Coursera · University of Michigan — Charles Russell Severance
Database Design and Basic SQL in PostgreSQL
Explore Michigan’s PostgreSQL course on psql, SQL operations, keys and relational models, with one-to-many and many-to-many database examples.
Explore software development courses for web, mobile, backend, and games, with practical guidance on choosing a first project.
Software development becomes easier to navigate when you choose something concrete to build. A website, mobile application, game, and backend service share ideas about data and control flow, but their tools and constraints differ. Start with the kind of software you want to understand.
Begin with one language and a small application. Learn to read errors, use version control, and test behavior before collecting frameworks. A broad bootcamp can provide structure; a focused tutorial is often better when you already know the fundamentals and need one missing part.
Finish a modest project that accepts input, handles an error, and saves or presents useful information. Explain its design and rebuild one part independently. That reveals gaps more clearly than counting completed videos.
Coursera · University of Michigan — Charles Russell Severance
Explore Michigan’s PostgreSQL course on psql, SQL operations, keys and relational models, with one-to-many and many-to-many database examples.
Coursera · IBM — Hima Vasudevan
Review IBM’s SQL course for relational tables, queries and Python database access, with an assignment and an additional advanced SQL module.
Coursera · Amazon Web Services — AWS Instructor
Explore AWS’s data-engineering foundations course on infrastructure, scaling, monitoring, authentication and networking considerations for data systems.
Coursera · Duke University — Noah Gift
Explore Duke’s Rust data-engineering course on collections, safety, concurrency, libraries and designing data-processing systems.
Coursera · DeepLearning.AI — Sean Barnes
Compare DeepLearning.AI’s preparation course for web data, APIs, cleaning, databases, validation and joins using Python and SQL.
Coursera · Microsoft — Microsoft
Review Microsoft’s course for Azure deployment, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, monitoring and Copilot-assisted scripts, with earlier certificate courses required.
Coursera · University of Michigan — Charles Russell Severance
Explore Michigan’s complete Django application course, adding row ownership, JavaScript, many-to-many relationships, JSON and search to a marketplace.
Coursera · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology — Kenneth Wai-Ting Leung
Compare HKUST’s beginner App Inventor course for Android apps, covering programming blocks, media, files, location and small application projects.
Coursera · University of Michigan — Michael Nebeling
Michigan compares XR development approaches and guides VR and AR scenes with WebXR and Unity, including accessibility, ethics and privacy.
Coursera · IBM — Upkar Lidder
Explore IBM’s Node.js and Express course covering server-side JavaScript, asynchronous I/O, npm, REST endpoints and a final backend project.