NEW Guided Projects on Coursera REVIEW

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** Top 10 Guided Projects on Coursera **

Let’s have a short look at top 10 Guided Projects ordered by popularity. All descriptions come from Coursera platform:

1. CREATE YOUR FIRST PYTHON PROGRAM
In this 2-hour long project-based course, you will learn the basics of Python programming language, and its basic syntax. Through hands on, practical experience, you will go through concepts like using the Terminal, and a Text Editor as a Python programmer, variables, functions, lists, conditional statements, for and while loops, and getting user input. You will then apply the concepts to create your first command line application to manage a To-Do List.

2. BUILD YOUR PORTFOLIO WEBSITE WITH HTML AND CSS
This 1-hour long project will take you step by step to create a portfolio website. You will learn the basic components of a website, and how to create simple contents using HTML (hypertext markup language) and CSS (cascading style sheets), and how to host it on a popular developer website called “GitHub” with your own subdomain name!

3. INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT
This course is designed to give you the fundamentals of Project Management. You will learn the basic principles of Project Management by managing a fundraising event for your local farmers market. You will designate responsible team members to help you, build a timeline and see the different ways that you can manage the project.

4. OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING WITH JAVA
In this project you will create a fun social media profile app for pets while learning the principles of object-oriented programming. By the end of the project, you will understand the 4 principles of object-oriented programming, write object-oriented code in Java, and be able to apply the same concepts to other object-oriented programming languages!

5. SPREADSHEETS FOR BEGINNERS USING GOOGLE SHEETS
This 2-hour long project-based course is an introduction to spreadsheets. We’ll be using Google Sheets in this project, which is the free spreadsheet program offered by Google. With that said, most of the concepts that you will learn in this project will be applicable to other spreadsheet programs, such as Microsoft Excel.

6. FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION WITH KERAS
In this 2-hour long project-based course, you will build and train a convolutional neural network (CNN) in Keras from scratch to recognize facial expressions.

7. INTRODUCTION TO PYTHON
Learning Python gives the programmer a wide variety of career paths to choose from. Python is an open-source (free) programming language that is used in web programming, data science, artificial intelligence, and many scientific applications. Learning Python allows the programmer to focus on solving problems, rather than focusing on syntax. Its relative size and simplified syntax give it an edge over languages like Java and C++, yet the abundance of libraries gives it the power needed to accomplish great things.

8. INTRODUCTION TO HTML
In this project, you will develop an HTML resource sheet and a very basic sample webpage. You will use a text editor called Notepad++ to write your code, and the Chrome browser to display the resulting webpage.

9. INTRODUCTION TO GOOGLE DOCS
In this project, you will use Google Docs to create a document. You will be able to format text by creating paragraph form and setting line spacing. You will also learn how to create headers and footers along with sub headers. Tables and charts will be used within the document. You will learn a couple of methods for inserting charts that automatically update within the document. A review of how to share the document and protect the document while sharing will also be covered in the project.

10. CUSTOM PREDICTION ROUTINE ON GOOGLE AI PLATFORM
In this 2-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to deploy, and use a model on Google’s AI Platform.