10 free online courses next week

Sign up for courses on development, history, biology and other disciplines in the period from 22 to 28 January.

1. Fundamentals of development on C ++: yellow belt

start the course: January 22, 2018.
course duration6 weeks.
Area: Coursera.
Organizer: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, together with "by Yandex".
Tongue: Russian.
Is free without a certificate.

If you have already won White belt in C ++ and want to deepen their knowledge, be sure to sign up for a course, continue. You will get acquainted with integer types of C ++, pairs and tuples, function templates and much more. At the end the audience is waiting for the final project - the creation of a data warehouse with the ability to add, delete, and search.

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2. OS

start the course: January 2018.
The volume of the course5 modules.
Area"Stepik".
Organizer: Academic University (SPbAU RAS) in conjunction with the Computer Science Center.
Tongue: Russian.

Languages ​​C and C ++ is useful to you for the development of this course. The program - memory management topics, planning and multitasking, thread synchronization, user space and system calls. After listening to all the lectures, you can write a simple multi-tasking operating system.

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3. Introduction to iOS-development

start the course: January 22, 2018.
course duration6 weeks.
Area: Coursera.
Organizer: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in cooperation with e-Legion.
Tongue: Russian.
Is free without a certificate.

The course is dedicated to language development, Which created the majority of applications for iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS. It's called Swift. You will learn the basics of how to design (variables, classes, cycles, protocols), as well as with more complex topics (generics circuit associated types). As a result, you learn how to write efficient, beautiful and clear code.

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4. Web technology

start the course: January 2018.
The volume of the course3 module.
Area"Stepik".
Organizer: Mail. Ru Group.
Tongue: Russian.

Review course for the development of sites. You will learn how to make an application in Python, use the MVC-frameworks, learn HTML-layout of the page and immerse yourself in the web development topics.

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5. Why we post: anthropology, social media

start the course: January 22, 2018.
course duration7 weeks.
Area"Open education".
Organizer: High School of Economics.
Tongue: Russian.

At the heart of this course is the study of anthropology at University College London. Scientists led by Daniel Miller for fifteen months analyzed how social media are arranged in nine countries. The Higher School of Economics study complemented the Russian example.

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6. cultural journalism

start the course: January 2018.
The volume of the course4 lectures.
Area"Culture and creativity."
AuthorMaya Chaga, a British journalist.
Tongue: English.

Maya Chaga 25 years writing for The Guardian, Financial Times, Economist and other publications from around the world. She interviewed 12 Nobel laureates on literature. And in this short course explains what cultural journalism, how to prepare for an interview with the creator and how to format your text. English language course, but video lectures accompany the text materials in Russian.

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7. How to become more productive

start the course: January 2018.
course duration: 10 days.
Area: Highbrow.
AuthorDan Sylvester.
Tongue: English.

The course is designed in the form of email-mailing: within 10 days you will receive a letter in the mail with valuable advice. If you do not only read them, but also to follow the guidelines, you will identify the priority goal, to build an effective schedule and learn to focus on tasks.

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8. Music biology: why and what we like to hear

start the course: January 22, 2018.
course duration6 weeks.
Area: Coursera.
Organizer: Duke University.
Tongue: English.
Is free without a certificate.

How does the human hearing system? How we perceive sounds? Why music is pleasant to our ears, and why to create it using a limited set of sounds? As music affects the emotional state of a person? Answers to these and many other questions can be obtained by following this course.

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9. That hidden files

start the course: January 2018.
The volume of the course5 lectures.
Area"Arzamas".
Tongue: Russian.

Archive - a documented history. And if you are fond of this science, then you'll love this course. Due to archive data, you can learn about the secret love of the Empress Elizabeth, riddles in Brodsky and entertainment officers.

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10. Leningrad blockade

start the course: January 2018.
The volume of the course4 lectures.
Area"Arzamas".
Organizer: European University at Saint Petersburg.
Tongue: Russian.

January 27 will celebrate 74th day of the final lifting of the Leningrad blockade. Brush up on the history of the heroic defense of the city, two and a half years were left without food and fuel, will help the small course.

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