Explore the Latest Updates and Boost Your Skills on Hyperskill

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We’re here to share some news: JetBrains Academy and Edvancium Updates on Hyperskill. Hyperskill is an online learning platform on a mission to empower learners with in-demand technical skills. Its project-based approach provides hands-on learning experiences, emphasizing practical problem-solving to ensure you’re ready for real-world challenges.

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Explore the Latest Updates on Hyperskill

New Additions on JetBrains Academy and Edvancium

You can find 55 new topics on JetBrains Academy and 6 new topics on Edvancium. Additionally, we’ve introduced 9 new projects and taken 9 projects out of beta. These updates cover various subjects, from Java and Kotlin to math and bioinformatics, ensuring you have access to diverse and up-to-date content.

JetBrains Academy Topics:

• Java:
  Setting up a server with HttpServer, Kryo
• Spring Boot: Events and listeners, Intro to H2 database, Spring Security architecture
• Scala:
  High-order functions
• Kotlin:
  Sockets, MockK, Flows: error handling, dispatching, Class delegation, hashCode and equals, Sealed class and interface
• Ktor:
  Koin for Ktor, CORS
• Jetpack Compose: Recomposition
• Python:
  Introduction to Functional Programming, Recursion in Functional Programming, Introduction to AstroPy
• Django: Forms, Validation
• Data Science

Instruments:
Additional feature scaling techniques in sklearn, Feature scaling in sklearn, Polynomial Regression in sklearn

Machine learning: Silhouette coefficient, Feature scaling

NLP:
OCR Implementation, Reading text from image, Information Retrieval and Question Answering, SARI, Text clustering, Topic modeling

• Frontend

HTML: Buttons
CSS: Grid rows and columns, Grid alignment: part 1, object-fit and object-position
JavaScript: Introduction in websocket, Deep Copying Objects, Map, Shallow Copying Objects

• Node.js: ECMAScript modules, Sending requests, Introduction to the HTTP module, Intro to assert module, Intro to path module
• Fundamentals

Essentials: Understanding JSON Web Tokens

JVM: Serial GC

SQL and Databases: CHECK constraint, CUBE, ROLLUP and GROUPING SETS, Data models, Array query operations, Importing and exporting data, SQLite dot commands

• System administration and DevOps:
  Customizing the on directive, Braces and parentheses, Introduction to Docker compose

JetBrains Academy Projects:

My First Project (Easy, Python, Beta)
Spell Checker (Challenging, Python, NLP, Beta)
Recipe Builder API (Challenging, Flask, Beta)
Above the Rim API (Challenging, Flask, Beta)
Last Pencil (Challenging, Java, Beta)
File Server (Challenging, Kotlin, Beta)
JSON Database (Challenging, Kotlin, Beta)
Simple Bank Manager (Challenging, Android, Beta)
File Janitor (Easy, Bash, Beta)

JetBrains Academy Projects are out of beta:

Amazing Prices (Hard, Frontend)
Dog Glossary (Hard, Frontend)
Maze Runner (Challenging, Kotlin)
Maze Runner (Challenging, Python)
Jeopardy! Question Answering Bot (Challenging, Python, NLP)
Learning Progress Tracker (Hard, Python)
HotKitchen (Challenging, Kotlin)
School of Wizards and Magic Wars (Medium, Python, SQL)
Duskers (Hard, Python)

Edvancium Topics:

Math: Binomial distribution
Bioinformatics: Nanopore sequencing
Biology: Default mode network, Gross anatomy, Hippocampus, Reticular formation

Conclusion

Stay tuned for more updates, and continue to expand your skillset with JetBrains Academy and Edvancium. We’re committed to providing you with a comprehensive learning experience to help you excel in your career.

Please note that projects marked as Beta are still in the early stages of testing. If you want to check out the Beta projects on Hyperskill, ensure the Beta-tester feature is on in your profile settings.

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Your Hyperskill team