoft in various roles for the past 15 years.
Requirements
Basic programming skills are required. Experience programming in C, Java, JavaScript, or C# will be beneficial.
How To Join This Course
- Go to the course website link
- Create an edX account to SignUp
- Choose “Register Now” to get started.
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